Trainer Tutor - The Forward Trust : Job Details

Trainer/Tutor

Location: Gillingham

Salary: £29,292 -£35,000 per annum

The Forward Trust is a fast-growing Matrix Standard, ERSA Employability Awards 2020 Highly Commended vocational training, skills and employability provider. We are delivering ESFA (Adult Education Provision). As part of our growth plans including Adult Education Budget, we are looking for experienced, enthusiastic and committed Trainer/Tutor to deliver amazing vocational training, teaching, assessment, employability skills and customer service skills to our learners.

What you will be doing?

As Trainers working to our Operational Manager you will teach, educate, assess and provide pastoral support to our learners, often unemployed or NEET and ensure they complete their qualifications with us and progress on their career journeys into work, apprenticeships or higher-level studies. You will be part of a team that supported over 300 learners or clients in Kent, working with often challenging learners including those with a low level of prior education. Our services in 2020 produced overall achievement rates of 90% plus. You will also work on our One File, Skills Forward, Kudos AD and PICS systems and want to achieve high standards of compliance and quality. We want Trainers who do more than just `tick boxes' or just go through the motions. We want Trainers who will inspire and motivate our learners and expect great things from them.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for energetic, enthusiastic individuals with experience of teaching and training in a post 16 setting. It will be a bonus if you have worked on ESFA, devolved AEB, DWP or equivalent skills/ employability payment by results contracts. As a Trainer you must be committed to delivering high quality information, advice and guidance and progressing clients or learners into good quality employment, apprenticeships and Further Education, that will help them succeed in their lives. You must be able to work collaboratively and creatively with our Quality and Compliance and employer engagement teams.

What we offer

• Training and development opportunities
• Flexible working
• Simply Health Cashback Scheme (Optional)
• £90 per month External Therapy Allowance
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Crisis Loan Scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata'd for part time employees)
• Access to Blue Light Card
• 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
• Contributory Pension Scheme - Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
• Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
• Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for the Forward Trust, please click apply to be redirected to their website to complete your application.