Role Profile: Additional Learning Needs (ALN) Tutor
Reports to: Additional Learning Needs (ALN) Manager
Salary and benefits
Salary: £30,000
Home based role with travel (mileage paid)
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
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
Doing whatever it takes to get it done
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. Being honest about challenges and reaching out where you need support.
Attention to detail
Ensuring the accuracy of what we do and report on, to make sure compliance and data integrity are maintained
Keeping it simple not complex
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
Identifying personal areas for development, both technical and behavioural to increase skill and stretch performance
Celebrating Success
Recognition and reward
Recognising great performance within and across teams – sharing experience and celebrating achievements
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