Worcester Sixth Form College

Spetchley Road

Worcester

WR5 2LU

Tel: 01905 362600

Pastoral Tutor (Permanent Full-time, term-time plus two weeks)

Actual starting salary will be £19,521 based on the Sixth Form Colleges’ Support Staff Salary Spine points 10-12 (currently £22,254 - £23,730 pro-rata).

Appointment will normally be to point 10. A term-time factor of 0.8772 is used to calculate salary, which is spread equally throughout the year.

The College is seeking a permanent Pastoral Tutor to work full time 37 hours per 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. 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 three 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 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.  

Please note that the deadline for interviews is noon on Tuesday, 30th August 2022 and interviews will take place shortly afterwards.

The College and all its personnel are committed to equal opportunities, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young persons and vulnerable adults.  Subject to Enhanced DBS check.

Please visit the College website for further details and to complete an application form.  Please do not complete the application form for WCC.