DTEC Talent Retention Officer
City College Plymouth, Kings Road, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 5QG14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
5 October 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
21 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- Business support, administration and corporate services
- Other support role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 Hours Per Week | One year fixed term contract in the first instance, subject to funding | £36,070 Per Annum
Contract type
- Fixed term - 12 Months
Full time equivalent salary
- 37 Hours Per Week | One year fixed term contract in the first instance, subject to funding | £36,070 Per Annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
37 Hours Per Week | One year fixed term contract in the first instance, subject to funding | £36,070 Per Annum
Who we are
At City College Plymouth you will be joining a college that is proud of its culture, where our core values of Respect, Ownership and Integrity are there to nurture and support a passion for teaching and learning, enriching our community through knowledge, experience and skills enabling every student to be the best they can be.
At City College Plymouth, one of the country’s largest providers of quality education and training, we are going through a period of transition to enable us to propel education into the future. We pride ourselves on delivering a learning environment and organisational culture that impact positively on the health, wellbeing and sustainability of our community and enables all our students and staff to achieve their full potential.
The Role
We are seeking a learner-focused professional to provide targeted mentoring, engagement and progression support across the DTEC. You will work directly with learners to identify and address barriers to participation, improve retention and achievement, and build confidence and readiness for progression into apprenticeships, higher technical study and defence-related employment. Working closely with curriculum, careers and employer-engagement colleagues, you will help ensure learners receive timely, personalised support and that those from underrepresented groups can access and sustain successful technical career pathways.
What Will You Bring to the Role
- Collaborating - Able to recognise changes in learner engagement, confidence and wellbeing, understand individual barriers and perspectives, and build supportive relationships that encourage participation and progression.
- Focused - Able to remain attentive to learner attendance, engagement and progress information, focus on the most important risks, and make timely and appropriate decisions about support and escalation.
- Learning - Able to learn from patterns in learner behaviour, feedback and outcomes, anticipate where disengagement or progression barriers may develop, and adapt interventions to the needs of individual learners.
- Persistence - Able to provide consistent support when learners experience setbacks, maintaining patience, confidence and determination and trying alternative approaches to help learners remain engaged and progress successfully.
What the college offers its staff
Benefits
City College Plymouth will offer you;
- Holiday: Up to 29 days plus bank holidays and College Closure over Christmas.
- Career development opportunities.
- Generous contributions towards your pension.
- Free tea, coffee and lunch in our dedicated staff lounge.
How we recruit
We aim to recruit based on potential, not experience. We are interested in seeing your behaviours in action and how they will help you become successful at City College Plymouth, giving everyone the opportunity to show their potential, regardless of background or experience.
After completing our online application form, you will be asked to complete an online assessment within a few days of this Vacancy closing. This assessment asks you no questions at all. Instead, it observes your behaviour and natural strengths in action, with a series of engaging, intuitive tasks. You will receive a report outlining your behaviours once you have completed the assessment, regardless of whether you progress to the next stage or not, providing you with some feedback.
The College welcomes applications from service leavers and the Armed Forces community, and supports those service leavers who are Reservists in any of the Armed Forces.
The College reserves the right to close this advertisement early if sufficient applications have been received.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on college website (opens in new tab)About City College Plymouth
- Organisation type
- FE College, ages 16 to 99
- Education phase
- Sixth form or FE college
- Size
- No information available
- Age range
- 16 to 99
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- Recruitment@cityplym.ac.uk
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