Progress Mentor
The Blackpool Sixth Form College, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY3 7LR35 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as pre-employment checks are complete
Closing date
22 January 2026 at 9am
Date listed
18 December 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
- £26,755.00 - £28,297.00 per annum, staff term time only plus 5 days
Progress Mentor job summary
Progress Mentor
£26,755 to £28,297 per annum for a staff term time only plus 5 days' role.
Do you have experience working with young people and a real knack for building trust and rapport? Are you passionate about supporting young people to thrive? Do you love the idea of being a go-to guide, motivator, and mentor for ambitious students?
If you have answered YES to these questions then we want to hear from you!
At Blackpool Sixth, we’re proud to be a first-class college dedicated to 16–19 education. We’re on the lookout for a Progress Mentor to join our fantastic Student Services team on a permanent basis. The successful candidate will be working 36.25 hours a week over 5 days, college staff term time only (plus 5 additional days). This is a fantastic opportunity to be a part of the college-wide pastoral team where you will be supporting a wonderful group of highly ambitious students studying on a range of courses.
As a Progress Mentor, you’ll be a key part of our pastoral support network; building positive relationships with your own cohort of students, delivering sessions on life skills and wellbeing, and helping each individual to unlock their full potential.
This role is perfect for someone who’s passionate about supporting students; someone who builds meaningful connections, helps remove barriers to learning, and is committed to helping every individual reach their full potential. At the same time, you’ll be confident in upholding high standards, expectations and discipline, working within established college systems to create a positive, focused learning environment.
A day in your new role could see you:
- Delivering engaging, supportive group sessions as part of our pastoral curriculum
- Having meaningful one-to-one conversations that support students with attendance, progress and next steps
- Setting SMART targets to keep students motivated and on track
- Following up student absences and setting high expectations for attendance
- Working closely with support teams to break down any barriers to learning
- Offering guidance on future pathways – whether that’s university, apprenticeships, work or a well-deserved gap year
Ready to help shape young futures? Apply now and be part of the magic that is Blackpool Sixth!
Find everything you need here to get started with your online application.
Closing date: 22nd January 2026 at 9:00am
Assessment day: 29th January 2026
The benefits
Our people are extremely important to us and we are therefore delighted to provide the following benefits:-
- Cycle to work scheme for contracts over 12 months
- Free use of the college gym
- Generous pension contributions
- Education specific learning and development
- Free car parking
- Subsidised Costa Coffee on site and a wide range of catering outlets
- An in house People & Wellbeing site with loads of self-help guidance
- Access to wellbeing and counselling services for you and your family
- Long service awards recognising loyalty and dedication
- 15 hours of gifted TOIL (pro-rata) to use for flexibility throughout the year
- Family friendly policies to support our staff with parenting and caring responsibilities
- Wellbeing day each academic year with the full day off for all
- Be yourself; enjoy being part of a culture and community with different backgrounds, interests, faiths and lifestyles
Equal Opportunities and Safer Recruitment Practices
We are an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of a protected characteristic, or is disadvantaged by any conditions or any related individual requirements. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and all diverse groups. The college provides equality of access, services and care to everyone, regardless of people’s age, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression or trans status, race, religion or belief or sexual orientation.
All staff will be carefully selected using recruitment and selection procedures designed to emphasise the college’s commitment to safeguarding. All posts, including volunteers, are subject to enhanced DBS clearance. All shortlisted applicants will be asked to complete a self-declaration of any criminal record or information that will make them unsuitable to work with children. Any offer of employment may be withdrawn should any information come to light that has not been included in the self-declaration. It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from regulated activity relevant to children, anyone caught doing so will be reported to the police immediately. Please note that we reserve the right to review your online presence in line with keeping children safe in education guidance.
Think of your application as a chance to show off and shout about your experience! Below is a list of all the skills we're looking for, so don't be shy, make sure you highlight how you've used them. You'll find a breakdown of what's important for this role in the job description, so give it a good look and make sure your application shines!
Please do not upload your CV; we cannot consider these. Instead make sure that everything we need to know is included in your application.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About The Blackpool Sixth Form College
- School type
- Academy, ages 16 to 19
- Education phase
- Sixth form or college
- School size
- No information available
- Age range
- 16 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- The Blackpool Sixth Form College website
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