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Motor Mechanics Tutor

Dovetail Ref: 184096
Prison Education From £30,000 per annum Permanent mid Level 15 May 2026
Yorkshire and the Humber
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Education Details

Motor Vehicle Prison Education prison
Levels: Level 3Vocational

Job Description

Motor Mechanics Tutor- HMP

Permanent

Location: Newmarket

Salary: From £30,000 per annum

Are you a skilled motor vehicle professional looking for a role where your trade expertise genuinely changes lives?

About the Role

We are seeking an inspiring Motor Mechanics Tutor to join an education provider in the justice sector, delivering meaningful vocational learning within a prison education setting. This is a unique opportunity to support learners on their rehabilitation journey, helping them build the practical skills, confidence and qualifications needed to progress into employment and shape brighter futures.

You'll deliver engaging and inclusive motor mechanics lessons to small groups of learners with a wide range of educational backgrounds, learning needs and abilities. Many of your learners will have had difficult experiences of education, so patience, empathy and a genuine belief in each individual's potential will matter as much as your technical knowledge.

Key Responsibilities

  • Delivering motor mechanics sessions and qualifications to groups of learners.
  • Assessing, reviewing and tracking learner progress.
  • Maintaining accurate course and learner records.
  • Embedding employability and workplace skills into the curriculum.
  • Supporting learners to achieve and progress towards employment.

What We're Looking For

Essential:

  • NVQ Level 3 qualification in motor vehicle maintenance, or equivalent, with industry experience
  • An expert in your field with substantial vocational experience
  • Ability to work effectively within a team
  • Genuine passion for learner development

Desirable (but not essential):

  • A teaching or assessing qualification

No teaching qualification? No problem. Full support and funding is available to help you work towards the required teaching and assessing qualifications.

What We Offer

  • 30 days annual leave
  • Paid Life Event Day each year
  • Generous pension scheme
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Holiday purchase scheme
  • Enhanced wedding leave
  • Enhanced maternity scheme
  • Life assurance
  • Employee assistance programme
  • Access to a wellbeing platform and retail discounts

If you're ready to put your trade expertise to work helping learners build real skills and real futures, we'd love to hear from you.

What's on Offer

  • 30 days annual leave
  • Paid Life Event Day each year
  • Generous pension scheme
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Holiday purchase scheme
  • Enhanced wedding leave
  • Enhanced maternity scheme
  • Life assurance
  • Employee assistance programme
  • Wellbeing platform access
  • Retail discounts
  • Full teaching qualification training and funding provided

Important Notice Dovetail and Slate is a specialist education recruitment company. If this role isn't quite right, we welcome your CV and a call to explore other opportunities. We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. All appointments are subject to satisfactory vetting, including a right to work check and, where relevant, an enhanced DBS, PVG (Scotland), or EWC (Wales) check, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education. Dovetail and Slate Ltd (11351060) acts as an Employment Agency and an Employment Business under the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003. We are an equal opportunities employer. By applying, you consent to your data being processed for recruitment purposes in line with our Privacy Policy. Because education matters. © Dovetail and Slate Limited.

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Your Recruitment Consultant

Lauren Main

Lauren Main

Associate Recruitment Consultant

Pension

Generous pension scheme

Requirements

  • NVQ Level 3 qualification in motor vehicle maintenance or equivalent
  • Substantial vocational motor vehicle industry experience
  • Ability to work effectively within a team
  • Passion for learner development

Benefits

  • • 30 days annual leave
  • • Paid Life Event Day each year
  • • Generous pension scheme
  • • Cycle to work scheme
  • • Holiday purchase scheme

Skills & Qualifications

Motor vehicle maintenanceMotor mechanicsVocational training deliveryLearner assessmentProgress trackingEmployability skills embedding

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