Progress Coach
Long Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 8PX15 days remaining to apply
Start date details
26th August 2025
Closing date
30 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
13 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,954.00 - £34,033.00 Annually (FTE) Actual Starting Salary £29,127.30
Progress Coach job summary
Progress Coach
Permanent 37 hours per week, Term-time only + 10 days £29,127.30 actual starting salary (£31,954 - £34,033 FTE) Required 26th August 2025
If you have you experience working with young people (16+) in an educational, youth work or club/voluntary setting and are interested in a career in education we want to hear from you.
We are seeking a motivated and reliable team-player to join our highly successful, established team of Progress Coaches. Responsible for a number of tutor groups and offering 1:1 guidance, you will be monitoring the academic progress and supporting the onward progression and broader College experience of an assigned group of KS5 students, helping them to achieve to their maximum potential. Prior knowledge and experience of working with young people aged 16-18 is preferable, as are excellent interpersonal skills.
To be successful, you will have excellent communication and administrative skills and a proactive working style, and will be adaptable, flexible, and enthusiastic. Like us, you will be passionate about the power of education, determined to set the highest standards in everything you do – and ready to learn and grow every day.
In return, we offer a comprehensive package of benefits including pension, travel discounts, free wi-fi, a cycle to work scheme and fantastic working facilities including free onsite parking and a fitness suite. You can also expect plenty of scope for professional development – enabling you to take your career anywhere further.
Long Road is a thriving, successful post-16 Sixth Form College with 2,600 students on roll across a variety of studies. Conveniently located close to the M11 and A14, within easy reach of several areas of outstanding natural beauty and the Norfolk and Suffolk coast, the college is set next to the Biomedical Campus in its own attractive grounds in the beautiful and expanding city of Cambridge. Long Road was judged by OFSTED to be Good or Outstanding in all five categories at its most recent inspection in February 2025.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Long Road Sixth Form College
- School type
- Academy, ages 16 to 19
- Education phase
- Sixth_form_or_college
- School size
- Up to 2600 pupils
- Age range
- 16 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Long Road Sixth Form College website
School location
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