Senior Tutor (GCSE English & Maths Tutor)

As a Get Further Senior Tutor, you will support further education students resitting their GCSE English and/or maths by delivering high-quality tuition in small groups within partner colleges and sixth forms. Using Get Further’s bespoke resources, you will create engaging, supportive learning environments that build students’ confidence, motivation, and academic progress.

Location In-person at our partner locations across England. Current locations for GCSE Resit Senior Tutors include Birmingham, London, Manchester, Cardiff

Hours Full and part-time applications welcomed (minimum 20 hours per week). Must be available 11am – 12pm on Fridays. Contract Fixed term with start date August/September 2026 and end date May 2027.

Salary £26,900 per year (based on a full-time contract of 37.5 hours, part-time contracts will be prorated), in addition to £2,000 inner London weighting.

Helping Students Get Further

One in three students leave school each year without a standard pass (grade 4 or above) in GCSE English and maths, representing over 200,000 16-year-olds every year. This rises to over one in two for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. The scale of the challenge at 16 extends into adulthood. An estimated 8.5 million working age adults in England have low literacy and numeracy skills. Lacking gateway qualifications locks people out of many opportunities for education and employment and is associated with adverse outcomes for learning potential, health and well-being

Our benefits include:

• 36 days of holidays per year, including bank holidays (based on a full-time contract of 37.5 hours, part time contracts will be prorated).
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities.
• The opportunity to work in a progressive and socially conscious, growing organisation where you can have an outsized impact on its success and development.
• The opportunity to work in a progressive and socially conscious, growing organisation where you can have an outsized impact on its success and development.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSBILITIES

• Delivering high-quality tuition (roughly 80% of role)
• Deliver exemplary tutoring sessions, demonstrating an excellent understanding of the curriculum, the subject(s) and the resources.
• Demonstrate expertise and professionalism as a standard for other tutors, setting a benchmark as a role model within the team.
• Demonstrate a positive attitude to professional development, by engaging with and attending our Tutor Academy seminars and workshops
• Complete and maintain high-quality registers for sessions, to ensure attendance and student progress is recorded accurately and is up to date.
• Create and share high-quality video reflections of your tutoring to allow for feedback and development from Get Further staff

Student Success and Programme Quality (roughly 20% of role)

• Prepare thoroughly for sessions.
• Attend a 1-hour Senior Tutor Huddle on Fridays at 11am, demonstrating a positive attitude to developing practice and building effective relationships with colleagues.
• Connect with and mentor students, communicating with students outside of their sessions to strengthen positive relationships, attendance, and to gather student feedback.

Other activities that may include:

• Support and build effective relationships with Hourly/Flex Tutors on-site.
• Play a role in the development of our curriculum, by submitting resource reflections to the Curriculum team. Support with the organisation’s presence on-site, connecting with and building effective relationships with college partners.

Any other reasonable duties which may occur from time to time, such as support with enrolment, covering tutor absence, attendance initiatives, promotion of the programme, or logistical support onsite.

CORE REQUIREMENTS

• Eligibility to work in the UK.
• Ability to tutor English and/or maths – as part of the recruitment process, you will be asked to complete a short subject knowledge assessment.
• Grade C/4 or above in GCSE English and maths (or equivalent).
• A-level/equivalent qualification at grade B or above in subject/s relevant to English and/or Maths.
• Obtained a 2:2 undergraduate degree or above
• Previous experience teaching or tutoring for a minimum of 3 months.
• Must share Get Further’s commitment to Safeguarding and protecting the wellbeing of children and young people.
• If successful, your employment will be subject to a DBS check, Right to Work check, social media check, and 2 suitable references.
• A police check, or police letter of good conduct, may be required for applicants who have lived overseas for longer than 3 months in the last 5 years.
• Ability to travel to your placement colleges – for some locations this may require you to have a UK driving license and access to a car.

Process

1. Complete expression of interest form
2. Subject test
3. Full application
4. Online Assessment Centre

For any questions regarding applications, contact tutorapplications@getfurther.org.uk.

This is a UK-based role. Applicants must reside in the UK and have the right to work in the UK; if applicable please detail your visa status in your application. Get Further is an equal opportunities employer and will not discriminate against any candidate on the basis of any characteristic protected by the Equality Act 2010.