Progress Facilitator - Apprenticeships

When you join our college, not only will you benefit from an annual reviewed salary but have access to numerous benefits and facilities: 

• 32 days annual leave per year, plus Bank Holidays, with additional efficiency days and all college Christmas closedown
• Generous Pension Scheme  
• Fantastic Staff Benefits and Rewards platform
• Employee Assistance Scheme
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity provision
• Staff Development days/week (Jan, July, Aug)
• Free confidential counselling service
• Staff recognition awards
• Car Scheme
• Subsidised car parking
• On-site Day Nursery
• On-site hair and beauty salon

Main Purpose of Role

To play a pivotal role in advancing the success of the Construction Division, with a particular focus on fostering exceptional student achievements in both Vocational subjects and subsequent career pathways.

This position will work closely with the Team Leader to enhance support for apprentices in mastering the knowledge, skills, and behaviours mandated by apprentices.

Key responsibilities-

• To identify and execute tailored support strategies for learners, fostering transparent communication with learners, subject teachers, parents, guardians, and employers.
• Planning, delivering, and evaluating underpinning knowledge and work-based learning, tracking overall progress for each apprentice
• Providing coaching and facilitating skills support to ensure successful completion of End-Point Assessment (EPA).
• Managing an assigned caseload and ensuring performance targets are achieved.
• Offering pastoral support to apprentices, advising on matters like mitigating circumstances and extensions.
• Vigorously monitoring and supporting learner progress through thorough analysis of tracking data and the implementation and review of targeted action plans.

To be successful in the role you will need

• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with employers and apprentices is essential.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including experience in liaising with external organisations, are necessary.
• Knowledge of current issues in apprenticeships, especially in Construction, is vital.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is required.
• Previous experience in delivering pastoral support is essential.
• Familiarity with assessment procedures in work-based learning, particularly in construction apprenticeships, is necessary.

Oldham College is a great career choice for ambitious professionals. With a “good” Ofsted rating, one of the best apprenticeship programmes in the region, excellent 16-18 results and truly outstanding GCSE English results, we are already a high performer.

But we want to deliver much more than this. Our ambition is to be “The Best Place to Learn and Work” and we have a clear Strategic Plan which sets out what this means and what we will do to deliver it. We will keep on improving and innovating, and we are investing in new provision, new facilities, and new technology; including our state-of-the-art clinical simulation suite.

We expect a lot from you, so we want ambitious, open minded candidates, who are ready to give their best. But we give a lot in return, from training to pensions, our own benefits package, and one of the best and most helpful group of colleagues you could ever wish to meet.  

The role will require you to embed and work to the college’s values; working with Integrity, having Ambition to help our learners succeed and being Inclusive to learners and colleagues alike.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable laws, a pre-employment screening could include, employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the role.

Oldham College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.

Any appointments will be subject to enhanced DBS checks and a check of the DfE Barred List

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation Act 1974. It is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children and vulnerable adults.