PASTORAL TUTOR (Full-time, term-time only plus two weeks)
Worcester Sixth Form College, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR5 2LU4 days remaining to apply
Job start date
27 August 2024
Closing date
7 May 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
19 April 2024
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, term time: 37 hours/week: 8.30 am - 4.30 pm (one day 30 minutes less at the beginning or end of the day), 5 days per week with a half an hour lunch break (unpaid), term time (38 weeks) plus 2 weeks/74 hours (worked outside of normal term time) per academic year.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Actual starting salary will be £22,892.29 based on the Sixth Form Colleges’ Support Staff Salary Spine points 11-13 (currently £26,097 - £27,747 pro-rata).
Pay scale
- Appointment will normally be to point 11. A term-time factor of 0.8772 is used to calculate salary, which is spread equally throughout the year.
What skills and experience we're looking for
The College is seeking a 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 four 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.
What the school offers its staff
You may be entitled to the following additional benefits depending on eligibility requirements and subject to the terms of any insurance taken out by the College in relation to them:
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP): A free and confidential information, support and counselling service for all staff.
- Cycle to Work with Cyclescheme: Save money on a new bike and spread the cost.
- Eye care vouchers: Reimbursement of eye care costs and contribution to corrective lenses available for DSE users.
- Free parking on-site
- Learning Resources Centre: Staff have full use of the Learning Resources Centre and are able to borrow up to 12 resources (books, DVDs, audio CDs) at one time.
- Silver Membership to Malvern Theatre: Free theatre and cinema tickets, discounted tickets and priority booking available amongst other benefits.
- Thursday Morning Breakfast Club: Start your working day with a light breakfast (provided by College) and chat with colleagues.
- Badminton and Football sessions each week: All staff are welcome to take part in any of these activities.
- Fruity Friday: Free piece of fresh fruit for all staff every Friday!
These benefits are discretionary and the College may, in its absolute discretion, vary the provision of or terms of such benefits or withdraw any of them completely at any time
Commitment to safeguarding
The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all members of staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, including two satisfactory references and a satisfactory enhanced criminal records with Barred List check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
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About Worcester Sixth Form College
- School type
- Academy, ages 16 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Sixth form and collegejobs
- School size
- 0 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 16 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Worcester Sixth Form College website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hayley.ashby@wsfc.ac.uk
- Phone number
- 01905 362619
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.
For details of our current vacancies, please visit our website:
https://www.wsfc.ac.uk/job-opportunities/
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