Functional Skills Tutor

Job summary

To provide support to the Apprenticeship team in the delivery of apprenticeship programmes using various functional skills educational tools/ resources.

To lead on exam invigilation,devise and develop relevant functional skills education resources/ materials and provide teaching, feedback and support to learners.

To provide timely reports to all relevant external Information systems and provide the Apprenticeship team and managers with informed progress reports.

To support learners with a focus on the development, support and timely achievement of functional skills as part of the apprenticeship qualification.

Main duties of the job

Support with the embedding of functional skills into taught sessions on practice based topics

To complete tasks as delegated by the Quality Assurance Manager in connection with the successful running of the apprenticeship programmes.

To teach and assess Functional skills English/ Mathson the apprenticeship programmes including the development and maintenance of schemes of work and lesson plans which should be updated on a regular basis

To support the timely achievement of apprenticeships and take responsibility for the Functional Skills components

To support the apprenticeship delivery team within curriculum areas to embed Functional Skills in schemes of work and lesson plans.

To devise a programme of learning (scheme of work) with appropriate effective teaching and learning strategies, resources and assessments.

To maintain attendance registers, records of progress and ensure Learners are correctly enrolled with the Trust and Awarding Bodies.

To provide classroom assistance to the Apprenticeship Assessors with learners particularly those that require additional one to one support or functional skills training.

To support other apprenticeship team members in understanding the individual's duties, to enable appropriate cover. To contribute to the Induction of new staff to develop knowledge and skills for their role.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.