Outdoor Educator – Maths and English Teaching Apprenticeship (Further Education Sector)

ADO Therapy

Welling (DA16 3NB)

Closes in 16 days (Friday 12 December 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 26 November 2025

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Summary

We are looking for a flexible apprentice outdoor educator who will learn to plan, deliver and assess Maths and English Functional Skills lessons innovatively. We are looking for someone who can demonstrate a practical, creative approach to teaching Maths and English, in alignment with our outdoor education ethos.

• Wage:

  £24,971 a year

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  Term Time 40 wks per annum FE pay scale: Unqualified education role: £7.55 p/h (apprenticeship rate) to £13.69 p/h NLW & relevant qualification dependent Salary increase on successful qualification to Level 5 payscale currently set at £14.42.

• Training course: Learning and skills teacher (level 5)
• Hours: This post is term-time (40 hours per week Mon-Fri 8.45am-5.15pm, 40 weeks)

  40 hours a week

• Start date:

  Monday 5 January 2026

• Duration:

  1 year 6 months

• Positions available:

  1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

Plan, deliver, evaluate and assess Maths and English lessons,
demonstrating a creative and practical approach linked to our outdoor
education ethos and land based/animal care vocational qualifications
• Complete Pearsons Functional skills assessments and paperwork to
ensure young people are gaining correct qualifications
• Complete reports once a term detailing young people’s progress to send to caregivers
• Lead at least one activity club session a week
• Support lunch cover as needed.
• Support other curriculum areas if needed, for cover purposes.
• Commence and complete L5 education and training qualification to begin leading education sessions covering Maths & English. These sessions can be via a small education group or 1:1 according to curriculum.
• Lead and or support Re-engagement/ADO Fusion/external clients 1:1 or group work with service users during term days
• Potential to agency cover the school staff where required

Where you'll work

19A Keats Road
Welling
DA16 3NB

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

ACTIVATE LEARNING

Training course

Learning and skills teacher (level 5)

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What you'll learn

Course contents

• Integrate subject and pedagogic research into teaching activity to enhance teaching and support changes of practice
• Identify, consider and take steps to minimise the impact of barriers to learning
• Contextualise English and mathematics in a way that promotes understanding of key topics
• Use a variety of teaching and assessment methods depending on the learning environment and learners’ needs
• Encourage learners to set challenging goals
• Promote understanding of equality and diversity and sustainable development
• Demonstrate through their teaching the wider context (policy, economic, societal, technological, legal, cultural and environmental) of the subject, recognising the implications for professional practice
• Design and use resources that are inclusive and add value to learners’ development
• Engage and inspire all learners
• Identify and set outcomes to enable each learner to achieve or exceed targets
• Provide ongoing learner feedback
• Use the results of initial and diagnostic assessment to plan learning and differentiated support at the start of and throughout the learners' journey
• Encourage learners to develop: autonomy and resilience, personal and interpersonal effectiveness, social awareness and respect for others, essential employability skills, a solutions mindset, and the ability to create change
• Use assessment data to regularly review and develop own and others’ practice and to report emerging gaps in progression and achievement amongst groups of learners
• Support the implementation and execution of safeguarding procedures and promote the welfare of children, young people and/or adults in accordance with statutory provisions
• Prepare learners for their transition through education, further training, and into employment
• Comply with internal and external regulations, legislation and guidance, such as: teaching, learning and assessment, recording, storing and sharing information relating to learners
• Adapt communication style, method, and terminology to reflect the needs of the audience including individual learners, colleagues, stakeholders
• Engage learners to establish standards of behaviour, mutual respect and safe working
• Challenge learners to address inappropriate behaviour or viewpoints
• Continually update and maintain their own knowledge and skills as a teaching professional and a subject specialist as part of managing their own continual professional development (CPD)
• Be proactive in seeking and responding to feedback from varied sources including learner voice, peers, colleagues, employers and stakeholders to improve own practice
• Manage workload through preparation and prioritisation, time management, and responsiveness to change
• Act within, the statutory frameworks which set out their professional duties and responsibilities
• Use innovative and up to date digital and online technologies in a way that is safe to improve teaching, learning and assessment
• Integrate subject and pedagogic research into teaching activity to enhance teaching and support changes of practice
• Identify, consider and take steps to minimise the impact of barriers to learning
• Contextualise English and mathematics in a way that promotes understanding of key topics
• Use a variety of teaching and assessment methods depending on the learning environment and learners’ needs
• Encourage learners to set challenging goals
• Promote understanding of equality and diversity and sustainable development
• Demonstrate through their teaching the wider context (policy, economic, societal, technological, legal, cultural and environmental) of the subject, recognising the implications for professional practice
• Design and use resources that are inclusive and add value to learners’ development
• Engage and inspire all learners
• Identify and set outcomes to enable each learner to achieve or exceed targets
• Provide ongoing learner feedback
• Use the results of initial and diagnostic assessment to plan learning and differentiated support at the start of and throughout the learners' journey
• Encourage learners to develop: autonomy and resilience, personal and interpersonal effectiveness, social awareness and respect for others, essential employability skills, a solutions mindset, and the ability to create change
• Use assessment data to regularly review and develop own and others’ practice and to report emerging gaps in progression and achievement amongst groups of learners
• Support the implementation and execution of safeguarding procedures and promote the welfare of children, young people and/or adults in accordance with statutory provisions
• Prepare learners for their transition through education, further training, and into employment
• Comply with internal and external regulations, legislation and guidance, such as: teaching, learning and assessment, recording, storing and sharing information relating to learners
• Adapt communication style, method, and terminology to reflect the needs of the audience including individual learners, colleagues, stakeholders
• Engage learners to establish standards of behaviour, mutual respect and safe working
• Challenge learners to address inappropriate behaviour or viewpoints
• Continually update and maintain their own knowledge and skills as a teaching professional and a subject specialist as part of managing their own continual professional development (CPD)
• Be proactive in seeking and responding to feedback from varied sources including learner voice, peers, colleagues, employers and stakeholders to improve own practice
• Manage workload through preparation and prioritisation, time management, and responsiveness to change
• Act within, the statutory frameworks which set out their professional duties and responsibilities
• Use innovative and up to date digital and online technologies in a way that is safe to improve teaching, learning and assessment

Training schedule

Term Time Monday online training with training provider

Practical training will be on the apprenticeship for the remaining hours of the post per week

Level 5 Learning and skills teacher apprenticeship standard.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

• English (grade Level 2 FS /GCSE C/4 or above)
• Maths (grade Level 2 FS /GCSE C/4 or above)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Customer care skills
• Problem solving skills
• Presentation skills
• Administrative skills
• Number skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Creative
• Initiative
• Non judgemental
• Patience
• Physical fitness
• Empathy

Other requirements

Desirable: • Experience of working with young people with additional needs / social emotional and mental health needs. In addition to the apprenticeship course, other CPD courses may be identified as you progress in the role and animal/equine handling training to aid engagement and build the therapeutic offering and service user/client relationship as required. Please note: We undertake safeguarding checks on all our workers in accordance with our policies and the DfE statutory guidance 'Keeping Children Safe in Education'. As part of these checks, we require a current Enhanced DBS Disclosure for everyone working in our therapy provision. If you do not have a valid subscription to the DBS Update Service, we will require you to complete a new online portal DBS application as part of the registration process, at a cost to the employee and maintain the subscription to the update service annually.

About this employer

ADO Therapy is a small specialist and evolving private company providing an Alternative Provision (ADO Fusion), interventions and therapy pathways into education for children, young people and adults with animals, wildlife and nature. We are a sister company to ADO River Valley which is a small special independent school on the same site specialising in SEMH

http://www.adotherapy.co.uk (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

Wellbeing benefit £250 per annum to use against gym membership, osteopath, massage, sports activities etc Loyalty Holiday program Employee Assistance Program Private Medical Health Birthday Benefit Team Building events Staff free fruit

After this apprenticeship

Permanent Post applies on successful completion of the apprenticeship to grow a teaching career with ADO Therapy with potential to learn or study further including therapeutic skills to support the career growth

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

ACTIVATE LEARNING

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000002247.

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Closes in 16 days (Friday 12 December 2025 at 11:59pm)

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