SEND Tutor

About the Role

BrightTeach SEND Tutors offer educational provision on an individual or small group basis to learners with a range of special educational needs. Tuition is offered across the ages from early years through to post 16.

Tutors will deliver bespoke and individualised lessons designed to support the child or young person’s presenting needs and fulfil agreed targets/outcomes. They will build rapport with complex children and young people, ensuring lessons engage, personalise and meet requirements set by learners’ assessments, such as EHCPs.

Tutors will also provide pastoral and mentoring support, collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams, and support learners during key transition points, sharing relevant information and helping them prepare for next steps.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver a personalised curriculum to learners with SEND on an individual and/or small group basis.
• Establish baseline attainments and prepare appropriate targets in line with learner‑identified outcomes (EHCP/PEP etc.).
• Plan the programme of study sessions.
• Monitor, review and evaluate progress from each session, using the BrightTeach monitoring system – LearnTrek. Produce termly reports and annual commentary, adhering to BrightTeach quality assurance.
• Contribute to reviewing processes such as Annual Review and PEP for Looked After Children.
• Implement supportive strategies – pastoral support, literacy programmes, trauma‑informed approaches – based on learner needs.
• Build and maintain successful relationships with learners and parents, communicating progress in a professional manner.
• Ensure individualised access to lesson content through appropriate preparation, clarification, and materials.
• Promote independent learning and develop study and organisational skills.
• Help build learner confidence and self‑esteem.
• Use clearly structured learning activities that interest and motivate learners and progress them.
• Communicate effectively and sensitively with learners.
• Promote inclusion of all learners in all activities.
• Advance learning through creative approaches, especially for 1:1 tuition.
• Address equality and inclusion issues, including bullying and harassment, following policies.

Qualifications & Experience

• Commitment to safeguarding and implementation of necessary policies.
• Experience in supporting children and young people with SEND and tolerance for missed education and disengagement.
• Demonstrated ability to build rapport and partnership of trust with learners.
• Proactive promotion of equality of opportunity, diversity, and inclusion.
• Compliance with organisational and legal requirements.
• Monitoring and evaluation of attendance, punctuality, and behaviour impacts.
• Accurate record‑keeping of attendance, behaviour, and participation via daily log.
• Ability to explore and agree actions to address learning issues with the SEND Manager.
• Experience in agreeing exit strategies and end goals with partners.
• Effective management of conflicting demands to maintain personal well‑being.
• Experience working with complex learners in multi‑disciplinary teams is an advantage.

Benefits & Working Conditions

This role is flexible, offering part‑time or full‑time opportunities. Competitive rates of pay: £30–£42 per hour, depending on qualifications, training, and years of experience working with SEND.