Fashion Design Tutor

Start Date: September 2024

Hours per week: Monday’s All Day
Contract type: Variable Hours/Permanent Contract
Vetting requirements: Basic DBS Check
Closing date:  9am Monday 22 July 2024

Interview date: Thursday 1 August 2024 at Lisson Grove

About Us:

Westminster Adult Education Service is a leading provider of adult education in London, committed to empowering individuals through lifelong learning. Our work environment is stimulating and inclusive, promotes diversity and fosters personal growth. Join us in our mission to inspire lifelong learning in our communities and become an integral part of our team. If you are ready to elevate your career, apply today and be part of our exciting journey at Westminster Adult Education Service.

The Role:

We are looking for an experienced and qualified Fashion Design tutor, to teach on our Level 1 UAL Diploma in Fashion Design course from Monday 9 September, https://www.waes.ac.uk/courses/cat/ccu/fashion/C0044/

You need to inspire and provide a transformative education to our adult learners (19+) from in and around London. You will be responsible for providing teaching, learning, and assessments on our graphic design provision, and monitoring learner’s performance with opportunities to support them.

You will be responsible for delivering all elements of the program, providing support and guidance to the learners, ensuring they are challenged, inspired, complete their work in a timely manner, and excel in achievement.
Creative Industries at WAES is a very dynamic and growing department over three sites in Westminster, predominantly teaching accredited courses at levels 1,2 and 3, and full cost short courses.

Key responsibilities:

• Designing resources for and delivering to our adult learners, in line with curriculum and qualification requirements ensuring our learners are inspired, challenged, and achieve,
• Supporting the fashion design curriculum where required, for example, course advice and guidance for prospective learners, open days, end of year show.
• Summative and formative assessments as part of the learners' journey
• Tracking learner's progress through timely and accurate reporting

• Liaising with relevant stakeholders and fellow creative arts staff,
• Ensuring an ‘outstanding’ teaching and learning experience including Individual Learning Plans and quality assurance implementation and feedback.

To apply for this post, please complete the WAES Application Form and EO Monitoring Form from our website.

Please ensure you address all the role and person criteria when completing your supporting statement.

When you have completed your application, please email the application back to recruitment@waes.ac.uk 

About You:

• Relevant experience and industry knowledge of current fashion design practice
• Experience of teaching adults on accredited courses.
• Proven ability to work with diverse groups of learners across mixed abilities to ensure their successful progression
  and achievement
• You must have a qualification in the subject area at Level 4 or above
• Ideally you should have a teaching qualification at Level 3 or above or be willing to do one in your first year of employment.
• You must be free on Mondays, 09.30 – 16.30 from 9 September
• Commitment to outstanding teaching and the learner experience
• Commitment to your own professional development

What we offer: 

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit  https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties [westminster.gov.uk]

As a forward-thinking Council, we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore some of our staff depending on their role at WAES can benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

The Service offers a competitive salary and employment benefits including a public sector pension scheme, generous holiday allowance and opportunities for Continuous Professional Development.  

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