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Specialist Academic Skills Tutor
Book, Witt & Conway Libraries
Salary: £41,067 per annum pro rata, inclusive of LWA Permanent / Part time Closing Date: Tuesday 29 August 2023 Interview Date: To be confirmed Reference: 581
The Courtauld works to advance how we see and understand the visual arts, as an internationally renowned centre for the teaching, research of art history and a major public gallery.
The Courtauld is a small specialist university and home to the largest community of art historians and conservators in the UK. The Courtauld offers a range of degree programmes from BA to PhD in the History of Art, curating and the conservation of easel and wall paintings.
The main purpose of the Specialist Academic Skills Tutor is to provide individuals with Specific Learning Difference (SpLD) an opportunity to participate in and benefit from their teaching with specialist academic and study skills. Helping students develop as individual learners and maintain the necessary resilience and focus on academic progress despite the challenges faced because of their disability.
Reporting to the Learning Experience Manager in the Library team, this role works closely with academic colleagues, and Student and Academic Services (SAS) staff (particularly the Wellbeing Manager) to ensure that the Institute implements reasonable adjustments and provides additional study aids to improve individual disabled student’s access to learning. Tutors provide support both face to face and via real time remote methods of delivery (Teams).
As a permanent member of the library team, you will also be responsible for supporting the service with additional duties including supporting the management team to develop the service provision by delivering small group sessions to students as well as creating and delivering relevant workshops to students. As part of the role you will be speaking to students when they have missed sessions to encourage to re-engagement. You will be working on new and innovative ways to engage our students and support our students through various projects.
It is essential that the successful candidate holds a professionally accredited approved SpLD teaching qualification, as well as the professional body membership outlined in the DfE mandatory qualification criteria for the role of Specialist one-to-one Study Skills and Strategy Support - Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD), which can be found here: