Job Overview
SEMH Tutor
Employer: Springboard
Location: Pallion, Sunderland SR4 6AD
Job Type: Permanent, Full-time
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Salary & Benefits
Salary: £24,575–£26,622 a year
Benefits include:
- 25 days’ annual leave plus statutory holidays
- Paid Christmas closure period, which does not reduce annual leave entitlement
- Life insurance
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Casual dress
- Ongoing professional development
Key Responsibilities
- Plan, deliver and assess personalised learning programmes
- Build consistent and trusting relationships with learners
- Support learners through flexible, creative and adaptive teaching approaches
- Promote attendance, punctuality and sustained engagement
- Respond calmly and non-judgementally to challenging behaviour
- Use trauma-informed and relationship-based approaches
- Support emotional regulation, co-regulation and de-escalation
- Create safe, predictable and supportive learning environments
- Adapt teaching materials to meet different SEMH needs and learning styles
- Monitor, assess and record learner progress
- Support emotional resilience, confidence and independence
- Work with support staff, pastoral teams, employers and external agencies
- Support person-centred planning and EHCP outcomes where applicable
- Help learners develop life skills, employability skills and independence
- Prepare learners for further education, employment or training
- Promote safeguarding, wellbeing, inclusion and respect
- Complete assessment evidence, progress tracking and risk assessments
Requirements
- Teaching and assessing qualifications, or willingness to work towards them
- Experience working with post-16 learners with SEMH needs or behaviours linked to emotional and mental health
- Understanding of trauma-informed and relational approaches
- Understanding of the SEND Code of Practice and inclusive education
- Awareness of neurodiversity, including ADHD, Autism and Dyslexia
- Ability to build positive relationships with learners who may be disengaged or anxious
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to remain calm and effective in challenging situations
- Commitment to inclusive, learner-centred practice
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Up-to-date digital skills
- Minimum Level 2 Functional Skills in Maths and English
- Willingness to travel where required
Desirable:
- Experience working with learners with EHCPs
- Knowledge of attachment-aware practice
- Knowledge of restorative approaches or behaviour regulation strategies
- Experience of teaching, assessment and quality assurance
- Relevant qualification in education, youth work, mental health or a related field
About The Role
Springboard is recruiting a SEMH Tutor to work with post-16 learners in Sunderland who experience social, emotional and mental health needs.
The permanent, full-time position is based in Pallion and offers 37 hours per week. The advertised salary is £24,575–£26,622 a year.
The role focuses on helping learners re-engage with education, develop confidence and emotional resilience and progress towards positive futures. The successful candidate will work with learners both with and without Education, Health and Care Plans, with support tailored to individual needs rather than diagnosis.
The successful applicant will build strong, consistent relationships with learners and use trauma-informed and relationship-based approaches to create safe and supportive learning environments. The role involves supporting emotional regulation and using calm, relational and non-judgemental approaches when learners experience challenges.
Teaching responsibilities include planning, delivering and assessing personalised learning programmes, adapting teaching methods to different SEMH needs and learning styles, and monitoring and recording learner progress.
The SEMH Tutor will also work collaboratively with support staff, pastoral teams, employers and external agencies. The role covers the learner journey from recruitment through to progression and includes helping learners develop life skills, employability skills and independence.
Springboard is looking for candidates with experience supporting post-16 learners with SEMH needs or behaviours linked to emotional and mental health. Applicants should understand trauma-informed practice, relational approaches, inclusive education and the SEND Code of Practice, together with awareness of neurodiversity.
The role is subject to safeguarding procedures, including an Enhanced DBS check and two satisfactory references. Springboard states that shortlisted applicants will also be subject to an online search as part of its safeguarding process.
The organisation is an Ofsted GOOD provider with almost 50 years of experience delivering study programmes, apprenticeships and adult skills courses.
Source
Springboard / Indeed
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