Personal Tutor - Adult Clinical Care (West Midlands)

Paragon Skills is a top 5 training provider, as rated by our apprentices, and one of The Sunday Times Top 100 Best Places to Work. We're passionate about supporting the Care and Education sectors and making a real difference through high-quality learning and development.

Salary: Up to £32,000 per annum plus bonus

Location: Remote-based with learner observations across the West Midlands, including Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley and surrounding areas.

Hours: 36.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)

As a Personal Tutor, you'll deliver engaging and inspiring learning experiences for Adult Care and Senior Healthcare Support Worker apprentices up to Level 3. You'll work closely with learners and employers, tailoring your approach to individual needs and helping every apprentice stay motivated, develop their skills, and achieve their goals.

At Paragon Skills, we're committed to making learning accessible, practical, and impactful. Guided by our values, we support health and social care professionals to grow their knowledge, build confidence, and progress in their careers, helping them make a lasting difference to the people they support every day.

Key Responsibilities

• You'll support Adult Care apprentices across Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton and the wider West Midlands region.
• Motivate and encourage learners to progress and achieve their Health & Social Care qualifications through outstanding teaching and learning
• Retain learners and employers by delivering consistent, highquality service in line with our core values
• Support the learning process through accessible learning resources, workshops, and workplace onthejob training
• Plan engaging, interactive, and inspiring teaching and learning sessions through a variety of methods, ensuring active learning is present and recorded
• Provide impactful and constructive feedback, ensuring all documentation is completed accurately and in a timely manner
  
  

Essential Experience & Background

• Strong occupational background in a senior care or clinical environment (such as a Senior Health Care Support Worker or Senior Carer).
• Competency and experience of working in a hospital / clinical environment with experience supporting adults in clinical environments
• Experience supporting learners or mentoring colleagues within a care setting
• Understanding of adult care standards, safeguarding, personcentred practice, and regulatory frameworks
  
  

Teaching & Delivery Skills

• Experience delivering blended learning (online and facetoface)
• Ability to support practice, portfolio development, and learner progress reviews
• Understanding of apprenticeship delivery, including KSB mapping and EPA requirements
• Ability to plan engaging, interactive sessions that promote active learning
• Strong communication skills with the ability to motivate and inspire learners
  
  

Qualifications

• Minimum Level 3 in Clinical Healthcare qualification or NVQ in Health and Social Care
• Assessor Qualification: Minimum Level 3 (CAVA, TAQA, D32, A1, V1)
• Teaching qualification (e.g. PTLLS, AET, PGCE, CertEd) or equivalent experience
• Occupational competency with extensive experience in adult care or senior support roles
• Familiarity with EndPoint Assessment (EPA)
• Ability to manage your own caseload
• Access to a car and willingness to travel for learner observations
• Proven track record of delivering outstanding teaching and learning
• Strong understanding of adult care legislation, safeguarding, and best practice
  
  

Why Join Paragon Skills?

Core Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (this includes a Christmas Shutdown and your birthday off).
• Additional annual leave with length of service.
• Holiday purchase scheme.
• 4pm finish every Friday.
• Flexible working options.
• Up to 3 days paid volunteering leave.
• Perkbox discounts, lifestyle benefits and wellbeing tools.
• 3% matched employer pension contribution.
• Enhanced maternity benefits after two years' service.
• Income protection and life assurance.
• £500 employee referral scheme.
• Ongoing CPD and development opportunities.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• A supportive and collaborative culture where people genuinely enjoy working together.
  
  

The Knovia Group is committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the welfare of learners, children, young people and vulnerable adults. Safeguarding is everyone's responsibility.

We expect all colleagues to share this commitment and to contribute to a culture where people feel safe, respected and able to achieve their potential. As part of our safer recruitment processes, appropriate pre-employment checks, including DBS, right to work, reference and social media checks where required, will be undertaken.

We're 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.

If you're passionate about developing the future workforce of the Care sector and want to join an award-winning training provider that puts learners and colleagues first, we'd love to hear from you.