Front of House Lead Tutor

Overview and Responsibilities

Front of House Lead Tutor – Aurora Foxes

Location: Minehead, Somerset

Salary: £26,941.60 - £31,406.21 (FTE £29,120.00 - £33,945.60)

Hours: 40 Hours per week – Term time only

Welcome to Aurora Foxes, a specialist college and training hotel for young people with learning disabilities, situated in the friendly seaside town of Minehead. Foxes is a very special place.

We believe in changing lives and giving our students the skills, knowledge, and confidence to successfully shape their own future. Our aim is to equip our young adults with the life and hospitality skills to become work ready, life ready.

The main purpose of the role:

As our Front of House Lead Tutor you will be expected to plan, prepare, deliver, and evaluate inspiring, engaging, and individualised sessions of the highest quality that challenge and stretch every student.

As a hotel lead tutor, you will be the manager on shift and will respond to any customer queries, business and student needs and support and manage your team. As a hotel lead you will line manage education support staff ensuring all HR processes are up to date and standards are set and maintained across the hotel.

All tutors will be required to support the students professionally, effectively, and sensitively in their learning, and manage student behaviour, seeking further advice and guidance where appropriate. It's important that all students make progress in each session and that this is recorded, evidenced, and evaluated effectively and efficiently.

The role will you working collaboratively and professionally as part of the Vocational Education and Transition Teams.

Key duties:

• Effectively and professionally plan, prepare and resource highly individualised sessions of the highest quality, including those sessions where you may be absent, according to the published scheme of work.
• Work with the Hospitality Programme lead to ensure all administration and development of Schemes of work, session plans, student risk assessments and reports are up to date, challenging and completed in line with the organisational standards.
• Assist the Hospitality Programme lead in ensuring the hotel education team are tracking student progress and implementing action plans for students who are not on track.
• Mentor and support the front of house team.
• Professionally and effectively manage a team. This will include; supervisions, appraisals, performance management and ensuring all paperwork is completed and sent to HR in a timely manner.
• Complete high quality witness statements for the students NVQ/E3, to have an in-depth knowledge of the NVQ/E3 and the criteria within this and ensure all sessions are meeting the expectations for the qualification.
• You will be expected to attend student review meetings with local authorities and external stakeholders and be a positive representation of the college. To ensure your knowledge of the students is accurate and any information given is handled sensitively and confidentially.
• Deliver professional, inspiring, and engaging sessions of the highest quality that challenge and stretch every student, and in which they are motivated and engaged throughout. We expect every tutor to be fully engaged in the session without exception.

Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required.

For the full job description and break down of duties, please contact Adele from the recruitment team adele.richard@the-aurora-group.com

Skills and Qualifications

Successful candidate qualities:

• Experience in vocational training.
• The skills to work within a Front of House role.
• The skills to confidently lead students and LSPs within vocational training.
• A good understanding of quality assurance in an education or training setting, however training will be given on all processes.
• Level 2 in English and Maths or equivalent.
• Teaching qualification is desirable.
• Hospitality qualification is desirable.
• Assessor qualification is desirable.
• Personal licence is desirable.

Benefits and Additional Information

What’s on offer?

• Full training and continued support
• Opportunity to gain qualifications, which will be funded by us!
• 10% off accommodation, hot drinks and food at Foxes Hotel
• Life assurance and pension
• Health cash back plan
• Car lease scheme
• Bike to work scheme 
• Perk box
• Free parking

Apply/Enquiries

If you are interested in this role then please apply on-line and complete our application form. For more information on this position please contact 07918 144908 / adele.richard@the-aurora-group.com

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.