Vocational Tutor

Are you an experienced vocational professional with a passion for developing others? Whether your background is in construction, carpentry, plumbing, painting and decorating, maintenance, engineering, facilities management, warehousing, or another practical trade, we want to hear from you. We're looking for a Vocational Multi-Skills Tutor to deliver engaging, hands-on training programmes that equip learners with practical skills, recognised qualifications, and the confidence to progress into employment or further training. This is an opportunity to combine your industry expertise with teaching and mentoring, helping individuals develop valuable trade skills and positive workplace behaviours that can transform future opportunities. If you're new to teaching, support and training can be provided to help you develop your instructional skills.

About the Role

As a Vocational Multi-Skills Tutor, you will design and deliver practical learning sessions across a range of vocational disciplines, creating an engaging and supportive environment where learners can develop industry-relevant skills and achieve recognised qualifications. Training may include areas such as:

• Construction Multi-Skills
• Carpentry and Joinery
• Painting and Decorating
• Plumbing
• Construction
• Warehousing and Logistics
• Other vocational and trade-related subjects

You will play a key role in supporting learners to build confidence, develop practical competencies, and prepare for successful progression into employment, apprenticeships, or further education.

What You'll Be Doing

• Deliver engaging practical and classroom-based vocational training sessions.
• Support learners to develop technical skills across a range of trade disciplines.
• Assess learner progress and provide constructive feedback.
• Prepare learners for accredited qualifications and industry standards.
• Create a positive, inclusive, and motivating learning environment.
• Promote safe working practices and ensure compliance with health and safety requirements.
• Develop lesson plans, learning materials, and practical activities.
• Maintain accurate learner records, assessment documentation, and progress reports.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and individual support to help learners overcome barriers to learning.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues and external stakeholders to support learner success.

What We're Looking For

• Practical industry experience within construction, or a related vocational sector.
• A passion for developing others and sharing their knowledge.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• The ability to motivate and inspire learners from diverse backgrounds.
• Experience delivering training, coaching, mentoring, or supervising others (desirable but not essential).
• A recognised teaching or assessing qualification (desirable), or a willingness to work towards one.
• Relevant vocational qualifications and industry knowledge.
• A commitment to maintaining high standards of safety, quality, and learner support.

Why Join Us?

• Make a genuine difference by helping individuals develop skills for life and work.
• Use your vocational expertise in a rewarding and meaningful role.
• Access ongoing professional development and training opportunities.
• Join a supportive and collaborative team environment.
• Enjoy the opportunity to shape learners' futures while continuing to develop your own career.

If you're passionate about vocational education and want to use your industry experience to inspire the next generation of skilled workers, we'd love to hear from you.

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.