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Job Description
Summary Of Position
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Role Title: Business Diploma Tutor
Department: FE Teaching and Learning
Salary: Competitive Salary
Hours of Work: 3 days per week- 24 hours
Contract Type: Permanent
Reporting to: L3 Business Diploma Coordinator
Location: Across BAJ sites
Purpose of the role
To be responsible for the learning and achievement of all learners you teach; whilst being accountable for achieving the highest possible standards in work and conduct. Have an impact on educational progress beyond your assigned pupils; and assist in the smooth running of the British Academy of Jewellery at all times. Undertake any other duties as appropriate to the post.
Teaching and learning responsibility
- Undertake a teaching program in business, ensuring high success rates by providing both academic and pastoral support to students
- Monitor progress and attendance, and maintain appropriate records
- Undertake planned delivery and provide feedback and guidance to students, ensuring high success rates
- Complete assessment of learner work to set IQA deadlines
- Produce lesson plans, support materials and other teaching related materials as required
- Undertake general course management responsibilities including admissions and placement support through student interviews as needed
- Ensure lessons, delivery and assessments meet with the standards set by awarding bodies, prime contractors and other organisations that monitor the Academy
- Ensure learners follow the policies provided to them
- Ensure the learners abide by health and safety rules
- Keep up to date with safeguarding and Prevent, and declarations made when required
- Monitor equality and diversity ensuring students feel safe in the college and receive equal opportunities
- Be a positive role model of health and safety for the learners, demonstrating consistently a positive attitude, values and behaviour, which are expected of learners
- Work collaboratively with others to develop effective professional relationships
- Support the L3 Business Coordinator in the planning and development of the curriculum and teaching programme for the course
- Liaise with the teaching team ensuring quality of delivery across the board, providing cover for other tutors when required
- Liaise with the quality team ensuring records are available for sampling and viewing when required
- Secure productive contacts and links with external organisations, employers and agencies that will benefit students and provide further opportunities for income generation and collaboration
- Act as a role model, mentor or consultant to colleagues as appropriate and encourage collaboration, cooperation and teamwork
- Engage in regular standardisation meetings and training to review the quality of the teaching and learning provision in line with the quality strategy
- Maintain a professional level of subject expertise by being aware of relevant industrial and technological developments in the field in addition to pedagogic developments
- Take part in regular training weeks and training sessions to enable continuous personal and professional development
Qualifications:
- Level 2 qualifications in both Literacy and Numeracy (or equivalent)
- Relevant qualifications in Business
- Relevant teaching and assessing, IV qualifications (or willingness to work towards) and commitment to complete further CPD or teacher training qualifications if required
- Awareness of the regulatory framework for FE academic awards and quality standards
- Relevant teaching experience in the subject of business
- Proven experience of teamwork
- Desirable: knowledge of the ATHE L3 Business Diploma
- Strong supervision and team working skills
- Suggests practical solutions to new or unique problems
- Communicate effectively orally and in writing adapting the message for a diverse audience in an inclusive and accessible way
- Innovative approach to course coordination, teaching, learning or professional practice to support excellent teaching, pedagogy and inclusivity
- Effective resource management and prioritisation to achieve long term objectives
- Good attention to detail
- Ability to foster constructive cross team collaboration
- Able to prioritise workload
- Contribute to improving or adapting provision to enhance the student experience or customer service
- Experience in promoting equality and diversity Safeguarding (where appropriate)
- Able to manage safeguarding issues as appropriate to the role
Our Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020)
Equal Opportunities
British Academy of Jewellery is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to diversity and inclusion. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential. The Academy has a diverse workforce that is representative at all job levels.