Heart of Yorkshire Education Group
Progress Coach
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Progress Coach
Ref: 160250
Location: Wakefield College
Salary: £30,483 to £32,292 per annum
Hours: 37 hours per week
Weeks: 52 weeks per year
We have an exciting opportunity for a Progress Coach to join our motivated and enthusiastic Care & Early Years and Health & Social Care team. The role is varied with lots of opportunity to develop new skills and knowledge.
You will provide outstanding mentoring and support to our 16-19 learners, to ensure they achieve their highest potential, and have an excellent student experience!
You will be required to:
Hold 1-1 meetings with individual students to discuss their progress and overcome barriers to non-attendance and punctuality concerns, tracking and monitoring any impact. Develop positive relationships with students and their primary carer/s to support improvements in attendance and behaviour. Including contacting non-attending students and their primary carer/s to ensure safeguarding and continued engagement. Collaborate with other additional student support services to ensure all appropriate mechanisms are in place to allow a student to progress well and succeed. Support curriculum in delivering effective Behaviour Regulation Meetings, focusing on relational and trauma informed practices.
As a Progress Coach, you should be confident, well organised, and proactive with good IT skills and a commitment to providing excellent customer service.
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You will have:
GCSE English and Maths A*-C/9-4 or equivalent Experience of supporting students within an educational environment Experience of working within a training, Further Education or school environment
For further details, please refer to the job description and person specification attached.
If you have the skills and experience, we are looking for, we would love to hear from you.
Values
Here at the Heart of Yorkshire Education Group, our Values are at the heart of everything we do. Watch our Principal and CEO, Sam Wright, and Group Chair of Governors, Andrew McConnell, explain how we carry out our values every day - Click to watch
See what we have to offer and come and join us. You won’t be disappointed.
Benefits include:
Generous Annual Leave (30 days + bank holidays + 5 College closure days) Personal and Professional Development opportunities Generous Contributory Pension Scheme Discounted Metro Card Scheme Cycle to Work Scheme Access to employee assistance programme Reduced price personal gym membership Access to a wide range of high street discounts (retail, supermarkets and restaurants) Annual Staff Recognition Awards
Find out more here.
Closing date: Friday 22nd May
Interview date: Tuesday 2nd June
The Heart of Yorkshire Education Group is committed to safeguarding the welfare of all students and this post will be subject to pre-employment vetting in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education, this includes an Enhanced Disclosure from the DBS. Sight of evidence of all essential qualifications as outlined in the Person Specification must also be provided.
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All posts within the Group are exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. This means that applicants are not entitled to withhold information about any convictions that are not "Protected" which for other purposes are "spent" under the provisions of the act.
If you are currently living overseas or have lived / worked overseas in the last five years please be aware that you will be required to provide an overseas criminal record check from the country/countries you have worked/resided in if you are the preferred candidate for the post. Further details of how to obtain the additional check is here: Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk )
We are proud to be awarded the Investors in Diversity Silver accreditation by the National Centre for Diversity, for our successful implementation of FREDIE (Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Engagement). We aim to develop a workforce that reflects the diverse community we serve and positively encourage applications from all
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