Coventry
The job in one line \n You will work with a group of 25 young people, teach across the programme, and be the adult who does not give up on them. Everything else in this advert is detail. \n Who you will be working with \n PET-Xi runs a 16–19 Study Programme for young people mainstream education has not served well. Some were excluded. Some simply stopped attending and nobody chased them. Some arrived in the UK as asylum seekers or refugees and are rebuilding an education in a second language. \n Around nine in ten of our learners are neurodiverse. Six in ten come from low-income households, which means the cost of turning up, travel, food, kit, is itself a barrier. Some were referred with at least one contextual safeguarding concern. A few do not speak in class very much. \n They are not a problem to be managed. They are sixteen to nineteen year olds who have been told they are difficult often enough to believe it. Your job is to prove otherwise. \n What the job asks of you \n\n • Total commitment. Twenty-five young people are yours. Their attendance, their progress, their behaviour, their week. You are there to build their sense of their own worth, to be a role model and an ally, and to help them take up their place in the world.\n, • Deliver across the programme. GCSE English or maths, customer service, work-related skills, enrichment. You will not write the curriculum, the materials are there. You bring them to life.\n, • Set the temperature of the room. Draw out a group that will not speak. Focus a group that will not stop. Both are the same skill in different weather.\n, • Hold the line on behaviour, and know the difference between a consequence and a conversation.\n, • Be the constant. Teachers and support staff work around you. You are the person your group sees every day, and the one they will still be talking about in five years.\n\n Who we are looking for \n This is youth work with a timetable attached. If you are working with young people now, in youth services, detached work, sports coaching, mentoring, care, alternative provision or the voluntary sector, and you have found yourself doing the teaching bit anyway, this is the job that pays you for both. \n There are things you will need: Level 2 English and maths, an A level or above in English or maths, experience of delivering GCSE or Functional Skills in one of those subjects, and experience of supporting neurodiverse young people. A teaching qualification is not among them. QTS or a recognised assessor award is welcome, and not required. What matters just as much: \n\n • One hundred per cent commitment to the young people in front of you.\n, • The instinct to be an ally, not an authority figure who happens to be kind.\n, • Energy that lifts a room without needing volume.\n, • Warmth with young people who will test whether it is real, and resilience for the fortnight it takes them to stop testing.\n, • Honesty about what you have not done before, and appetite to be developed in it.\n, • Grit. Some weeks the odds win. You come back on Monday.\n\n A second language is a serious advantage. Arabic in particular, and also Romanian, Polish, Ukrainian, or another community language spoken by our learners and their families. \n Building, not maintaining \n This is the second year of the Study Programme. The first year taught us a great deal and we are acting on it, a stronger team, a clearer structure, a better offer for learners. You will have real influence over how that takes shape. \n We are looking for people who find that prospect appealing and will enjoy the impact and challenge. \n The young people we work with have been let down by adults who did not stay. Consistency is the most valuable thing you can give them. \n What we offer \n\n • £28,000 – £32,000, set by experience and relevant qualifications.\n, • A defined CPD plan, including support towards teaching or assessing qualifications where that is your direction of travel.\n, • Real influence over how the programme is built, not a fixed script to read.\n, • A team that backs each other, because the work does not allow anything else.\n, • Pension, Holiday, Other Benefits\n\n How to apply \n Send your CV and a short covering note, no more than one page, telling us about a young person you got through to. Closing date is the 26th August 2026. Interviews will be held 2nd–4th September 2026 and may include a short practical task with a group.