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Painting and Decorating Tutor

Dovetail Ref: 192696
Prison Education From £30,000 per annum Permanent mid Level 27 October 2026
East of England
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Education Details

Painting and Decorating Prison Education prison
Levels: Level 2
Also teaches: Construction Trades

Job Description

Painting and Decorating Tutor

Permanent

Location: the East of England

Salary: From £30,000 per annum

Are you a skilled painter and decorator looking for a role where your trade expertise genuinely changes lives?

About the Role

We are seeking an inspiring Painting and Decorating 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 painting and decorating 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 painting and decorating qualifications to groups of learners.
  • Conducting initial assessments and diagnostics to identify learners' starting points and needs.
  • Planning and adapting lessons to meet a diverse range of abilities and learning needs.
  • Setting individual training plans and providing ongoing advice, guidance and constructive feedback.
  • Maintaining strict workshop standards, including health and safety, tool control and workshop cleanliness, within a secure learning environment.
  • Assessing learner work, tracking progress and maintaining accurate course documentation in line with awarding body guidelines.

What We're Looking For

Essential:

  • A Level 2 (or higher) vocational qualification in painting and decorating or a related construction trade
  • Substantial hands-on industry experience as a painter, decorator or finishing specialist
  • Experience delivering vocational or on-the-job trade training, using varied methods to engage learners with diverse needs

Desirable (but not essential):

  • A teaching or assessing qualification

No teaching qualification? No problem. Full support and funding will be provided to help you work towards the required qualification during your probationary period.

What's on Offer

  • Full support and funding for teaching qualification during probationary period

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

Requirements

  • Level 2 (or higher) vocational qualification in painting and decorating or related construction trade
  • Substantial hands-on industry experience as painter, decorator or finishing specialist
  • Experience delivering vocational or on-the-job trade training
  • Enhanced DBS check
  • HMPPS security vetting

Benefits

  • • Full support and funding for teaching qualification during probationary period

Skills & Qualifications

Painting and decoratingVocational training deliveryWorkshop health and safetyInitial assessment and diagnosticsIndividual training plansDifferentiated teachingLearner assessmentWorking with diverse learners

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