Progress Coach (The Built Environment)

Educators Wales; Swansea; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

Salary: £26,907 - £29,242 Per Annum

About us:
Gower College Swansea is one of the largest colleges in Wales with a strong reputation for high-quality teaching and learning. We have six campuses across the city with over 4,500 full-time learners and 10,000 part-time learners. We currently have a turnover of over £50 million, making us a major employer in the region with approximately 1,000 staff.

At Gower College Swansea, we are passionate about investing in our staff and looking after their wellbeing to ensure they feel supported in work and also at home.

The role:
Join our team as a Progress Coach in our Built Environment learning area, where you will deliver engaging tutorials and provide essential support to help students achieve their full potential.

• Full-time (37 hours per week)
• Fixed term (Maternity cover - 1 year)
• £26,907 - £29,242 per annum
• Jubilee Court campus

Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting learners to achieve their goals, ensuring they are fully supported to succeed in their studies, helping them develop wider academic and other essential skills that will enable suitable progression.
• Deliver all aspects of our tutorial programme to full tutor groups including wellbeing and resilience material as well as mandatory aspects of our tutorial programme (e.g. safeguarding). You will also conduct regular one-to-one sessions with a cohort of learners, focusing on their targets, goals, and the support they need to achieve these.
• Proactively work with learners to improve attendance, retention, and attainment and address general behaviour issues, focusing on those ‘at risk', ensuring timely referral/communication with lecturers, Learning Area Managers, and other support teams.

About you:

• Hold or be working towards a degree or level 4 qualification and have 5 GCSEs grade C or equivalent.
• You must also be prepared to work towards a peer mentoring qualification.
• Experience of teaching and/or working with young people will be required, as well as experience of arranging activities and presenting.
• Flexibility is essential to work across different College sites.

Benefits for you:

• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, and the college is closed for two weeks over the Christmas period.
• A Local Government Pension Scheme with an average employer contribution of 21% (2023).
• 2 staff well-being days.
• Discounted study opportunities on College programmes.
• View more benefits here.

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We welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our organisation.

If you wish to continue your application journey using the Welsh Language, please visit our Cymraeg site. We encourage Welsh Language applications as we recognise the importance of delivering services in Welsh and the need to grow our bilingual workforce.

Gower College Swansea is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check and require registration with the Education Workforce Council for Wales.

Please note that we are expecting a high volume of applicants for this vacancy. If we do, we may close the post before the specified date; therefore, an early application is recommended.

Appointments will normally be made to the bottom of the salary scale with annual increments on 1st August each year (subject to a start date before 1st February).