Generalist Sessional Tutor

Change lives through education

Were looking for a passionate and committed Tutor to deliver high-quality education within a prison environment. This is a rewarding opportunity to support learners in developing the knowledge skills and confidence they need for rehabilitation employability and successful reintegration into society.

As a Tutor youll play a vital role in creating a positive learning experience that motivates learners and helps them achieve meaningful qualifications.

This is an hourly paid part-time role for casual work when required.

What youll be doing

Teaching & Learning

• Plan and deliver engaging inclusive lessons tailored to individual learner needs
• Create a positive and supportive classroom environment that encourages participation and achievement
• Differentiate teaching to support learners with diverse abilities and backgrounds
• Embed literacy numeracy digital skills and employability into lessons
• Use motivational approaches to improve learner engagement and attendance

Assessment & Progress

• Assess learners starting points and develop individual learning plans (ILPs)
• Conduct formative and summative assessments
• Monitor and track learner progress accurately
• Provide constructive feedback to support development and achievement
• Prepare learners for internal and external qualifications

Learner Support

• Act as a role model building confidence resilience and self-esteem
• Identify barriers to learning and work with support teams to address them
• Promote wellbeing personal development and rehabilitation
• Support learners in setting and achieving realistic education and career goals

Quality & Compliance

• Maintain accurate records registers and assessment documentation
• Contribute to quality assurance processes including observations and audits
• Ensure delivery meets awarding body and organisational standards
• Adhere to all safeguarding equality and health & safety requirements

Teamwork & Development

• Work collaboratively with colleagues prison staff and external partners
• Take part in training CPD and team meetings
• Contribute to curriculum development and sharing best practice
• Support wider team needs including occasional class cover

What were looking for

Essential

• Maths and English (Level 3 required for Functional Skills Tutors)
• Teaching qualification (Level 5 e.g. PGCE/Cert Ed) or willingness to work towards
• Strong teaching communication and classroom management skills
• Ability to engage and support learners with diverse needs
• Resilience and professionalism when working in challenging environments
• Knowledge of safeguarding equality and health & safety
• Experience delivering Functional Skills Maths & English (Entry 1Level 2)
• Strong administrative skills (ILPs registers progress tracking)

Desirable

• Internal Quality Assurance qualification (or willingness to achieve)
• Experience in prison FE or adult learning environments
• Knowledge of OFSTED EIF
• Experience with diagnostic tools such as BKSB
• Experience using digital learning tools to enhance delivery

Why join us

• Make a genuine difference by supporting rehabilitation through education
• Be part of a supportive and collaborative team
• Access ongoing professional development and training
• Deliver education that builds confidence skills and future opportunities

Our values

Were looking for people who live our core values:

• Customer First improving lives is at the heart of what we do
• True North acting with integrity and professionalism
• Own It taking accountability and responsibility
• Improve to be the best always striving to grow and develop

Apply now

If youre passionate about teaching and want to help transform lives through education wed love to hear from you.

Here at People Plus we make a positive difference to peoples lives every single day.

We use our experience to support hundreds of thousands of people each committed teams work across Britain to deliver a range of public services including employment support skills trainingprison 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 peoples 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 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 were trying to help and away from our direct work with people serving their sentences were 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.