Personal Learning Advisor in Business and Health

7 months ago


Leamington Spa, United Kingdom Royal Leamington Spa College Full time

**This role is pro rata, so the salary you will be receiving is £16,859.42- £18,477.43 per annum.**

**Protection of Children & Young Persons (The Children's Act 1989)**

**Background to the Post**

The Personal Learning Advisor (PLA) is responsible for delivering tutorials to groups of learners and individuals to meet study programme requirements. This includes monitoring the progress of students, delivering the pastoral tutorial programme; and providing support by signposting the students to other support services in the college. PLAs will work with a defined caseload of individuals and cohorts of learners.

The PLA will report directly to an identified Head of Department and receive direction, support and supervision from the Tutorial Manager for tutorials for standardisation of practice, training and development.

**Duties & Responsibilities**

Ensure that the College tutorial entitlement is available to all their students and that pastoral support is delivered as appropriate. The main duties of a PLA are:

- Pastoral tutorial support.
- Attendance and lateness monitoring.
- Follow up on poor behaviour identified on the Tutorial Notification Form.
- Act as a conduit to facilitate access other student services in the College such as learning support, counselling and welfare.
- Maintaining the electronic tutorial records and ‘_At Risk Register’. _
- Ensuring cross-College surveys are completed as required.
- Supporting the development of the College’s behaviour framework.
- Supporting the development of employability skills via work placements and enterprise opportunities.
- Supporting career progression to university, an apprenticeship, employment or other destinations.
- To constantly improve attendance, punctuality and retention for all students.

**Offers of Work**

**Essential Attainments**
- English language qualification at Level 2 (e.g. GCSE) or above or a willingness to undergo personal skills development to achieve Level 2 English during the first 12 months of the post.
- Experience of working with and supporting young people under 19 years old within the broad context of education.
- Ability to make own travel arrangements to all sites of Warwickshire College.
- Demonstrate excellent IT skills and have previous experience of using Microsoft Word and Excel.
- Effective administration skills and the ability to maintain accurate records.

**Essential Skills & Knowledge**
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- A flexible, enthusiastic and proactive approach.
- Good interpersonal skills and a willingness to work with colleagues at every level across the organisation.
- An ability to work well within a team and to relate to both staff and students.
- Willingness to undertake necessary training.
- Patient and non-judgemental approach.
- Ability to empathise and employ listening skills.
- Self-motivated and the ability to motivate students to achieve goals.
- Ability to manage own workload and meet deadlines.
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding and knowledge of Equality and Diversity.
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding and knowledge of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.
- Ability to demonstrate behaviours which support the Core Values of the College.

**For a full job description, please see attached below.**

As one of the leading further and higher education colleges in the UK, with unique colleges across two counties, WCG aims to deliver learning experiences which lead to the development of wider skill bases and improved destinations for all of our students.

For our staff, we offer careers in teaching, educational support and pastoral care and brilliant opportunities within our professional Corporate and Commercial Services departments. The professional opportunities here are almost endless and can be full-time, term time only, or part-time.

Our 2018 Ofsted inspection highlights our success and strong focus both on students and on meeting industry needs. We are also the first college group in the UK to be granted Bachelor degree awarding powers alongside Foundation degree awarding powers by the Office for Students - meaning the academic quality and standards of our degrees are equal to any university. As a college group, our ethos is that it's not just about the vital qualifications and knowledge learners need to get ahead, but the essential transferable skills to help them on their next steps, whatever they may be.

WCG helps students to develop an entrepreneurial mindset by instilling enterprising and innovative skills and behaviours, which helps them to become successful in an ever-competitive world. That’s why we are always on the look-out for skilled professionals to share their valuable expertise and help to plug skills gaps in their field by teaching at our colleges.

WCG is committed to providing the best experience possible for our learners and staff within a supportive, friendly, high-quality and technolo



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