Paragon Skills
Personal Tutor - Care (Bournemouth)
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Make a Real Difference to the Next Generation of Health & Social Care Professionals!
Location: Remote with travel for in-person learner observations in Bournemouth and South West, team meetings and 1:1s
Salary: Up to £32,000.00 for Level 2&3 plus performance-based bonuses
Working Hours: 36.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday) with part-time or flexible working options available
Are you an experienced Health & Social Care professional who is passionate about helping people learn, grow, and achieve their ambitions? At Paragon Skills, we're looking for an enthusiastic and learner-focused Personal Tutor - Health & Social Care to join our team. This is a fantastic opportunity to use your industry knowledge and teaching experience to coach and support a diverse caseload of learners working towards Health & Social Care qualifications up to Levels 2 and 3.
You'll combine your occupational expertise with outstanding teaching, coaching, and mentoring to create engaging learning experiences that help learners overcome barriers, build confidence, and successfully progress through their qualifications.
Key Responsibilities
- Coach, motivate, and support learners to achieve their Health & Social Care qualifications Level 2 and 3
- Plan and deliver engaging, interactive, and inspiring teaching and learning
- Adapt your delivery to meet the different needs of learners and employers
- Manage a caseload of learners, supporting achievement, retention, and progression
- Conduct planned learner and employer reviews in line with ESFA and Learner Journey requirements
- Provide constructive, timely, and impactful feedback
- Support workplace and off-the-job training using appropriate learning resources and digital technology
- Identify and remove barriers to learning and progression
- Provide information, advice, and guidance to help learners make informed decisions about their development
- Ensure learners have completed portfolios and are fully prepared for the EPA Gateway
- Maintain accurate and timely learner documentation and records on our BUD e-portfolio system
- Work collaboratively with Quality colleagues and other Personal Tutors to continuously improve teaching and learning
- Share best practice and contribute to continuous professional development
- Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people
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- Delivering Functional Skills (handled by our Functional Skills and Additional Learning Support Team)
- Generating new learners (managed by our BDM teams)
- Enrolling learners onto their chosen qualification (handled by our enrollment team)
- Delivery Workshops (handled by our Workshop Tutors and Elevate programme)
To see the full job description of this role, or to discuss in more detail, please contact Talent@knovia.co.uk.
Our Ideal Candidate
A confident communicator who is a passionate and inspiring educator who genuinely wants to make a difference to the Care sector. You'll be comfortable working independently, managing your own diary and workload, and using your initiative to achieve positive outcomes. You'll bring a solution-focused, creative, and can-do attitude, with the energy and confidence to motivate learners, build trusted relationships, and influence positive decisions, whilst executing an outstanding learner experience.
What Qualification and Experience We Are Looking For:
- Minimum Level 3 qualification in Health & Social Care, alongside relevant occupational experience
- Assessor qualification, such as TAQA, CAVA, A1, D32/D33, or equivalent
- Teaching qualification, such as AET, CET, PTLLS, or equivalent, would be advantageous
- GCSE Grade A-C in English and Maths, or equivalent
- Current or previous experience working within the Health & Social Care sector
- Experience delivering effective teaching and learning to a diverse range of Health & Social Care learners
- Experience managing a learner caseload and supporting learner recruitment and progression
- A proven ability to engage, motivate, and influence learners to achieve
- Experience identifying and removing barriers to progression
- Experience working to targets, deadlines, and performance expectations
- Knowledge of Safeguarding and Prevent
- Knowledge of End Point Assessment, Awarding Organisations, Funding Bodies, and Ofsted requirements
- Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and Power BI
Why Join Us?
If you're passionate about Health & Social Care, education, apprenticeships, coaching, and learner success, this is an opportunity to turn your industry experience into a career where you can have a lasting impact. You'll be part of a growing team focused on delivering an outstanding learner and employer experience, while helping people achieve qualifications that can transform their careers.
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Benefits and Perks of Being a Paragon Skills Colleague!
- 25 days annual leave - increasing with length of service and 8 bank holidays
- Holiday purchase scheme
- Up to £5,000 in performance-based bonuses
- Up to 3 days of paid volunteering leave and corporate conscience initiatives
- Recognition and long service awards to celebrate our colleagues'
- Perkbox - a suite of discounts, lifestyle benefits, and wellness tools
- 3% matched Employer Pension contribution
- In-person team meetings and 1:1s
- Enhanced Maternity leave after 2 years of service
- Income protection and Life Assurance
- Recommend a colleague incentive schemes, where you can benefit £500 for referring great people to work with us
- CPD and training opportunities
- 4pm Friday finish with flexible working opportunities available
- Flexible and supportive team with a great culture
- Employee Assistance Programme, with a dedicated People Team to support all colleagues
Ready to Make a Difference?
If you have the Health & Social Care experience, teaching and/or assessing expertise, and passion for developing people, we'd love to hear from you!!
We are a Disability Confident Employer and have a guaranteed interview scheme in place to ensure that nobody is overlooked or discriminated against because of their disability. If you meet the minimum criteria when you apply and you have informed us in your application that you have a disability, you will be guaranteed an interview for that role.
To promote and maintain an inclusive working environment, as part of your application process, we will ask you to share data on certain characteristics. These answers will not form part of the selection and recruitment process and will not be shared with anyone outside of the People Team.
Paragon Skills is committed to the safeguarding and wellbeing of our learners and colleagues and we implement robust safer recruitment practices to support this. Dependant on the role you are applying for, we may undertake a number of necessary checks to confirm you are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults, which may include a Disclosure and Barring Service check. We are also committed to promoting equality and inclusion throughout our colleague and learner populations.
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