Progress Coach

Please note this role is based in Ripon, North Yorkshire

Craven College is an aspirational College set in friendly and inclusive rural campuses in Skipton within the beautiful Yorkshire Dales, at The Aviation Academy based airside at Leeds Bradford Airport and at Evolve in the heart of Ripon. We are a Good College (Ofsted 2018) and offer full-time courses for 16-18 year olds, outstanding apprenticeships, courses for young people with special educational needs, part-time courses and degree level courses with a mission statement of ‘enriching lives through learning’. Tyro Training is our commercial training division which offers a wide range of training courses for both individuals and businesses in Skipton.

We continuously invest in our excellent, industry standard facilities with a new £1.6m purpose-built Animal Management Centre on our Aireville Campus to be followed in 2021 by the construction of new equestrian facilities including an international sized arena and outdoor warm up area.

We are currently looking to hire an enthusiastic and motivated Progress Coach to work at our Ripon Campus. The Progress Coach will work in close liaison with the Head of Evolve, teaching staff and support staff to be responsible for supporting the process, performance and wellbeing of a caseload of students. You will plan and deliver one-to-one and group tutorials in line with College requirements and complete all associated records and administrative tasks appertaining to the progress of students. To identify where further support is required and refer students to Student Support Services or make appropriate referrals

Essential requirements:

• Previous experience of working with young people

• Experience of working to challenging targets and be able to work in a changeable environment where personal performance can be measured and successful teamwork is essential

• Experience of carrying out negotiations between several parties ensuring satisfactory agreement is brokered

• Experience of working with personal information in a confidential and sensitive manner

• Experience of working with Health and Safety Regulations/Risk Assessment

• Competent to use a range of computer systems and software including spreadsheets and databases with the ability to analyse data

• Ability to relate well to and develop a good rapport with individual or groups from a diverse background, age range and levels of ability

• Ability to act with integrity, sensitivity, care and diplomacy

• Understanding of the fundamentals of learning and development and barriers to learning

• Enthusiasm for education and learning

• Excellent interpersonal skills, including active listening, questioning techniques and ability to inspire and challenge students

• Ability to work effectively as part of a team

• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to organise and prioritise work ensuring timely management of own workload

• Ability to work on own initiative and to a consistently high standard under pressure to pre-determined deadlines

• Excellent administrative skills with the ability to produce management information, reports and statistics and monitoring targets

• Qualified to at least Level 3 (A level equivalent)

• Qualified to Level 2 (GCSE Grade A*-C or equivalent) in English and Math's (or willing to work towards completion within a specified time frame);

An enhanced disclosure check with the Disclosure & Barring Service will be undertaken for this post.

We’re committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expect staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Closing date Sunday 03 October 2021 

For further information including a full job description and to apply, please visit our website 

If you have not heard from us within 28 days of the closing date on this occasion you have not been shortlisted. However please feel free to apply for futures roles as appropriate