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They are the sixth-largest provider of specialist educational services in the country, supporting over 900 children and young people, and employing over 1,000 staff.
Location: Minehead, Somerset
Salary: £26,941.60 - £31,406.21 (FTE £29,120 - £33,945.60) Depending on experience and qualifications
Hours: 40 hours per week. Contract: Term time plus additional days and training (42 weeks per year)
Your Skills/Qualification/Experience
- Level 2 in English & Maths
- City and Guilds (Or other recognised awarding body) Hospitality and Catering Level 2 or equivalent
- Level 3 desirable or willing to work towards
- Level 4 certificate in Education (desirable or willing to work towards)
- Experience of working in a hospitality catering setting.
- Experience in vocational education (desirable).
- Experience of working in a team setting.
The main purpose of the role:
As one of the Chef Tutors your role is to plan, prepare, deliver and evaluate inspiring, engaging and individualised Food Preparation sessions of the highest quality that challenge and stretch every student.
Your role is to help achieve our mission which is to equip young adults with learning disabilities to find sustainable employment in the hospitality sector and to live independently.
Always promote a professional attitude and approach with students and learner support practitioners, to support students to develop the skills required to be 'work ready, life ready.
Key duties:
- Effectively and professionally plan, prepare and resource highly individualised sessions of the highest quality, including those sessions where you may be absent, according to the published scheme of work.
- Deliver professional, inspiring, and engaging sessions of the highest quality that challenge and stretch every student, and in which all students are motivated and engaged throughout. We expect every tutor to be fully always engaged in the session without exception.
- Plan and prepare robust and professional assessments and ensure that all tracking (including baselining, target setting and review) and reports associated with these are completed accurately, efficiently, and in a timely manner, and that any records are kept up to date.
- All tutors must be familiar with, and actively use the principles of RARPA (Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement).
- Work professionally and collaboratively with all colleagues and teams across the Academy, including the Therapy team and House Managers, to analyse student performance and ensure that all students make progress commensurate with their ability.
- Where underachievement is identified appropriate strategies should be implemented immediately and where overachievement is identified, targets should be reviewed, and further challenges agreed within teams and set.
- Ensure that all students receive professional, timely and effective feedback, with appropriate strategies (next steps) to improve their performance, and that such discussions are evidenced through effective and professional record keeping (Evaluations, Tutorials, Reviews).
- Prepare, direct and lead Learning Support Practitioners (LSP) within your session, and to actively always promote a professional attitude and approach with the LSP. Ensure that LSPs (Learner Support Practitioner) contribute throughout the session.
Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required.
Benefits:
- Full training and continued support
- Opportunity to gain qualifications, which will be funded by us!
- 10% off accommodation, hot drinks and food at the Hotel
- Life assurance and Enhanced pension scheme (from October)
- Health cash back plan
- Car lease scheme
- Bike to work scheme
- Perk box
- Free parking
School Staffing Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment business for this position.
Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
As a result of the volume of applications, If we have not contacted you within two weeks of your application being received, then regretfully your application will not be taken forward on this occasion.