Digital Tutor

The Role:

As a Digital Tutor with WAES you can make your own powerful contribution to our success. Providing learners with high quality teaching experiences, you’ll develop individual learning plans for your students, track and monitor their progress, and keep accurate records of attendance, progress, achievement and assessment. Capable of setting and marking assignments, tests and examinations in line with qualification specifications and awarding body requirements, you’ll also be ready to provide constructive feedback to students as you support their learning, growth and improvement.

You’ll be expected to assess every learner’s abilities and identify areas for improvement, and tailor teaching methods, advice and resources to maximise the opportunities for progression and development. Committed to establishing and maintaining a positive and inclusive learning environment, and actively promoting learner participation, motivation and confidence, you’ll prepare creative and inspirational lessons, develop appropriate resources and carry out marking and assessments to a high professional standard.

Always ready to support WAES’s Managers and Course Leaders to achieve our targets, you’ll monitor and track your students’ progress though one-to-one sessions and tutorials, and if necessary, make referrals to Learning Support. We’ll also expect you to complete class registers correctly and keep them up to date, apply the appropriate diagnostics to ensure learners are on the correct programme, and maintain a strong focus on attendance, punctuality, retention, achievement and learner progression.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information. 

About You:

With recent experience of teaching in a post-16, further education or adult education setting, and well developed knowledge of appropriate teaching strategies, you’ll have a good understanding of online teaching and learning methods and the use of Virtual Learning Environments, or be willing to work towards this.

It goes without saying that you’ll have excellent written and verbal English language skills, and your engaging communication and interpersonal abilities will allow you to work well as a member of a highly collaborative team. It’s important that you’re capable of managing mixed groups of learners, and in addition to experience of devising course outlines and schemes of work, you should have a recognised Level 3 teaching qualification.

A confident user of IT, we’d also like you to have expertise in one or more of these subjects: digital skills, web design, software development or cybersecurity.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. 

Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit  https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

As a forward thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application , we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

Please visit our website www.waes.ac.uk/about-us/vacancies

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.