Functional Skills Tutor - Term Time - Special Needs Position

Woodpecker Court, Dover

• Ref:KCC886-7916-30T
• Posted:13/06/2025
• Pay:Main tutor pay scale
• Start Date:Sept 2025
• App Close Date:27/06/2025 at 20:00
• Interviews:WC - 30/06/2025

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Where learning meets the outdoors

Are you ready to inspire young people in a truly unique setting? At Woodpecker Court, we’re looking for a passionate and proactive Tutor / Work Experience & Community Support person to join our dynamic team and help shape the futures of post-16 students with Special Educational Needs (SEN).

This is more than a teaching role — it’s an opportunity to be part of a vibrant, outdoor-based learning community where education is brought to life through experience.

As a Tutor at Woodpecker Court you will

• work with post 16 SEN students and will deliver well-structured, engaging lessons tailored to individual student needs.
• Inspire and motivate students to achieve their full potential.
• Promote the values and ethos of Woodpecker Court in every lesson.
• Be comfortable working outdoors all year round

In your community support role, you will:

• Build and maintain partnerships with local employers and community organisations.
• Source and coordinate meaningful work experience placements for students.
• Write funding applications to support the growth of our CIC initiatives.
• Develop community-based activities that enrich the student experience

Woodpecker Court is proud to be an Ofsted Outstanding education provider. We have a holistic and student-centred approach all within our peaceful woodland setting. 

This position of for 40 hours a week and is a term time only role (39 weeks per year) with an additional mandatory 5 staff development days. 

Woodpecker Court is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS Disclosure, satisfactory references and pre-employment health screening

If you're ready to make a meaningful impact in a unique and supportive setting, we’d love to hear from you.

For further information about our provision please visit our website - www.woodpeckercourt.co.uk 

To apply please complete the application form and return with any supporting document to personnel@woodpeckercourt.com 

Information about the school

Woodpecker Court is a specialist education provider with specialist post 16 status. We are set in a rural location. We believe that every student is different and treated as an individual and therefore vary our practices to support them holistically. We aim to improve outcomes by providing all of our students with the necessary skills to equip them to sustain their onward destination after leaving us. We have a calm, safe and friendly environment that all of our students together as a community maintain.

We offer our post 16 courses in Land based studies, Animal Care, Catering, or Occupational studies, alongside functional skills English, Maths and Digital Skills.
Many post 16 vulnerable learner programmes fail because the delivery is formal in a classroom. This has not worked for the previous eleven years, so why repeat the process? Block by block, we will enable a young person to tolerate then work with others, show resilience to failure and bad weather. They can have the time and space to express their frustrations in the outdoors. They can fail safely, then learn to succeed. They can develop good peer and staff relationships, and maintain them over time. Then, and only then, do we deliver the formal learning because then students are ready to achieve. Our outdoor experiences are explicitly linked to formal learning objectives. For example, quantities of animal feed are linked to profit margins, having an impact upon Maths.

We provide engagement programmes for learners aged 11-16 by working collaboratively with local schools. Our programmes are run in the great outdoors from our 15 acre site that encompasses woodland, paddocks, classrooms, workshops and at the heart of our community our parachuted fire circles. These engagement programmes offer the chance for schools to prevent exclusion and promote re-engagement by changing the environment completely around the young person. We develop resilience, self-esteem and positivity through introducing routines.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Dawn Fisher
• Address:45 Wigmore Lane, Eythorne, Dover, Kent, CT15 4BF
• Telephone: 01304 830958
• Email: personnel@woodpeckercourt.com

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