Job Details: Salary range: £34.49 per hour Work location: WAES 219 Lisson Grove, London, NW8 8LW Hours per week: Various Contract type: Permanent Variable Hours Vetting requirements: Basic DBS Check Closing date: 19 August 2025 Interview date: 28 August 2025 About Us: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF CAROL'S LIFE-CHANGING JOURNEY As the educational arm of Westminster City Council, Westminster Adult Education Service (WAES) is a world of extraordinary stories. From Childcare & Early Years Education to ESOL, and from Accounting and Digital to the Creative Arts and more, WAES's courses offer unparalleled opportunities to grow, develop and acquire new skills. People like Carol work to help everyone in our diverse communities to achieve their potential and transform their lives. Carol left a music industry career back in the 80s, to volunteer in a local nursery. It changed her life. Now she's managing a team to help create life-changing opportunities for children and families across Westminster and beyond. She's never looked back. She loves working in, and for the benefit of, her local community. From volunteering to getting a job in a nursery, to studying and becoming a Childcare Development lecturer, to joining Westminster City Council back in 1989, Carol has always seized every chance to keep learning and progressing. And now, she encourages her team to do the same. She puts her heart into enabling people's development. That's why Carol and Westminster are so well suited. We're all about nurturing people too. Carol's immensely proud of her team, many of whom joined as learners. They have qualified and progressed. And they've achieved an Outstanding Ofsted grading together. She's also proud that WAES can give opportunities to local people with potential. Just as enthused and ambitious now as she was 35 years ago, there are still goals Carol wants to achieve for her team, for learners, children and families. With Westminster, she's in exactly the right place to keep doing that. To find out more about our work visit The Role: As a Green Skills Tutor at WAES's new Green Skills Centre you can make your own powerful contribution to Westminster's success. Planning, organising and delivering exceptional and inspirational teaching activities, and delivering learning and feedback of the very highest quality, you'll be working to shape the Green Skills landscape as you prepare your students for roles in this important, fast growing industry. Creating exciting content and delivering engaging modules that reflect current industry practices and workflows and align with our wider programme, you'll track and monitor your students' progress through one-to-ones and tutorials, assess them in line with qualification specifications and awarding body requirements, and make referrals to Learning Support if necessary. Always ready to offer the advice, guidance and encouragement they'll need to maximise their opportunities, goals and ambitions, we'll also expect you to support your Managers and Course Leaders as we work to achieve our targets. Your additional tasks will include completing class registers correctly and keeping them up to date, applying the appropriate diagnostics to ensure learners are on the correct programme, and maintaining a strong focus on attendance, achievement and progression. WAES offers a supportive, collegiate and community-focused environment, one that encourages collaboration and innovation, and when you join us you'll be committed to making a positive impact on our learners' lives as they develop their careers in the Green Skills industry. Please refer to the for more information. About You: With proven knowledge of the latest ideas, developments and hands-on practice in the Green Skills industry, you'll have a qualification in a relevant subject at Level 3 or above, and good practical understanding of the UK's solar energy and retrofit industries. You should also hold a recognised teaching qualification at Level 3, current experience of teaching in a post-16/further education/adult education setting, and an assessor award (A1, TAQA, etc) or be ready to study for this. A highly motivating communicator with inspirational teaching and assessment skills, you'll be dedicated to your profession and your own ongoing development. With this in mind you should be ready to adopt the latest teaching methods, so it's important that you have experience of online tuition and using Virtual Learning Environments, or be prepared to work towards this. Our values and behaviours are at the heart of everything we do, and we'll expect you to follow the Westminster Way by empowering, engaging and encouraging everyone you work with to deliver our corporate vision. In addition, you should have a strong commitment to the principles of equity and diversity, and support and promote this in your interactions with people and your everyday work. Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role. What We Offer: Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council's strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city's future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe. 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 As a forward thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff 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. We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants. Westminster City Council. Location : Westminster, South West London, United Kingdom