Fashion Design Tutor WCC623970

Job Details:

Salary range: £35.59 per hour.
Work location: WAES 219 Lisson Grove, London, NW8 8LW
Hours per week: Variable
Contract type: Permanent
Vetting requirements: Basic DBS Check 
Closing date: 25 May 2026
Interview date: 4 June 2026

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 Fashion Design Tutor in our Adult Education Service, you can make your own powerful contribution to people across Westminster. Responsible for providing high-quality teaching and learning experiences on our graphic design provision, you’ll support, inspire and challenge learners to fulfill their full potential.

Day-to-day, you’ll design resources and deliver them to learners, tracking their progress and providing advice and guidance through one-to-ones and tutorials. Carrying out marking and assessments, you’ll work proactively to maximise outcomes and identify progression opportunities for learners.

This is an hourly paid role, covering Thursdays 09:30am – 16:30pm from 17th September.

We are looking for an experienced and qualified Fashion Design tutor, to teach on our Level 1 UAL Diploma in Fashion Design course from Thursday 17th September,

You need to inspire and provide a transformative education to our adult learners (19+) from in and around London. You will be responsible for providing teaching, learning and assessments on our graphic design provision, and monitoring learner’s performance with opportunities to support them.

You will be responsible for delivering all elements of the program, providing support and guidance to the learners, ensuring they are challenged, inspired, complete their work in a timely manner, and excel in achievement.

Creative Industries at WAES is a very dynamic and growing department over three sites in Westminster, predominantly teaching accredited courses at levels 1,2 and 3, and full cost short courses.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

An established professional with a recognised teaching qualification (Level 3), and a qualification in fashion design at Level 4 or above, you’ll have experience of teaching adults on accredited courses.

With the proven ability to engage, inspire and motivate diverse groups of learners across mixed abilities, you’ll be committed to delivering an outstanding learner experience that prioritises the growth and development of your students.

Bringing some knowledge of current fashion design practice, you’ll be a person passionate about helping adult learners develop new skills, progress and achieve their goals. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic, welcoming department working at the heart of Westminster’s communities, and to supercharge your career in the process.

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.