Pension Development Tutor

Role Profile: Additional Learning Needs (ALN) Tutor

Reports to: Additional Learning Needs (ALN) Manager

Benefits of working with t2 group:

• Home based role
• Laptop and mobile phone provided
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (increasing with length of service)
• Christmas & New Year shutdown period
• Pension scheme
• Specsavers scheme
• Access to 1000's of student discounts inc. Unidays, Student Beans and TOTUM
• £500 employee referral bonus scheme
• Enhanced sick pay & maternity reward vouchers
• Employee well-being and assistance programme
• Access to EV company car scheme
• Life assurance cover
• Your Birthday off
• Health Cash Plan - Including Health screening, virtual GP and many more benefits

Role Purpose:

As an Additional Learning Needs (ALN) Tutor, you will be responsible for providing support for apprentices with additional learning needs, disabilities, or barriers to learning. You will ensure that appropriate interventions, adjustments, and resources are in place and regularly reviewed with the learners to enable all learners to progress and achieve their qualifications. This role requires collaboration with tutors, employers, and external support agencies to provide a fully inclusive learning environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• To work with and motivate a caseload of learners as assigned by the ALN Manager
• To carry out regular ALN reviews with learners, provide additional support and ensure all activity is documented to support ALS funding claims
• Effective communication with tutors and the ALN manager regarding learner progress and any specific reasonable adjustments required for individual learners
• Support the implementation of strategies to improve accessibility and inclusivity in apprenticeship training
• Ability to carry out sensitive conversations with learners when delivering feedback from assessments
• To make referrals to the ALN Manager when specific profiles are required
• Systems to be updated to a high-quality level after each ALN review, using effective IT skills when using multiple systems
• To support the ALN Manager to run support, standardisation and drop-in sessions for tutors
• Support training and guidance to tutors on additional learning needs and the best practices for supporting apprentices with ALN
• To complete own CPD to aid a deeper understanding of ALN and effective ways to support and motivate learners
• Work closely with employers to ensure workplace adjustments are in place and promote inclusive learning environments
• Raise any safeguarding concerns to the Safeguarding Team in line with reporting procedures

Person Specification:

Using your professional and/or personal experience of ALN, and with a passion for supporting individuals with Additional Learning Needs, you will be able to motivate learners to achieve their goals and support them to achieve their qualification. You will take an individualised yet methodical and organised approach to supporting learners whilst ensuring attention to detail and delivering to the highest possible quality standards.

Qualifications and Experience - Essential:

• Experience in working with individuals with additional learning needs, ideally in an apprenticeship, education, or work-based learning setting
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across teams
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities

Qualifications and Experience - Desirable:

• A level 3 SEND qualification
• Experience in using learner management systems and tracking tools
• Knowledge of assistive technologies and accessibility tools
• Understanding of the apprenticeship framework
• Experience in using Cognassist assessment tools

Behaviours and Team Values:

• Understand what we do and why
• Customer Focus: Keeping the learner and employer experience at the heart of everything we do in line with our Mission and Brand Promise so that we meet our customer needs
• Passion: Displaying the energy and commitment necessary to deliver the best experience to learners, employers and wider business teams
• Tenacity: Displaying the urgency and drive to get things resolved and reach the best outcome for learners, employers and wider business teams with a can do approach
• Ownership: Taking accountability for your job role and your results. Being honest about the current situation and being proactive about changing it.
• Communication: Ensuring effective and clear communication with those who need to be consulted and informed in a considered and appropriate way
• Commitment: Delivering what we say we are going to do
• Collaboration: Working proactively and positively across teams to resolve issues, make improvements and deliver the best experience for learners, employers and wider business teams.
• Attention to detail: Ensuring the accuracy of what we do and report on, to make sure compliance and data integrity are maintained
• Efficiency: Identifying improvements in processes and proposing change where necessary working smarter to make a difference
• Growing people with the business: Developing yourself and others
• Celebrating Success: Recognition and reward

Additional Information:

You must have your own transport, a Broadband connection at home and car insurance covered by business use. All business mileage and expenses are covered by the company.

T2 is committed to providing a safe environment for all learners and employees. To find out more about our commitment to safeguarding please go to our t2 website.

NB. Your employment with the Company will be conditional upon receipt of a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and references.