Learning and Skills Coach

East Kent College; Canterbury; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 27 days

Teacher training funding

Discounts & perks

Flexible personal leave

Wellbeing support

Staff recognition events

Pension 8%

Job summary

East Kent College is seeking a Learning and Skills Coach to support students in English, maths, study skills and digital skills. You will work one-to-one and in small groups, delivering engaging sessions and collaborating with a team of coaches across the College.

The role focuses on unlocking students' potential through tailored interventions, tracking progress, and helping learners develop crucial academic and digital competencies for their future careers.

Qualifications

• Highly organized and creative in session design.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse students.
• Ability to assess and adapt sessions for individual and small-group needs.
• Passion for improving literacy, numeracy, study and digital skills.

Responsibilities

• Support students one-to-one and in small groups.
• Deliver sessions on English, maths, study skills and digital skills.
• Assess and track student progress to plan interventions.
• Collaborate with the coaching team to cover different aspects of the provision.

Skills

Organised

Interpersonal skills

Session planning

Literacy/numeracy support

Job description

About The Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen at EKC Canterbury College as a Learning and Skills Coach. Are you passionate about supporting students to achieve their full potential? Do you believe in the power of literacy and numeracy to open doors to opportunities? Can you support students to unlock key study and digital skills?

As a Learning and Skills Coach you will support students one-to-one and in small groups, delivering sessions on English, maths, study skills and digital skills. You will work as part of a team of coaches who work across the College, which means that we can play to each team member's strengths to deliver different aspects of our provision.

Benefits

• Generous Annual Leave - 27 days FTE per annum
• Learning and Development Opportunities: if you are interested in developing into teaching, you could benefit from our £7000 investment into teacher training through our in-house Teaching Academy, 3-4 annual paid group developing days, bespoke training programmes and strong internal progression - 1 in 3 roles are filled internally.
• Exclusive Discounts & Perks including restaurant, grocery, retail and holiday discounts, as well as car leasing and tech purchasing schemes, and an on-site nursery.
• Flexible Personal Leave with time off for your child's first day at nursery or school, moving homes and for interviews.
• Wellbeing and Health Support with generous sick pay, counselling services, discounted gym membership at Canterbury College
• Culture and Recognition through our Community Days, an annual Staff Celebration Day, and the fact that we are an eco-friendly organisation dedicated to reaching net-zero by 2030.
• Competitive Pension Scheme with an 8% employer contribution.

About You

You will be highly organised, creative, and able to plan engaging and innovative sessions with demonstrated interpersonal skills.

Assessing and tracking student progress to further plan interventions will be a vital part of the role, as well as ensuring all students develop the skills they need to succeed.

You will be passionate about making a difference to the future careers of our students, providing academic and pastoral support.

About Us

Outstanding Ofsted Provider

East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our ‘Strong’ skills grading by Ofsted.

Commitment to Safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles.

As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults. These checks include conviction/caution self-declaration, Enhanced DBS check and obtaining sufficient referencing.

It is a criminal offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so.

If you are successful in being shortlisted to interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.

Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

East Kent Colleges Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of our communities. We are particularly keen to increase the diversity of our staff body and encourage applications from candidates where there is underrepresentation in our workforce.

We are proud to hold the Positive About Disability Award and are a Disability Confident Employer. This confirms our commitment to interviewing all applicants who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. With any successful candidate, we will explore any reasonable adjustments to a role due to a health needs or disability.

Similarly, we have a commitment to Care Leavers (Care Covenant Pledge) and to current or previous Armed Forces personnel (Armed Forces Covenant Pledge) with a commitment to interview applicants who meet the positions essential criteria and have declared this on their application.

We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.

We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.