Pastoral Coach

About us:

Gower College Swansea is one of the largest colleges in Wales with a strong reputation for high quality teaching and learning. We have six campuses across the city with over 4,500 full time learners and 10,000 part time learners. We currently have a turnover of over £50 million making us a major employer in the region with approximately 1,000 staff.

At Gower College Swansea we are passionate about investing in our staff and looking after their wellbeing to ensure they feel supported in work and also at home.

The role:
An exciting opportunity has come up to work supporting learners in a new way.

• Full-time, Fixed Term until 30th June 2023
• £22,658 - £24,665 per annum

Key Responsibilities:

• Proactively work with learners and College staff (tutors and support services) to improve attendance, retention, attainment and address general behavioural issues.
• To work with the learner and the college staff to identify the appropriate intervention strategy needed to assist the learner to make appropriate progress.
• To maintain accurate, timely and updated entries of progress/intervention strategies on the student information database

About you:

• Experience of providing broad pastoral care with 14-19 year olds in an education setting.
• Ability to motivate, relate to and enthuse young people.
• Effective written communication.

Benefits for you:

• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, and the college is closed for two weeks over the Christmas period
• Free Parking
• Discounted study opportunities on College programmes
• View more benefits here: https://www.gcs.ac.uk/recruitment/benefits-and-wellbeing

We welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our organisation.

If you wish to continue your application journey using Welsh Language, please visit our Cymraeg site. We encourage Welsh Language applications as we recognise the importance of delivering services in Welsh, and the need to grow our bilingual workforce.

Gower College Swansea is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check and require registration with the Education Workforce Council for Wales.

Please note that we are expecting a high volume applicants for this vacancy. If we do, we may close the post before the specified date, therefore an early application is recommended.

Appointments will normally be made to the bottom of the salary scale with annual increments on 1st August each year (subject to a start date before 1st February).