Experienced Literacy Tutor needed for Creative Youth Engagement Project
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Kilburn, London

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This role is an excellent opportunity for a capable literacy tutor to help vulnerable and sometimes challenging young people to achieve a literacy qualification within an informal learning setting.

Vital Regeneration's Create+ Programme aims to help NEET/at-risk of NEET young people to re-engage with education. This will be achieved through teaching them practical skills in music production or filmmaking as part of an 11-week course, embedding within it the development of literacy skills (working towards an OCR adult literacy basic skills qualification). You will form part of a growing team in an exciting, dynamic, and creative project that is fast expanding.

Our ideal candidate will have:
Experience of teaching literacy to NEET/at-risk of NEET teenagers, who are vulnerable and sometimes challenging
Experience in assessing young people's initial literacy levels, setting goals for improvement, and providing group and one-to-one and tutoring in a classroom setting with a view to the achievement of an appropriate basic skills qualification.
The ability to embed Adult Literacy into informal learning
The ability to provide empathetic support to young people and to capture soft outcomes

Find out more about Create + and Vital Regeneration at: www.vitalregeneration.org.

Pay:
£25/hour (teaching rate - you will be expected to carry out planning and to provide schemes of work and lesson plans within this rate)

£12/hour (non-teaching/meeting rate)

Location: Various outreach locations in the boroughs of Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham, Brent and Camden

Core hours: 5 - 10/ week (with the potential for extension in the near future)

Note: This post may involve both daytime and/or evening work.

Contract type: Fixed term, 10-12 weeks from April 2012, with possibility of extension.

Please note that the recruitment for this role is ongoing until the position is filled.