Apprenticeship Progress Coach

Job Title: Apprenticeship Progress Coach

Salary: £30,692 - £32,730 Per Annum

Interview Date: Friday 16th August 2024

Join Our Journey:

Become a part of our college community and enjoy numerous benefits and facilities, including:

• 32 days of annual leave, plus Bank Holidays, additional efficiency days, and college Christmas closedown
• Generous Pension Scheme
• Fantastic Staff Benefits and Rewards platform
• Employee Assistance Scheme
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity provisions
• Staff Development days/weeks (Jan, July, Aug)
• Free confidential counselling service
• Staff recognition awards
• Car Scheme
• Subsidised car parking
• On-site Day Nursery
• On-site hair and beauty salon

Role Overview:

As an Apprenticeship Progress Coach, you will work closely with the Team Leader to support the development of our future workforce across various construction disciplines and across other areas of the work-based learning team. Your expertise will create excellent learning experiences in an environment that fosters innovation, ambition, and well-being.

Key Responsibilities:

• Tailored Support: Identify and execute strategies for learner support, ensuring clear communication with learners, subject teachers, parents, guardians, and employers.
• Coaching & Facilitation: Provide coaching and facilitate skills support to ensure apprentices successfully complete their End-Point Assessment (EPA).
• Tripartite Reviews: Conduct necessary reviews with the apprentice's line manager and the apprentice for EPA success.
• Caseload Management: Manage an assigned caseload, ensuring performance targets are achieved.
• Pastoral Support: Offer pastoral support to apprentices, advising on matters like mitigating circumstances and extensions.

Essential Qualifications and Skills:

• Proven ability to build and sustain effective working relationships with employers and apprentices.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with experience in effective liaison with internal and external stakeholders.
• Knowledge of current issues in apprenticeships.
• Full driving license with the willingness and ability to travel across the North West.

Apply Today:

If you are dynamic and passionate about supporting the growth of others, apply now to join our team as an Apprenticeship Progress Coach and make a significant impact on apprentices and their career development.

Oldham College is a great career choice for ambitious professionals. With a “good” Ofsted rating, one of the best apprenticeship programmes in the region, excellent 16-18 results and truly outstanding GCSE English results, we are already a high performer.

But we want to deliver much more than this. Our ambition is to be “The Best Place to Learn and Work” and we have a clear Strategic Plan which sets out what this means and what we will do to deliver it. We will keep on improving and innovating, and we are investing in new provision, new facilities, and new technology; including our state-of-the-art clinical simulation suite.

We expect a lot from you, so we want ambitious, open minded candidates, who are ready to give their best. But we give a lot in return, from training to pensions, our own benefits package, and one of the best and most helpful group of colleagues you could ever wish to meet.  

At Oldham College, our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We encourage everyone to join us, as we create a workforce that is as diverse as our wonderful student community. We do monitor responses to our diversity questions in our application, to ensure that we can continue to build a workforce that is representative of the community that we serve.

We understand that not everyone works to the same timetable, and offer a range of flexible working options, including flexible start and finish times, part-time, term-time only or hybrid options, where the role permits.

We will do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, contact our HR team who will be happy to advise.

Oldham College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.

Any appointments will be subject to enhanced DBS checks and a check of the DfE Barred List.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable laws, a pre-employment screening could include, employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the role.

Further details including a Person Specification are included within the attached Job Description.