Employee Job Description
Name:
Position: GCSE ICT/Welsh Baccalaureate Tutor
Responsible to: Schools Provision Manager
Purpose & aim
To develop and deliver an innovative and engaging programme across all of our academies, working towards
the completion of the Foundation Welsh Baccalaureate and GCSE ICT qualifications.
Key duties and responsibilities
Professional Attributes:
 Have high expectations of learners with commitment to ensuring they achieve their full educational
potential; establishing fair, respectful, trusting, supportive and constructive relationships.
 Communicate effectively with learners, colleagues, parents and carers to convey timely and relevant
information about attainment, progress and well-being.
 Be able to evaluate own performance and commit to opportunities for professional development.
 Demonstrate a creative and constructively critical approach to innovation; adapting practice where
benefits and improvements are identified.
Professional Knowledge & Understanding:
 Hold a relevant teaching qualification and have had experience in the delivery of GCSE ICT and/or
Welsh Baccaulareate.
 Have a good and up-to-date knowledge and understanding of a range of teaching, learning and
behaviour management strategies and know how to use and adapt them, including how to personalise
learning to provide opportunities for all learners to achieve their full potential.
 Know the assessment requirements and arrangements for the subjects/curriculum areas they teach;
including those relating to public examinations and qualifications.
 Know a range of approaches to assessment, including the importance of formative assessment.
Professional Skills:
 Be able to develop a varied and engaging ICT curriculum catering for KS4 learners on GCSE provision.
 Be able to support the wider delivery team with regards to embedding digital literacy within sessions.
 Deliver challenging, well-organised lessons and sequences of lessons using an appropriate range of
teaching strategies and resources, including online/e-learning, meeting learner needs and taking count
of diversity, equality and inclusion.
 Manage the learning of individuals and groups effectively, modifying teaching appropriately to suit the
stage of the lesson and the needs of the learners therein.
 Teach engaging and motivating lessons informed by well grounded expectations of learners,
underpinned by the learner standards.
 Make effective use of observation, assessment, monitoring and recording strategies as a basis for
setting challenging learning objectives and monitoring learner progress and attainment in line with
individual’s behavior and educational plans.
 Support with IQA processes when required, to include participating in the peer observation process.
 Establish a safe and purposeful learning environment which allowing learners to feel safe and
sufficiently confident to make an active contribution to learning and ACT Schools.
 Manage learner behaviour constructively by establishing and maintaining a clear and positive
framework for classroom discipline, in line with ACT Learner Standards Schools’ Behaviour Policy.
 To adhere to and promote ACT’s environmental practices.
 Any other duties as requested by your Coordinator or Manager, which may be necessary from time to
time.
Desirable:
 Team Teach trained or willingness to learn.
 Relevant experience of working with learners in alternative environments.
 Experience of working with learners with EBD, ASD, ADHD, ADD and ALN.
Personal and other duties and responsibilities
1. To actively keep updated with the company’s services and programmes.
2. To develop yourself by attending courses, meetings, training events, workshops and seminars, in order
to not only develop yourself but also the company.
3. To demonstrate clear written and verbal communication skills including report writing skills.
4. To be highly self-motivated and organised.
5. To ensure effective customer care skills.
6. A recognition and regard for observing confidentiality.
7. The capacity to work as part of a team.
8. An ability to work on own initiative and meet set timescales.
9. General housekeeping duties.
10. To display ACT core values at all times.
All employees have a responsibility for ensuring they undertake their duties in full accordance with the
company policies and procedures.
Equality and Diversity
All employees must ensure equality of opportunity and must not discriminate against learners/employers or
potential learners/employers, visitors, colleagues by reason of their age, disability, gender, race, religion or
sexual orientation. It is the responsibility of employees to promote equal opportunity and recognition of
diversity on behalf of the company throughout the workplace.
Health and Safety
All employees have a legal duty of care to take reasonable care for the health and safety of themselves, and of
other persons. All employees have a responsibility to cooperate and report anything that may affect one’s
health and safety. No person shall intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided in the
interests of health, safety or welfare.
Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship
All employees have a duty of care to promote the seven key themes within the company and to our
customers; identity and culture, the natural environment, wealth and poverty, health, climate change,
consumption and waste and choices and decisions.
Welsh Language
Where reasonable to do so, employees are asked to encourage the use of Welsh language in the workplace,
and assist the company in developing its Welsh Language Policy.
For full information regarding the above, and all other, company’s policies and procedures, please
refer to your employee handbook.
This job description is intended to be a general guide to the duties relevant to the post and
should not be seen as an inflexible specification.
Due to the culture and nature of the services ACT provides, job roles and duties may often
change in line with the company’s objectives, priorities and contracts. Where a change of job role
is necessary, a Manager or Senior Manager will discuss the change of role with you, and where
necessary you will be given a new job description.
Job description agreed by employee:
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