Our tutors represent our philosophy in action and carry out our heart-based approach.
They have the passion for teaching, patience and caring natures required to meet the unique needs of our students.
We are proud of our exceptional pool of experienced tutors. We work with a relatively small group of around 150 tutors and meet all tutors in person before tutoring.
This helps us recommend the best tutor for each student.
Our tutors demonstrate a passion for helping students with a more nurturing approach. They are suitably qualified and experienced to provide high-quality tuition.
We don’t simply vet tutors and leave families to choose from a list of profiles. Instead, our education consultants take time to understand your child’s needs in depth and draw on our first-hand knowledge of our tutors — each of whom we meet personally.
This allows us to recommend the right tutor with confidence, creating a supportive and reliable match that works far better than browsing profiles online.
Our tutors carry out the Bright Heart Approach in their lessons through patience, understanding and the building of rapport.
We provide an initial trial lesson to ensure a tutor and student are a good fit and likely to develop the necessary rapport – this is free if tuition does not proceed.
This creates a stable platform for the realisation of potential and academic success – especially for those students with additional needs or those who lack confidence and motivation.
We provide our tutors with initial training on safeguarding and the Bright Heart Approach. Tutors are also provided with an exclusive online training course produced by nasen (National Association of Special Educational Needs) to ensure that they are adequately prepared to meet the individual learning needs of our students. The course covers the current context of SEND; the 4 broad areas of need; person-centred working; and specific needs and strategies.
We provide further training and development to tutors, which includes holding in-person workshops run by nasen, annual safeguarding refresher training through The Safeguarding Network, and CPD through TES. Putting this all together, no Bright Heart tutor is ever ‘thrown into the deep-end’ when meeting a new student, and tutors are suitably prepared to deliver high-quality tuition.
We review numerous CVs and cover letters before short-listing the most appropriate candidates for telephone screening, and if successful, pre-screening checks.
Candidates are then interviewed by a Bright Heart director or senior education consultant and background checked. Checks include verifying a current, clean Enhanced DBS Certificate (criminal background check for people working with children), confirming qualifications, and obtaining at least two independent professional references to support a candidate’s application.
Successful candidates then enter a contract for services with Bright Heart and agree to be bound by our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. Contracts require tutors to deliver high-quality tuition by being suitably qualified and experienced and fully prepared, based on a particular student’s specific needs.
Learn more about our stringent safer recruitment process.
We understand the respectful environment that tutors enjoy and how this promotes quality tuition. Bright Heart values its tutors, treats them fairly, and provides them with an incentive scheme to motivate them to achieve the highest standards of tuition for students.
Key qualities we seek in tutors are patience and a caring attitude. Other important qualities and skills include:
In addition, we require our tutors to have:
We are always keen to hear from exceptional tutors, so if you are interested in tutoring through us* and believe that you meet all our requirements, please apply below.
*Tutors are self-employed, independent contractors who enter into a contract for services with Bright Heart (an employment business).
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