Cover Tutor

Location: HMP Fosse Way, Leicester, LE18 4TN

Salary: £28,000 – £34,000 depending on experience

Schedule: 40 hours per week, permanent

Ready to impact a better future? As a Cover Tutor in our HMP Fosse Way team, you’ll support learners across a range of vocational subjects, helping them build skills that create real opportunities for their futures. You’ll step in where needed to maintain consistent, high‑quality learning, ensuring every learner feels supported to grow and stay on track with their ambitions. This role plays an important part in helping people develop confidence, gain meaningful qualifications, and prepare for a better future beyond custody. Your work will make a positive impact on individuals, their families, and wider communities.

What you’ll do as a Cover Tutor

• Deliver learning sessions across a range of vocational subjects, providing cover to maintain continuity and quality when colleagues are unavailable. Areas to cover include: Horticulture, Industrial Cleaning, Gym, Hospitality Enterprise, Creative Craft – Textiles, Health and Nutrition, Fire Safety, Health and Safety, Food Safety, Vocational Assessing – TAQA 3.
• Support learners in developing practical skills, knowledge, and workplace behaviours aligned to course requirements and long‑term goals.
• Maintain accurate records of attendance, progress, achievements, assessments, and Individual Learning Plans.
• Provide constructive feedback and guidance to help learners progress and stay motivated.
• Ensure awarding‑body standards are met and support the accreditation and certification process.
• Promote safe working practices, encouraging learners to value tools, equipment, and shared learning spaces.

Does this sound like you? You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have…

• Level 2 Maths and English, or equivalent.
• Experience delivering training in any setting (education, workplace, or community).
• A teaching or assessing qualification (such as Level 3 Award in Education and Training or TAQA Level 3) – desirable but not essential.
• The flexibility and confidence to deliver learning across a variety of subjects using engaging teaching methods.

If you don’t currently hold a teaching or assessing qualification, we’ll support you to achieve this as part of your probationary period.

Vetting and checks: An Enhanced DBS check is required for this role. This includes spent and unspent convictions, cautions, and any relevant information held by local police, in accordance with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and safeguarding requirements. You will also complete an Occupational Health Questionnaire to allow us to provide any support needed for you to succeed in the role.

Discover all you need to keep growing

We’re one of the top 1% of international employers, so you can have confidence you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with leaders you can count on to help you achieve your goals. From mentoring and training to our focus on internal progression, we’re proud to offer clear development opportunities – and the support and tools to help you seize them.

What we offer

• Holidays: 31 days including bank holidays
• Pension: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
• Training and development: Over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships (including L3 Team Leader and L5 Operations Manager apprenticeships), mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression
• Health and wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres, and 24/7 access to a virtual GP service
• Discounts: Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel
• Charity: Paid volunteering day, tax‑free charitable giving through Payroll Giving Scheme, donate your pennies from your monthly pay to the Serco People Fund Charity
• Employee networks: Our networks support inclusion and connection by providing spaces for collaboration, learning, and belonging. They represent and empower all our colleagues including LGBTQIA+ employees, women, parents and carers, people with disabilities, veterans, and people from all cultural backgrounds.

About Serco

At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.

By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging. At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leaders and holders of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview. At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required).