Ace Tutor

Job Title:  ACE Tutor  (A Champion for Every Child)

Start Date:  1st September 2022

Deadline:  14th July 2022

Interviews:  tbc

Location:  Welling School – City Region

Scale:  Scale 4 - FTE £22,067 (actual salary £18,815)

Appointment:  Full Time & Permanent  36 hours a week (39 weeks per year)

About Us:

Our vision is simple – to ensure that all of our students achieve beyond our expectations and flourish as confident learners with the highest aspirations, ready for a bright and successful future and ready for the world in which they will work and live. We are relentless in our pursuit of the very best for all our students. We understand challenges but do not accept them as limitations.

Welling School is an all ability, co-educational 11-18 school, located in the London borough of Bexley. As well as serving our local community we welcome students from a diverse range of backgrounds and areas. Each of them bringing their own part to make up the Welling School Community.   We are proud to be part of The Kemnal Academies Trust (TKAT) which is one of the largest Multi Academy Trusts in South East England with over 40 Primary and Secondary Academies in the TKAT family.  As well as ensuring our students are knowledgeable and confident at Welling our shared values are to be: 

• Ambitious  
• Kind 
• Active

 

See our website for further information about the school www.wellingschool-tkat.org

 

 The Role:

We are looking to appoint an inspirational and dynamic colleague to join our team of committed and dedicated professionals who will do whatever it takes to help our young people achieve great things - beyond expectations. 

As an ACE Tutor  you will be working with some of our most vulnerable learners and their families to offer personalised and bespoke support and guidance. You will work hard to understand their individuality and help resolve barriers to their achievement - making a real difference to our students and our community. 

Through regular and meaningful contact you will forge profitable and trusting relationships that inspire confidence and help bridge the gap between school and home. You will know each child you work with as an individual and over time learn what they need from us to help them achieve. 

It could be something as small as making sure they are equipped with all they need to come to school or working with other professionals to develop their ambition and resilience for a successful future. No two days will ever be the same - although they will always be rewarding and exciting. 

Your previous experience as a learning support professional is less important to us than your clear vision on what can be achieved for our students and how we can motivate and inspire them to achieve great things. Because you have a calm, personable and patient manner and because you are creative, persistent and interested you will know why that is. 

Our new colleague will have an unstinting belief that every young person, whatever their starting point or circumstances, can make and sustain exceptional progress and that our purpose is to change lives.

You will have access to on-going development opportunities and the support of a forward thinking, successful multi-academy trust. You will be joining a team of strong and experienced staff who will do whatever it takes to help you to succeed in your new and exciting role.

As well as having a passion for young people and their futures our colleague will: 

• be an approachable warm professional with the ability to foster excellent relationships 
• be compassionate and able to understand people and their own contexts 
• have a high level of emotional intelligence 
• bring an unwavering commitment to doing whatever it takes 
• have the ability to engage and inspire others 
• be able to use data to prioritise and inform action planning 
• be a resourceful problem solver 
• To be tenacious and well organised with good time management

This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly ambitious team of staff and make a real impact on our students’ lives. 

Contact and Application Information:

Informal discussions and/or visits are actively encouraged.  To arrange a visit or discuss the post, please contact Victoria Edwards, HR Adviser on 020 8304 8531 or email victoria.edwards@wellingschool-tkat.org.  The job description and person specification can be downloaded below.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early should we receive a significant number of applications. If you have not had any communication within 10 days of the closing date please take this as confirmation that on this occasion your application has not been successful. 

Safeguarding: TKAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Offers of employment will be subject to the full Safer Recruitment process, including an enhanced disclosure and barring service check. 

Our Commitment - Equal, Inclusive, Diverse: TKAT is committed to inclusion, diversity and equality of opportunity by encouraging and welcoming differences, listening to individual experiences, aspirations and accomplishments and learning how to grow better together. We welcome applications from all suitable candidates, regardless of any protected characteristic; this includes applicants wishing to work flexibly.

Access to interview:- should you be selected and invited to interview please let us know if you require us to adapt the interview environment.  If we can accommodate practical workplace adjustments to assist we will.

Applications should be sent by email to victoria.edwards@wellingschool-tkat.org.