Progress Coach

Job Title: Progress Coach

Status: 1x Permanent, 37 hours; 1x Maternity Cover, 37 hours

Closing Date: Midnight, Wednesday 23rd July 2025

Assessment Centre Date: 11th August 2025

About the role

As a Progress Coach, you will provide dedicated support to a caseload of students, to ensure they all make effective progress with their studies and develop the skills they need to be successful in their future lives. This is achieved through preparing and delivering high quality weekly group tutorial sessions as well as holding 1-1 tutorial conversations supporting students to break down barriers to learning.

You will also signpost students to access the right support from our specialist College services to enable them to overcome any barriers to learning and achieve their full potential.

You will play a key role in helping the College to achieve outstanding levels of student retention and achievement by tracking and monitoring learner progress and attendance in conjunction with our new attendance impact officers.

Key responsibilities:

• Conduct one-to-one meetings with individual students to provide individual support.
• Monitor student progress, retention, attendance and achievement rates.
• Work closely with other staff across the College, involved in the learner journey to ensure standardisation of the student experience.
• Provide additional academic coaching including study skills development as required
• Ensure all appropriate administration is completed in a timely manner in relation to each student

The successful candidate will have:

• Level 3 qualification.
• Recognised Teaching Qualification (or be willing to work towards one).
• Some experience of working directly with students/young people
• Some experience and/or knowledge of employability skills
• Ability to develop effective relationships with students on a 1:1 and group basis.

We can offer you:

• 35 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• A two-week festive/New Year shut down
• Generous pension scheme with an employer contribution of 20.8%
• Enhanced sick pay of up to 6 months full pay depending upon service
• On site gym membership available
• Pluxee reward scheme

For more information, please refer to the additional job description.

Please note this role constitutes ‘regulated activity’ as defined by the Protection of Freedom Act 2012. The successful candidate will therefore be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check with barred list information prior to starting employment. You must also have the right to work in the UK and will be required to provide evidence to support this. In addition, online checks will be carried out during the recruitment process. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Reaseheath College is committed to achieving its public sector general equality duty, which is set out in the Equality Act 2010. The College has a clear mission and clear values, which incorporate equality, diversity and inclusion.

The College staff recruitment and selection process, CPD processes, policies and practice are designed to ensure that when employment decisions are made, they are based solely on the skills and qualities required for the position and comply with all relevant employment legislation and best practice standards.

Disability Support

The College is a Disability Confident Employer and will support any reasonable adjustments you require to perform your best during the recruitment process. You can contact the HR team should you require any adjustments during either your application or during the assessment centre.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the advertised close date if we receive a sufficient number of applications.

We do not accept applications or speculative CVs through recruitment agencies.