Excellent idea: problematic execution. - werkgeversreview Tutor bij Learning Hive

There were several red flags. Management: Disorganised administration, prone to reducing hours with short notice, sending incorrect pay/not sending pay in time, losing/misplacing already-provided information leading to time-wasting. Management employed a confusing retroactive approach to company policy sometimes enforcing rules that had never previously been articulated. This included, for example, implicitly gender-specific clothing policy requiring modest dress, sent via email to employees and framed as a 'reminder', rather than new information that might save indignity of women employees. It also included the omission, then later enforcement of rules about how to do our jobs, that would have been more helpful if said during training. I witnessed management openly undermine employees over these aforementioned rules in group settings, where they could have handled it in a tactful manner 1 to 1 to keep up morale. Management would maintain an unprofessional presence while overseeing our work, i.e. looking through phone in classroom while we taught the children - distracting them in the process because of their poor role-modelling, hence making our jobs harder managing behaviour. Training/support: Training lacked detail and clarity and as such left employees unsure how to execute their roles until the first day of work. Got too brief a look through teaching materials during training. Could have benefitted from a walkthrough of the company's teaching approach. Roles of tutors (i.e. subject and age group) were not allocated until 10 mins before start of first teaching session and were allocated in front of clients, not allowing tutors time to accurately choose which role would play to their strengths and risking them overstretching themselves in an area they were less comfortable with. Pay: You get paid less than many would expect for tutoring. Realistically around twice as much. Few hours and difficult to get cover. Getting cover is explicitly the employees' responsibility so if something comes up that feels more important than the little pay you'd get from that days work, you may find yourself quite stuck for getting cover as doing so relies on the good faith of others. Few to no people offer to cover! You teach up to 9 students before pay increases, for which you get allocated a half hours paid time for marking/planning lessons and writing daily reports for each student. This is unrealistic, logistically. Same half-hour of marking time is allocated regardless of how advanced/simple the material is. This means you get paid same amount of hours allocated for marking a year 1's work as a year 6's. Safeguarding/security: This seemed problematic. DBS certificates were being requested up until the day before first day of work in a school. One employees safeguarding course requested weeks after already started work. Values/work environment: Lovely colleagues, but management oddly disengaged about modern standards of school settings, such as self-care, mental health and inclusivity. Slightly off-hand comment made by management - making the word 'gay' seem funny in front of kids - is a red flag regarding sensitivity around LGBT+ matters.