Child and Health Care Tutor/Teaching Assistant WCC622698

Job Details:

Salary range: £35.59 per hour
Work location: 215 Lisson Grove, London NW8 8LW
Hours per week: Variable
Contract type: Permanent
Vetting requirements: Basic DBS Check
Closing date: 16 November 2025
Interview date: 24 November 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 waes.ac.uk

The Role:

As a tutor/teaching assessor, you too can make a powerful contribution. We’re looking to fulfil a part-time position in the Care and Supporting Teaching Team, in the Westminster Adult Education Service. As a Service, we provide superb learning opportunities and qualifications to adults.

You’ll deliver well-prepared, high-quality lessons – including theory and practical demonstrations. You’ll secure suitable resources for lessons and check that learners are on programmes that suit them. Plus, you’ll monitor attendance and keep up-to-date class registers – intervening when absences are high. As well as ensuring that marking and assessment is carried out to a high standard in a timely manner, including Scheme of Work, Lesson Plans and termly Progress Reviews. At times, you’ll need to refer to Learning Support.

We’re a supportive team that strives for excellence and fun in all that we do. Join us and think up ways to make lessons more enriching. And benefit from seeing adults grow confident and able to take their lives in a new direction.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

To be a good fit, you’ll bring experience from the teaching field. This may have been from post 16 further or adult education, supporting teaching, or assessing Childcare or Health and Social Care – this has given you a confidence working in these settings. Ideally, you’ve assessed leaners in the workplace. You have strong classroom skills, complemented by excellent written and verbal communication. You’re a superb team player too. Strong IT skills are key, along with experience of using e-portfolio systems.

We welcome applicants with a Level 3 Diploma or higher in Caring for Children, Health and Social Care, or Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools. Ideally, candidates will also hold an assessing qualification (D32, A1, or TAQA) and a teaching qualification such as PTLLS or above.

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.