Pastoral Tutor (full-time, term-time only plus two weeks)
Worcester Sixth Form College
Worcestershire
- £24,138 - £25,687 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Actual starting salary will be £21,173.85 based on the Sixth Form Colleges’ Support Staff Salary Spine points 11-13 (currently £24,138 - £25,687 pro-rata).
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 29th August 2023 (or earlier by agreement)
- Apply by:
- 12 June 2023
Job overview
Due to student numbers, the College is seeking an additional permanent Pastoral Tutor to work full time (37 hours per week), term-time (38 weeks) plus two weeks equivalent (74 hours) outside of normal term time hours. Relevant training will be provided.
Job Purpose
Working as a member of the Tutorial team the successful candidate will be a Pastoral Tutor to groups of students, ensuring that they have excellent attendance and academic progress, supporting their social and personal development and performing a number of administrative duties.
Pastoral Tutors are responsible for both administrative and pastoral matters relating to the students in their group. They also exercise a degree of supervision over the academic progress of students. The effectiveness of the tutorial system depends to a great extent upon the quality of the relationship between student and tutor and between tutor and tutor group.
The Tutorial System
The College places considerable emphasis on the quality of its Tutorial Programme as a means of communication, and the support and wider personal and academic development of its students. Tutors meet once a week with their tutor group for registration, attendance monitoring and delivery of the activities related to the programme. In addition, they have a weekly time allocation to be used flexibly to meet with their tutees on a more individual basis. This time may also be used to meet with parents, teachers, or to complete administrative duties as appropriate.
The pastoral system is managed by the three Heads of Year. Each Head of Year works closely with a small team of Pastoral Tutors to offer their team the help, support and guidance they require.
Working time
The hours will be worked in allocations of 3 hours per tutor group, each group consisting of approximately 22 students. A full time Tutor would be responsible for 10-12 tutor groups.
The successful candidate would be expected to attend parents’ evenings, tutorial team meetings, course confirmation days and relevant training days. Where these take place outside of, and in addition to contracted term time working hours, they would be taken from the ‘plus two weeks’ hours or as agreed lieu time or, where this was not possible, paid as additional hours. They would also be expected to spend some time contacting or meeting with parents after the end of the College day where this proves the best method of contact. This would also normally be taken as lieu time.
Please note interviews for this post will take place on Wednesday, 21st June 2023.
Attached documents
About Worcester Sixth Form College
- Worcester Sixth Form College
- Spetchley Road, Worcester
- Worcestershire
- WR5 2LU
- United Kingdom
Worcester Sixth Form College is proud to be part of Heart of Mercia Multi-Academy Trust and supports the Trust’s vision of providing a range of excellent learning opportunities within the region, in a positive, friendly and tolerant culture that will equip them to fulfil their potential and meet their individual goals. In order to achieve this vision, Heart of Mercia is committed to sustaining high achieving sixth form colleges as the best environment for the personal, academic and career development for 16 to 19 year olds.
At Worcester Sixth Form College, we are specialists in the education of 16-19 year olds and our staff are experts in meeting the needs of this age group. Every year we admit 800 or so students from the whole county of Worcestershire and from surrounding areas. This enables us to offer an exceptionally wide range of courses and flexible programmes in which any course can be combined with virtually any other course. Our students are highly successful, not just academically, but in many other kinds of endeavour, including sports, performing arts, music, Duke of Edinburgh, charity fund raising and a wide variety of other extra-curricular areas.
· Academies in Sports, Performing Arts, Maths and Science
· A long track record of supporting students with learning needs in achieving their full potential
For further details please refer to our website.
Equality
We are proud to be an inclusive organisation where individual differences are accepted and valued and where everyone is able to fulfil their potential in a welcoming, safe and non threatening environment. Worcester Sixth Form College is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for students, employers, community groups, staff, governors, members of the public and for others who come into contact with the College.
The College is an equal opportunities employer and staff, students, volunteers and workers are expected to respect the principles of open access and opportunity for all regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
Applications from members of the ethnic minorities would be particularly welcome as they are currently under represented in our workforce.
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