Yoga Tutor – Caritas St Joseph’s
Key information
Closing date: 12pm, Wednesday 31 July 2024
£2,274.20 per annum + report writing and training hours
Part-time, 2.5 hours per week
Permanent Contract
Based at St Joseph’s Pastoral Centre
Please find below the job description for this role:
Would you like to use your tutoring skills to help motivate and inspire students in the study of Yoga at the Diocese of Westminster?
What you’ll be doing
Working in the Archdiocese of Westminster for forty years, Caritas St. Joseph’s supports people with intellectual disabilities, their families and friends. It also offers classes for adults with intellectual disabilities.
We are recruiting a Yoga Tutor for our Caritas St Joseph’s service who will motivate and inspire students as well as assess their achievement and progress. As part of their role, the candidate will plan, deliver and evaluate the course, working in a ‘person-centred’ way with each student. You will also be able to manage the support staff and volunteers on the Yoga course.
Your primary focus will be to plan, deliver and evaluate the course. However, you will also actively participate in supervision and training sessions, as well as promoting the general progress and well-being of the individual students. You will be responsible for teaching and supporting the students to reach their full potential within their respective courses, whilst motivating and inspiring them as you assess their achievements and progress. You will work in accordance with St Joseph’s Pastoral Centre course planning, evaluation, and student monitoring systems whilst working.
This means there’s lots to get involved in – and to be excited about.
What we’re looking for
You’ll love working in a ‘person-centred’ role, teaching and supporting the students to reach their full potential, and managing the support staff and volunteers on the course. To be successful in this role, you will need to be able to work both independently as well as part of a team. Additionally, you will have excellent interpersonal skills, and an innate ability to motivate yourself, staff and students.
The successful candidate will play a pivotal role for the Caritas St Joseph’s team, as a flexible, determined and energetic individual, you will teach students about plays and the history of drama, assist them in creating their own artistic pieces, and direct/choreograph dance rehearsals.
We welcome applications from those with a Catholic faith, those of other faiths, or none. What we require above all else is that you respect the values we share to help others and support decent and dignified work for all without prejudice.
What we offer you
In return for your hard work and commitment to us, you will receive a competitive reward package which will include, but is not limited to:
- Life Assurance
- Access to Healthcare Cash Plan
- Discounts scheme through Reward Gateway – shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets gift cards and much more
- Season Ticket Loan
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Access to low cost loans with Churches Mutual
- Employee assistance programme– free, independent 24/7 help and advice for work-related issues as well as problems affecting home life
Who are we?
We are the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster, a faith-based charity with offices close to Victoria Train and Underground Station and just a short walk from St James Park and Westminster Underground stations.
We are home to the Archbishop of Westminster (Cardinal Vincent Nichols) & our beautiful Westminster Cathedral. We are one of the leading Catholic dioceses in the country, delivering our charitable mission through our network of 208 schools in which over 90,000 pupils attend daily, 212 parishes and several hundred social justice initiatives. We seek to positively impact the lives of all members of society.
Our core values are Competence, Reliability, Honesty, Perseverance & Love.
Our values are at the centre of everything we do and as such we are looking for a Tutor who is able to clearly demonstrate and evidence them
Application details
Our people are incredibly important to us, and we value and respect diversity in all its forms (seen and unseen). We particularly welcome applications from those from Black and Asian backgrounds, as well as candidates with disabilities and from the communities in which we work. We would like to increase representation of these groups among our staff as we know greater diversity will lead to an even greater impact for our work.
To be considered for the role, please complete an online application. CVs will NOT be considered, therefore, please do not send them. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted. Please note that you will need to be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this position. You must provide proof of Right to Work in the UK. We reserve the right to remove the vacancy before closing date.
Equal Opportunities & Living Wage Statement:
The Diocese of Westminster is an Equal Opportunities and accredited Living Wage employer. To be successful, we aspire to be person centered at all times and place human dignity at our centre. We aim at all times to recruit the person who is best suited to the job, and we welcome applications from all communities and underrepresented groups, regardless of race, sexual orientation, disability, faith, age and gender. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria. We strive to take a holistic approach to the development of our people so that we may better serve and empower the mission of our Church as ministered by the parishes, deaneries, schools and communities that we support. Our ambition is to work together to promote a more inclusive environment, which attracts all candidates and signals our commitment to celebrating and promoting diversity.
We want people from all walks of life to feel valued for their individuality, thrive in our organisation, share a sense of belonging and demonstrate our values. With this in mind, we positively celebrate Diversity & Inclusion at the Diocese of Westminster and place it at the heart of our aim which is to reflect and connect with the diverse communities that we serve.
Actions we take to provide equality of opportunity for all candidates include:
- We anonymise application forms during our shortlisting process to ensure that candidates are assessed without any consideration of their name, gender or background.
- As part of this anonymisation, we don’t take into consideration where candidates studied, or the method of that study e.g. full-time, part-time or distance learning.
- We apply a consistent approach to our question setting across our applications and interviews to ensure that everyone is assessed against the identified values, competencies and job requirements. Our values are important to us and as such we use a scoring framework that marks candidates based on values, behaviours and competencies.
- We provide guidance and brief all our interviewers throughout the selection processes in recruitment best-practice to mitigate against any potential for conscious or unconscious bias or discrimination.
- Whenever possible we will have multiple interviewers when assessing each candidate to ensure marking is accurate and fair.
- We ensure all our assessment venues are accessible. We offer alternative formats of our application forms to encourage applicants with disabilities or who require reasonable adjustments to perform at their best.
- We will work together with candidates with a disability or health condition to implement reasonable adjustments to enable them to feel comfortable and strive during the assessment process.