Deputy Senior Tutor

St Catharine’s College, Cambridge is pleased to welcome applications for the newly created role of Deputy Senior Tutor.

This new post, reporting to the Senior Tutor, will support our mission to provide outstanding welfare and wellbeing provision to our community, which is at the forefront of collegiate wellbeing initiatives within the University. The post will have overall responsibility for delivery in these areas for all students within the College.

As well as being an important leadership role, this is an opportunity to work with the Senior Tutor and the pastoral teams to develop a long-term strategic plan for welfare and wellbeing at St Catharine’s.

The postholder will be required to maintain a balance between strategic leadership on wellbeing and a swift response to urgent individual concerns as they arise, supporting and coordinating efforts of the College Health and Wellbeing team and Tutors as they address particularly complex cases and providing face-to-face support as needed.

This is a pivotal role that will require the postholder to work across the community, engaging with a broad range of colleagues and stakeholders with the collegiate university so experience of teaching, advising, and supporting students, in an academic and pastoral capacity, within higher education is essential.   

Key responsibilities will include:

• Collaborating with the Senior Tutor, the Health and Wellbeing team and Tutors, to work on improving and reviewing current provision, and developing a long-term strategic plan for health and wellbeing within St Catharine’s.

• Engaging with the Health and Wellbeing team and Tutors to oversee day-to-day issues concerning students. Overseeing the continued development of a strong student health and wellbeing culture, ensuring a consistent and professional approach to all aspects of student wellbeing.

• Overseeing and engaging on a range of administrative processes to support students including (but not limited to) bursary processes, fitness to study procedures, supporting the Tutorial office with applications to the Examinations Access and Mitigations Committee.

• Being the designated Deputy College Safeguarding Lead (the Bursar is the College Safeguarding Lead) and attend the Safeguarding Advisory Group to ensure that the College has a robust safeguarding framework.

The successful applicant will be elected to a College Fellowship which offers additional privileges, opportunities and responsibilities within the College community. The postholder would also be welcome to explore the possibility of providing supervisions (small group college teaching sessions) if there was a teaching need within their subject area.

For full details on this unique and exciting new opportunity, please visit our website at: www.caths.cam.ac.uk/about-us/vacancies/deputy-senior-tutor