Job Title: Senior Tutor
FSC grade: Team Leader
Based at: FSC Orielton (also working at Dale Fort as required)
Reports to: Education Team Leader as part of the Education Team
Responsible for: This post holds line management responsibility for up to 3 staff
Overall Job purpose:
The Senior Tutor will develop, plan and deliver ‘out-of-classroom learning’ activities to a wide ranging audience; engaging and enthusing students and assisting FSC achieve their goal of ‘Inspiring Environmental Understanding through first-hand experience’. The post holder will be expected to lead groups of all abilities in the natural environment, with the ability to provide an appropriate standard of care for our learners and also make a wide-ranging contribution to the work of this busy learning location in a leadership role.
The Core Values that we regard as essential for every member of staff include: a passion to deliver the highest standards of customer care; honesty and openness; an ability to work safely; a desire to show pride in all aspects of their work; a flexible approach with a willingness to adapt to changes within the learning location; and a commitment to inspiring environmental understanding through first-hand experience.
This is essentially an active role and will require the post-holder to be able to carry out duties associated with effectively managing groups in outdoor learning locations, which may be remote, whilst ensuring the health and safety of the group at all times, including carrying safety sacks.
Key Responsibilities:
Management
- Working under the direction of the Education Team Leader to provide team management as appropriate, including weekly and monthly forward planning, and leading daily briefings and team meetings
- Carrying out direct line management of some members of the education team (e.g. Education Assistants, HE Students Placements, Tutor apprentices), including carrying out personal development reviews in line with FSC procedures
- Health & Safety;
- Systems & procedures;
- Physical Resources;
- Organising and carrying out induction, coaching, competency sign-off and providing support and guidance for team members as appropriate
- Providing effective support to the ETL in relation to all or some of the following areas:
Teaching
- Delivering activities in a safe, effective and engaging manner, responding to the needs of the group by changing the pace and style of delivery as appropriate
- Setting benchmark standards for the team in teaching and learning styles and strategies - acting as a mentor to other team members
- Ensuring that - where appropriate - programmes have relevance to the National Curriculum for England and Wales and awarding body specifications
- Liaising with accompanying staff to ensure programmes meet their requirements
- Effectively integrating ICT into pre-planned activities
- Incorporating opportunities for the development of key skills within ‘out-of-classroom’ activities
Resource & Project Development
- Ensuring all resources are prepared and available for activities, producing plans for activities and identifying appropriate learning outcomes
- Working under the direction of the Education Team Leader to develop resources to support out-of-classroom learning experiences to a wide-ranging audience of formal and informal educational groups including:
- Specification-led programmes at Key-stage 4 and A/AS level in biology and geography (and related subjects)
- Key-stage 2 and 3 cross-curricular environmental programmes
- Informal leisure-learning programmes for adult and family groups
- Supporting other courses, e.g. university groups, PGCE, etc
- Supporting the Education Team Leader in the administration of the education team, and in the development of resources, lesson plans and schemes of work
- Managing resource expenditure as delegated
General
- Deputising for the Education Team Leader in their absence
- Complying with all relevant legislation / FSC Operating Codes of Practice
- Setting a high standard of customer service – meeting and greeting visiting staff, welcome talks, etc and ensuring that these are delivered effectively
- Being a key member of the learning location’s overnight duty and on-call system – this will involve staying on site on some evenings and overnight to deal with customer issues and respond to emergencies. As a key member of the senior on-call team you will also provide support to other duty staff.
- We have a number of vehicles which you may be asked to drive. To do so, you will need to be 21 years or over, have a full valid driving licence, to have been driving for at least two years, and undertake an internal assessment on commencement in the role.
- Subject to meeting certain criteria, you may also be required to drive our minibuses. If you do not hold D1 entitlement and have the appropriate driving experience/certification, you may be required to undertake the relevant training.
- Maintaining a high standard of customer service and ensuring the highest standards of quality are achieved in all duties carried out
- Maintaining a high standard of personal hygiene & personal appearance in accordance with FSC policies
- Working closely with other learning location staff to ensure that appropriate levels of service are maintained during absences and periods of high workload
- Attending staff meetings as well as FSC internal and external training as required, in order to share best practice and improve team and learning location performance, and participating fully in staff development activities (sometimes this may involve travel to other learning locations with the occasional overnight stay)
- Fulfilling your obligations under the FSC Behaviour Partnership
- Contributing to the positive environmental performance of the learning location
- Any other duties that may reasonably be required by the Head of Centre to ensure the smooth and efficient running of the learning location
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