Lead Tutor

Sheffield City Council; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Sheffield City Council is seeking an experienced Lead Tutor to provide leadership across vocational programmes including Digital Media, Creative Industries, Hospitality and Multi-Trades. You will drive high standards of teaching, learning and assessment and undertake internal moderation to ensure quality and equity for High Needs learners.

The role emphasizes leadership, safeguarding and inclusive education, with flexible working options discussed.

Qualifications

• Experience leading vocational education for SEND learners.
• Proven ability to lead team and quality assure provision.
• Commitment to inclusive education and safeguarding.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery across vocational curriculum areas including Digital Media, Intro to Creative Industries, Hospitality and Catering, and Multi-Trades.
• Undertake internal moderation and verification to ensure assessment quality and learner outcomes.
• Drive high standards of teaching, learning and assessment, support staff development.
• Ensure programmes meet needs and aspirations of learners with High Needs.

Skills

Leadership

Quality assurance

Staff development

Inclusive education

Job description

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

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.

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

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.