Personal Tutor - Clinical Health Care (South)

Paragon Skills is a top 5 training provider as rated by our apprentices and a Top 100 best places to work in the Times Top 100 list, and we have a true dedication to the Care and Education Sector!

Salary: Up to £33,000 per annum plus bonus

Location: Remote-based with learner observations across the South

Hours: 36.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)

As a Personal Tutor, you will plan and deliver inspirational and engaging teaching and learning experiences for our Adult Care and Senior Health Care Support Worker students up to L3. You will adapt your delivery to meet the needs of learners and employers, ensuring every individual receives an outstanding, supportive, and motivating experience.

Our mission is driven by our core values and we are dedicated to making learning engaging, accessible, and transformative equipping health and social care professionals with the tools they need to reach their full potential, make a positive impact, and inspire others in turn.

Key Responsibilities

• 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
  
  

We are proud to offer a suite of Paragon Choices which are optional benefits alongside our core benefits below!

• 25 days annual leave - increasing with length of service and 8 bank holidays
• Holiday purchase scheme
• 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 and with a great culture
• Employee Assistance Programme, with a dedicated People Team to support all colleagues
  
  

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.