Creative Writing Tutor in Newmarket

The Role

You will deliver engaging creative writing sessions, working with small groups of prison-based learners to develop their confidence, communication skills, and creative expression while supporting them in achieving their long-term goals and aspirations. As a Creative Writing Tutor, you will create a supportive and inspiring learning environment, ensuring that individual learning plans are in place and that appropriate guidance and encouragement are provided throughout the programme. You will deliver high-quality, inclusive sessions that motivate learners, nurture creativity, and help individuals realise their potential through writing.

What are we looking for?

• Level 3 English qualification or equivalent
• Strong experience in creative writing, literature, publishing, or a related field
• Experience delivering teaching, tutoring, workshops, or training
• A teaching or assessing qualification is desirable
• Ability to use a wide range of engaging and inclusive teaching methods
• Passion for supporting learners from diverse backgrounds to build confidence and skills through creative expression

If you do not currently hold a teaching or assessing qualification, we can support you in achieving the appropriate qualifications and assessments as part of your probationary period. This is a part-time role working 18.5 hours per week.

If you would like to speak to the recruitment team before applying, please email any questions and a member of the team will get back to you. If you wish to apply, please use the Apply Now button, as applications cannot be accepted via email. Please include your current salary and desired salary within your application. Salaries above the advertised band may be considered depending on previous skills and experience.

Who We Are

Here at People Plus, we make a positive difference to people's lives every single day. We use our experience to support hundreds of thousands of people each year. Our committed teams work across Britain to deliver a range of public services, including employment support, skills training, prison education, starting a business, and support to help employers grow.

To put it simply, we:

• Support people to find and keep jobs
• Help people to set up their own businesses
• Deliver skills training to further people's careers
• Work with employers to build a skilled and happy workforce
• Rehabilitate people with convictions
• Tackle the root causes of offending
• Support carers

We are extremely proud to be a Gold accredited Investors in People organisation. This demonstrates our commitment to creating the very best environment and culture for our colleagues to succeed and thrive. We are committed to transforming the lives of people with convictions through our work in prisons. Our services have been designed to tackle the underlying causes of offending behaviour so people can make positive changes to their lives.

With more than 500 people working to support people with convictions in custody and in the community, we bring passion, experience and innovation to public sector rehabilitation services. We also work with specialist partner organisations to help people move away from their past and look forward to a brighter future. All of our services are designed in partnership with the people who we're trying to help and away from our direct work with people serving their sentences, we're working hard to change attitudes towards people who can often be tarnished unfairly following criminal convictions.

Our Social Recruitment Framework brings together organisations to tackle any pre-conceived ideas about hiring people who have previously been involved in crime. We also work with employers on the Ban the Box initiative to support fair and equal recruitment processes and have engaged industry to influence our employer-led curriculum delivered to our learners.