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Functional Skills Teacher-Maths
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Functional Skills Teacher – Maths
Location: HMP Dovegate, Staffordshire ST14 8XR Salary: £33,738 – £37,652 plus excellent benefits Hours: 08:15 AM – 5:00 PM, Monday to Friday (40 hours per week)
Ready to Impact a Better Future?
As a Functional Skills Teacher within our Justice and Immigration team, you will deliver high-quality teaching in Mathematics, empowering learners to build confidence, acquire essential skills, and progress toward brighter, more independent futures. Your work directly contributes to rehabilitation, enhancing literacy, numeracy, digital capability, and employability.
This role offers the opportunity to shape meaningful learning experiences, fostering change through purposeful teaching, inclusive practices, and unwavering commitment to learner development. You’ll help individuals unlock new opportunities, equipping them with the skills needed for successful reintegration into their communities.
What You’ll Do
As the Core Tutor – Maths, you will be entrusted with:
- Delivering interactive and inclusive Maths education, engaging learners effectively.
- Creating and maintaining Individual Learning Plans (ILPs), monitoring progress, and adapting support as necessary.
- Developing schemes of work and lesson plans, including flexible "roll-on, roll-off" programmes.
- Embedding employability skills, functional learning, and British Values into all teaching sessions.
- Contributing to curriculum development and improving existing learning resources.
- Managing accreditation, assessments, marking, and learner certification.
- Maintaining a safe, positive, and inclusive learning environment in line with prison protocols.
- Keeping accurate learner records, registers, ILPs, and exam documentation.
- Collaborating with education managers, prison staff, and external partners to enhance learning outcomes.
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Requirements
This role is ideal if you have:
- A minimum Level 3 teaching qualification (AET or equivalent) and Level 3 Assessor/Individualised Assessment & Guidance (IAG) qualifications.
- Experience delivering coaching in Mathematics.
- Strong planning, organisational, and communication skills.
- A commitment to inclusive practice, learner-centred support, and continuous improvement.
- Experience working in a structured environment with an understanding of safeguarding and compliance requirements.
Vetting and Checks
An Enhanced DBS clearance is mandatory for this role and covers:
- Spent and unspent convictions
- Cautions
- Relevant police information (in line with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and safeguarding policies)
Additionally, you will complete an Occupational Health Questionnaire to access necessary support for a successful transition into the role.
Why Join Serco?
Serco is recognised as one of the top 1% of international employers, offering:
** Arbeepraville Eligibility (Benefits)**
- Holidays: 23 days plus bank holidays (increasing to 25 days with tenure).
- Pension: Contributory pension scheme upload to 6%.
- Training & Development:
- Over 1,100 internal training courses.
- Full or partial funding available for apprenticeships (including Level 3 Team Leader and Level 5 Operations Manager).
- Mentoring opportunities and a focus on internal career progression.
- Health & Wellbeing:
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, 30% discount at Serco-leased leisure centres, and 24/7 virtual GP access.
- Discounts: Access to savings across 1,000+ retailers (including food, travel, leisure, and entertainment).
- Charitable Initiatives:
- Paid volunteering day.
- Tax-free charitable giving via the Payroll Giving Scheme.
- Opportunity to donate spare pay to the Serco People Fund Charity.
- Employee Networks: Supportive communities fostering inclusion and collaboration, encompassing:
- LGBTQIA+ employees
- Women professionals
- Working parents/carers
- People with disabilities
- Veterans
- Multicultural colleagues
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About Serco
At Serco, we believe that public service impacts lives. Our team of 50,000 professionals delivers essential services globally, spanning defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare, and citizen services—always committed to improving public life.
By joining Serco, you’ll benefit from:
- Global Employee Networks (SercoInspire, SercoEmbrace, SercoUnlimited, In@Serco), led by passionate diversity advocates.
Serco Human Resources priority is Fairness, Diversity, and Inclusion. We are proud to be a Gold Inclusive Employer and Disability Confident Leader, actively encouraging applications from individuals from under-represented groups. Flexible working discussions are welcome, and we’ll make reasonable adjustments as needed.
Serco also supports ** Ban the Box policy** (with exceptions due to individual role requirements). For assistance with applications, contact 0345 010 4000.
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