Personal Tutor

We are seeking a permanent, full-time Personal Tutor to join our Student Services team. You will be responsible for students in a number of tutor groups with the aim of helping them settle into college, monitoring their overall progress, delivering our tutorial programme and helping them prepare to move on after their courses. You will meet your tutees up to twice a week in groups and individually from time to time. Because students take many different combinations of subjects, as a tutor, you will be responsible for their overall progress, including monitoring their attendance, discussing reports and liaising with their families. You will be working closely with the Head of Student Progress, a Head of Year, and the rest of the team in a very supportive and friendly environment.

We are looking for someone with enthusiasm and excellent interpersonal and organisational skills who is able to work under pressure and use their own initiative. Sound IT skills and excellent communication skills are essential.

The salary will be on the sixth form colleges’ support staff salary scale between points 17 and 19, currently £31,219 to £33,325 pro rata, depending on experience, plus £3,082 Outer London Weighting pro rata per annum. The actual full-time, term-time-only salary would be between £28,583 and £30,338 inclusive per annum.

In return, the following benefits are available:

• Very strong learning ethos
• Positive workplace culture
• Excellent pension schemes (TP and LGPS)
• Generous holiday entitlement (support staff)
• Option to apply to sabbatical schemes
• Internal CPD programme
• Well-resourced library for staff personal use
• Bike scheme
• Free eye tests and contribution towards glasses
• Free flu jabs 
• Workstation assessments
• Free parking on site
• Employee Assistance Programme – free counselling and support and guidance on a wide range of topics
• Wisdom Wellbeing App by Health Assured
• Excellent sports facilities for staff badminton, football and table tennis

About Us

Woodhouse College is one of the top-performing sixth form colleges in England, with large numbers of students each year progressing to Oxbridge, medical schools and leading research-intensive universities. It is academic in focus and appeals to students who are ambitious and, in the main, intend to go on to higher education. Being 16–19 only, it has the characteristics of a very large school sixth form, yet it has scale, diversity and a liberal, tolerant ethos often associated with colleges.

The College:

• Is one of the most successful, academic SFCs in England
• Has excellent staff, management and governance
• Enjoys a well-deserved reputation and is over-subscribed
• Benefits from a sound financial position
• Has well-maintained buildings on a pleasant campus in North Finchley
• Is secular, diverse and committed to equality and inclusion
• Has an outstanding pastoral support and extra-curricular offer
• Is focused on continuously improving

For more information and to apply, please visit www.woodhouse.ac.uk

Closing date: 9.00 am on Tuesday 15 October 2024.

The College is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from black and minority ethnic groups, who are currently underrepresented. The College is committed to safeguarding and the promotion of the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.