Are you passionate about developing strong, supportive relationships and promoting high expectations? Progress Coaches play a crucial role in ensuring students achieve their potential and successfully progress to higher education, apprenticeships, or employment.
The Progress Coach plays a vital role in supporting students’ personal, academic, and career development at USP College. Working closely with teaching staff, support services, and external partners, the Progress Coach provides tailored one-to-one and group sessions to help students set clear goals, overcome barriers to learning, and stay on track with their study programme. They act as a key point of contact for students, offering guidance on attendance, progression opportunities, wellbeing, and employability skills.
In addition to monitoring academic progress, the Progress Coach contributes to the delivery of pastoral care, enrichment activities, and life skills briefings designed to equip students with the knowledge and confidence needed for adult life. These briefings cover a range of relevant topics, including personal finance, digital safety, wellbeing, and employability. By developing strong, supportive relationships and promoting high expectations, Progress Coaches play a crucial role in ensuring students achieve their potential and successfully progress to higher education, apprenticeships, or employment.
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Our strategy is to create a Career Focused, Digital Learning environment, ensuring that the learner experience and our relationship within our community, local and regional employers, are at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to be selected as finalists for the AoC Beacon awards for effective use of digital Technology in FE. Providing a high achieving, focused learning environment allowing our students to achieve the grades they need for higher educations, or the skills and aptitude required to secure a suitable role in their chosen career. Our college is set in the leafy suburbs of Essex, with easy access to surrounding areas and amenities, we are based in a well-connected location both by road and rail.
* subject to terms & conditions
This role is considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
Shortlisted candidates will be required to complete a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Self-declaration is subject to Ministry of Justice guidance on the disclosure of criminal records, further information can be found on GOV UK
USP College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, we therefore expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service, and any other checks that the role requires to ascertain suitability for working with children and/or vulnerable adults, which may include online searches.
We will hold and process any personal data, including sensitive (special category) personal data, relating to you in accordance with our legal obligations, in the manner set out in the Privacy Notice for staff and in accordance with our Data Protection Policy, which is set out on the College’s website, found here. You should familiarise yourself with our Data Protection Policy (and all other subsidiary policies to it) and comply with them at all times. Neither the Privacy Notice for Staff nor those policies form a part of your contract of employment.