Lead Tutor

Sheffield City Council HQ; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Sheffield City Council HQ is seeking an experienced Lead Tutor - Vocational Programmes to lead and quality assure the vocational offer for High Needs learners, combining vocational expertise with leadership to raise standards.

You will provide leadership across Digital Media, Introduction to Creative Industries, Hospitality and Catering, and Multi-Trades; undertake internal moderation and verification activities to ensure assessment integrity; and work with tutors and curriculum teams to raise

Qualifications

• Experience leading vocational programmes in an educational setting.
• Ability to design, monitor and improve curriculum quality.
• Strong collaboration with curriculum teams and tutors to raise standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership across vocational curriculum areas.
• Undertake internal moderation and verification activities to ensure assessment integrity and learner outcomes.
• Drive high standards of teaching, learning and assessment across provision.
• Support staff development and ensure programmes meet High Needs learners’ needs.

Skills

Leadership

Curriculum leadership

Quality assurance

Staff development

Job description

Are you passionate about transforming the lives of learners SEND? Do you thrive on leading, inspiring and developing others while championing high-quality, inclusive education? If so, we would love to hear from you.

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Lead Tutor - Vocational Programmes to play a key role in leading and quality assuring our vocational offer for High Needs learners.

This is an exciting opportunity to combine your vocational expertise, leadership skills and commitment to inclusive education & teaching in a role that makes a genuine difference every day.

As Lead Tutor, you will provide leadership and support across a range of vocational curriculum areas, including Digital Media, Introduction to Creative Industries, Hospitality and Catering, and Multi-Trades.

A key aspect of the role will be undertaking internal moderation and verification activities, ensuring the quality, consistency and integrity of assessment practices and learner outcomes across the provision.

Working closely with Tutors, Lead Tutors and curriculum teams, you will drive high standards of teaching, learning and assessment, support staff development, and ensure programmes meet the needs and aspirations of learners with High Needs.

Join us and be part of a team that changes lives through education.

Informal Contact:

Laura Johnston [e-mail]

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form. Sometimes, if lots of people apply, we might not be able to interview everyone who qualifies for the Guarantee. In these cases, we'll interview the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyone and where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.