Progress Tutor
Contract Type: Permanent, Term time only
Salary: £25,612.08 to £27,207.38 (pro rata of £30,777.00 to £32,694.00)
Location: NewVIc Sixth Form Centre, Prince Regent Lane - East London
Reports to: Tutorial Manager
Closing date: 12 noon on Monday 6 January 2025
Grade: Grade 6, SP26-28
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Newham College stands as London’s leading and most successful institution for vocational education, consistently recognized for excellence. For five consecutive years, the Department for Education has named Newham College the top-performing large Further Education (FE) college in the area.
As the first college to receive Ofsted’s kitemark for business collaboration, Newham College is celebrated for creating a clear route from study to employment. Partnering with the government and the Mayor of London, Newham College plays a key role in delivering critical skills initiatives like the London City Institute of Technology in Canning Town, the Mayoral Sector Skills Academies, and the Health Futures partnership with Barts NHS Trust in Stratford. With over £50 million in government and Mayoral funding, the college has developed state-of-the-art facilities for its students.
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We are recruiting for a term-time only Progress Tutor to join our College Tutor Team. To work as a tutor at the NewVIc campus you will be committed to student retention and wellbeing. You will work well with 16-19 year olds and contribute to a student-centred environment. You will have a genuine interest in young people and how they become resilient adults.
Skills and Experience
Tutors are responsible for supporting students to realise their academic and personal potential. The tutor’s role is key: they challenge students on their progress, attendance and work rate, as well as providing clear advice and support to ensure students get the best from their time at College. Tutors also monitor performance and build self-esteem and confidence through a rapport based on trust, honesty and respect. Tutors track and monitor attendance and punctuality and implement the College’s learning and behaviour policy to help students meet NewVIc’s expectations and succeed.
Moreover, tutors also help students to become informed, independent learners and support them in completing applications for university and training.
All students are assigned a tutor with whom they have group tutorials and individual progress reviews.
Students learn how to review their own progress and set SMART targets to improve; how to research careers and work towards their next steps; how to keep themselves safe and make safe choices; what British values are and what these mean for them at college and living in the UK; an understanding of equality and diversity.
In addition to the tutorial programme students have access to an impressively wide range of extra-curricular enrichment experiences aimed at developing students’ future employability skills. Tutors also contribute to this enrichment programme by delivering at least one enrichment activity.
Progress Tutors should be self-motivated and organised, with a flexible approach and the ability to multi-task. Excellent written English is essential to the role as is the ability to deliver group sessions, one-to-one support and enrichment activities. They are also expected to play an active role in the development of tutoring across the college and to participate in training to help them develop their skills and help them become more expert.
Tutors will be managed by the Tutorial Manager and usually specialise in one or two areas. They tutor across at least two levels. We currently have a particular need for tutors to work in Foundation Learning at level 1 and 2 as well as vacancies for level 2 and 3.
If you are passionate about supporting learners to achieve their full potential, then we would love to hear from you.
Closing date: Monday 6th January 2025
Interview date: TBC
Please note that we do not accept CVs
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What’s in it for you?
We offer the opportunity to help develop your skills and knowledge in a friendly team environment, plus a range of benefits including:
Competitive holiday entitlement, plus bank holidays
Generous Pension Scheme: Teacher pension or Local Government Scheme
Employee assistance – free confidential advice and counselling service
Travel Loan. Interest free loans to assist staff with meeting travel costs (T&Cs apply)
Excellent CPD opportunities for all staff
An incredible team of staff who are highly skilled, dynamic, and passionate about ensuring all our students receive the best overcome during their time at NewVic
Free access to our on-site gym
Staff discounts – we give our staff access to discounts to the latest home and Technology across all categories. (TECH Scheme)
Free onsite parking
Three Wellbeing Days
All staff members are eligible for a free annual eye health checkup, and a contribution towards spectacles. We also offer staff members an optional annual flu vaccination, and provide access to occupational health.
We are part of Cyclescheme, the UK's most popular cycle-to-work benefit.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
The College has a strong commitment to working towards the implementation of equality of opportunity in both service delivery and employment. The College’s mission and strategic objectives directly support this aim. All employees are required to actively support the development, dissemination and implementation of this aim and related policies and programmes.
Safeguarding of Children and Vulnerable Adults
The College is committed to safeguarding and promotes the welfare of all learners and expects its staff to share this commitment. All posts in the College are subject to a List 99 check and Disclosure and Barring Service check at Enhanced Level.
Recruitment Process
The email account you use to apply will be used for recruitment communication. Please ensure that you use an email account that you regularly monitor.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early, should we receive sufficient applications.
We regret that we are unable to respond to every application. Therefore, if you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume your application has not been successful.
Please email Jobs@newvic.ac.uk if you have any queries.
We regret that we are unable to respond to every application. Therefore, if you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume your application has not been successful.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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NewVIc strives to be an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment.
Due to the nature of our business and environment, the post for which you are applying is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, which means that candidates must disclose ‘spent convictions, cautions and reprimands’. A copy of our Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Policy is available on request.
We regret that we are unable to respond to every application. Therefore, if you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume your application has been unsuccessful.
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Please read the job description and the person specification carefully. Consider the extent to which you meet the person specification, and illustrate this in your application’s personal statement. You can include all relevant experience, including voluntary work.
We appreciate that if you are applying for a first post, you may have limited direct experience of some aspects of the work. This should not stop you from applying as long as you feel that overall you can show that you meet the criteria for the post.
When we draw up a longlist of candidates, we select those who most closely match the person specification. Unfortunately, we often receive applications where the candidate has not taken this into account. It is rare for these candidates to be longlisted.
You should give evidence of how you meet the criteria - please don't just quote them. You can write a paragraph on each requirement in turn, showing how you meet it. However, this might restrict your ability to present yourself as you wish. You may, therefore, organise your supporting statement more freely, while still considering the criteria.
Your application may be word-processed or handwritten. Good presentation and accurate expression are expected.
Your supporting statement should strictly be no more than 1,200 words.