Job Description

Tutor - Textiles/Pottery

Salary Range: 8,322.34 - 10,739.83

(salary based on 16 hours per /2 days per week 37 weeks per year)

FTE: 25,494.48 - 32,900.20

Closing date: 8th July 2025

Interview date: 9th or 11th July (mornings)

We have an exciting opportunity for a Tutor to teach either Textiles, Pottery or both to groups of students with mixed abilities, aged 16 to 25, at Coleg Plas Dwbl in Pembrokeshire. You will be responsible for the delivery of teaching and learning within a practical skills environment, you will encourage learners to experiment with and share their own creativity with others and help them to develop confidence and their ability to display their products with their peers and community.

The ideal candidate will have experience in teaching and hold a teaching qualification. However, we would still welcome applications from individuals who have not yet achieved this but are willing to train and learn.

You will also be expected to attend training sessions as required by the Trust, which may be outside of your usual working hours.

The key duties in this role will include:

You must be able to instil enthusiasm and enjoyment into the learning process in such a way that can lead to increased self-esteem and enhanced engagement in learning.

To plan and deliver Pottery/Textiles sessions and teach the students how to produce practical and meaningful items from the materials at source (clay) into community orientated projects and items. Ensuring students engage in learning and achieve: through careful planning of the structure, methodology and delivery of the learning experience.
Delivering teaching and training with a therapeutic and supportive approach, wherever possible linking students learning activities through a methodology of the Trust, Practical Skills Therapeutic Education.

To be a part of ongoing assessment of students learning needs and to make reasonable adjustments as required minimising barriers to learning and achievement.

To familiarise with student background information, profile and risk assessment wherever reasonably possible.

Working at Ruskin Mill Trust is incredibly rewarding; we offer competitive salaries and holiday allowances, an auto-enrolment pension scheme with a salary sacrifice option, a health cash plan and employee assistance programme via Medicash.

In addition, staff receive valuable training opportunities including an in-depth interactive induction to enable our new team members to experience our Practical Skills Therapeutic Education (PSTE) curriculum and also opportunities for further training and academic research including our own MSc in Practical Skills Therapeutic Education.

Full details of our benefits can be viewed on www.rmt.org/careers

Coleg Plas Dwbl sits on biodynamic farmland at the foot of the Preseli Mountains in the Welsh countryside. The 100-acre location offers a wealth of natural materials that are used in our curriculum crafts. These include clay for pottery, slate and stone, and wool from the sheep. Coleg. Plas Dwbl's signature craft is textiles.

Coleg Plas Dwbl is part of Ruskin Mill Trust.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service Enhanced Level Disclosure as well as a medical check, references, evidence of qualifications, plus verification of the right to work in the UK.

Job Types: Part-time, Permanent

Pay: 25,494.00-32,900.00 per year

Expected hours: 16 per week

Benefits:

Casual dress Company pension Discounted or free food Free parking Health & wellbeing programme On-site parking Referral programme
Schedule:

Day shift Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 08/07/2025
Reference ID: INDHP
Expected start date: 01/09/2025