Lewisham College aspires to be the provider of choice for young people in Lewisham and the surrounding boroughs. We are looking for a talented, enthusiastic, and energetic Progress Coach to join us in creating bright futures for our young Creative learners. Are you passionate about striving to understand the individual needs of learners and giving them the best possible support and motivation to achieve their aspirations? Do you want to make a profound difference to the opportunities and life chances of our learners? This is a pastoral role to provide additional tuition and coaching to small groups of learners and individual students to address support needs. You will be case managing individual students providing intervention and referrals cross college. This will include supporting learners to develop essential learning skills - organisation, communication, critical thinking, problem solving, digital literacy, motivation, resilience, confidence. Working with the teaching team, you will provide support for learners to improve attendance, punctuality, behaviour and achievement. Taking a restorative approach, you will work with staff and learners to find solutions to challenges and build relationships effectively. You will liaise with parent and other external agents including social workers to ensure successful outcome. Your work will be challenging and rewarding in equal measure and you will be working in a college where we maintain a strong safeguarding culture, where learners are listened to, respected and involved in as many decisions as possible. You are highly motivated, confident and communicate effectively. Quality is crucial for us and you will be well organised, have a good eye for detail and have high expectations. You will have expertise in working with young Creative learners and supporting young people aged 16-19, across a wide range of backgrounds and abilities. The Creative department is a well-respected and positive place to work, where colleagues work effectively together to ensure all stakeholders get the best value from every aspect of the curriculum. About Lewisham College Lewisham College is a large further education college in London and we’re proud of our reputation for producing knowledgeable, successful students with great employment potential. We offer an exciting range of work-focused courses, and provide a friendly, supportive learning environment where talent is nurtured. We have achieved excellent results in recent years, but we know that we can only continue our success, and grow, by recruiting and retaining the best possible talent. We set out to employ staff with a genuine passion for further education and a commitment to ensuring all students achieve their potential, whatever barriers they need to overcome. Our people make a real difference not only to the lives of students, but also to local employers and the wider Lewisham community. Every colleague has a valuable and important part to play here at Lewisham College and all of our employees are well-supported. We offer a wide range of staff development programmes, benefits and support all designed to enable our people to continually improve and reward them for their hard work and dedication. If you have a passion for education and its power to improve lives, and want to inspire young people and adults, we’d love to welcome you to our team. Lewisham College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff to share this commitment. At Lewisham College, our values are not just about what we do, but also about how we do things. Our values underpin the culture and beliefs of our organisation, we expect all our staff to demonstrate behaviours in line with our core values. 1. Being both inclusive and diverse 2. Trusting and respecting our communities 3. Taking ownership whilst working collaboratively 4. Inspiring excellence and curiosity. As part of the NCG Group, Lewisham College offers an excellent benefits package, including generous holiday entitlement, access to the Teachers’ pension scheme (for teaching posts) or Local Government pension scheme (non-teaching posts), company sick pay, a cycle to work scheme and much more. NCG seeks to promote and maintain an equal, diverse, inclusive and supportive environment for work and study that assists all members of our communities to reach their full potential. We are committed to achieving a truly representative workforce and therefore welcome applications from across the national and regional communities that we work with and serve. No agency applications will be accepted. NCG reserve the right to close the vacancy early.