Art and Design tutor

Part Time Art and Design Tutor Required

Salary: £33,000 FTE, which equates £17,914 pro rata if you are qualified to PGCE level or equivalent - (Equivalent to Main Pay Scale 3 – outer London)

£27,810 FTE, which equates to £15,097 pro rata for an unqualified teacher

Start Date: 15th August 2022

Hours: 19 hours per week, 52 weeks per annum. We offer 32 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays (40 in total) – pro-rata for part time roles

Big Creative Training(BCT) job specification (Art and Design tutor)

Big Creative Training is a well-established and expanding creative industry training provider with a long track record of delivering positive outcomes for learners. Our mission is to improve the lives of young people through high quality training and creative industry experiences. 

We have more than 400 young people per year going through our vocational training programmes including apprenticeships, and they all take qualifications in maths and English. We have great industry links and work with over 100 creative sector employers and SMEs.

These are exciting times for the Digital department at BCT. This September we are launching our new world class Digital Future campus including industry standard training rooms, equipment, VFX studios, e-sports arena and editing suites.

To this effect, we are looking for an outstanding Art and Design tutor to join at the new site based in Walthamstow, East London. We require a tutor with experienceof teaching art and design, and with relevant experience of practitioner work and qualifications in the art and design field.  

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a successful and growing department, within a supportive framework. Candidates will have maths and English at GCSE grade C / 4 or above, and will be educated to degree level with evidence of outstanding practice working in a similar environment.

For further details on the courses we offer, please visit the following websites:

https://bigcreative.education/art-design/

 

Key tasks and qualities 

• The ability to work in a way that promotes the safety and wellbeing of young people

• Plan and deliver exciting lessons that support learner progression

• Ensure learners are retained, achieve their qualifications and progress

• Ensure the course has a wide range of enrichment including guest speakers and trips

• Complete learner one to one tutorials and individual learning plans

• Use a range of assessment methods ensuring the learners are inspired to progress by outstanding and prompt feedback

• Ability to empathise with and understand the many challenges faced by young adults in a demographic with high free school meals rate and poverty levels

• Ability to inspire these learners by developing lessons that can relate to and build on their needs and interests 

• Experience of working in the creative industries using an entrepreneurial approach

• Develop innovative ways of collaborating on projects both within the department and with other courses in the college

• Experience of working profesionally in a relevant industry

• Extremely organised and able to manage own work load effectively and flexibly

• Highly motivated and driven to succeed in a competitive and rewarding environment

• Outstanding teaching and communication skills and experience of good / outstanding Ofsted 

• Positive, solution focused and proactive in managing and responding to data 

• Assertive and self-confident in management of the learning environment

• Committed and willing to “go the extra mile” to meet targets

• Ambitious – will not settle for less than outstanding standards of work and behaviour

Technical skills –we’d be interested in hearing from applicants with combinations of the following skills:

• Have the ability to teach about the use and application of a range of materials and processes within art and design

• Know systems of measurement for translating 3D subjects into 2D drawings, knowing how a range of light sources affect the appearance and meaning of subjects.

• Have experience in using a range of media to record the effects of light on subjects

• Be able to use materials, processes and technical skills in 2D and 3D art and design.

Benefits of working for BCT

• Supportive, developmental environment with a creative and innovative approach to education

• Be part of a successful and expanding organisation with a pension and healthcare cash plan

• Staff at BCT are supported with internal and external CPD opportunities that are tailored to their progression aims 

• We offer 32 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays (40 in total) – pro-rata for part time roles

How to apply

• For an informal conversation about the role please call Darren Peers on 07931 444339. 

• If you wish to apply you must complete the application form here by 9am on Friday 20th May 2022  http://www.bigcreative.education/bct-staff-application-form/ 

• To find out more about BCT and our approach to education please see www.bigcreative.education

• Big Creative Training was rated “good” by Ofsted at our last inspection. You can read the full report here. 

• Ofsted said: “Leaders and staff successfully ignite young people’s enthusiasm for learning”.