Senior Lead Primary Tutor

About us at Hounslow

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

About The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our LEAD Tuition Team as a Senior Tutor. In this role, you’ll be primarily working on enhancing the engagement and learning experience for students who are often out of education.

Responsible for planning and managing the successful delivery of tuition for Primary age students. The Senior tutor will have overall responsibility for the operational delivery of tuition across pupils’ within the community and student homes and management of associated staffing.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

LEAD (Learn, Enrich & Develop) Tuition is a new in-house service, created to support the growing needs of students unable to access traditional school environments. The service prioritises personal growth and aims to develop the skills necessary for lifelong success so every student will be empowered to achieve their full potential.

The Senior LEAD Primary Tutor role will compromise of overseeing a team of tutors providing inspirational leadership so they aspire to achieve the highest possible standards.

Responsible for the operational planning and delivery of tuition through timetabling, venue, and tutor allocation, in addition to implementing a schedule of observations for teaching, learning and assessment that ensure the standards being delivered across the service are accurately evaluated in line with current Ofsted standards.

You will support and advise the LEAD Service manager in the development of an imaginative, forward-looking curriculum and transformational transition programme designed to meet the needs of pupils, and support effective reintegration to full time educational provision.

About You

If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:

Team Leadership: Overseeing team of tutors, providing guidance and mentoring, ensuring standards are met.

Teaching Experience: Proven ability to explain complex topics clearly and tailor lessons to meet individual student needs.

Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey information and interact with students, parents, and possibly other educators.

Organization and Time Management: The ability to plan lessons, manage time effectively, and ensure that learning goals are being met.

Problem-Solving Skills: Capacity to identify learning challenges and create strategies to overcome them.

Professionalism: Punctuality, reliability, and maintaining professional boundaries with students and parents.

Essential for the Role

Enhanced DBS check is required for the role.

HOW TO APPLY:

Please view the attached Job Description / Person Specification and then click the APPLY button below to apply online. 

Don’t meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the Role Profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

Email: Corinne.Slee@hounslow.gov.uk