Skills Coach

**_Skills Coach - Functional Skills - Maths and English Specialist_**

Are you an inspiring and motivational mentor, with a passion to provide pastoral advice and guidance to help learners reach their potential and succeed in their Future Skills English and Maths programmes? We are looking for a passionate, curious and motivating industry professionals to join our team as a Skills Coach to share their expertise with cohorts of engaged and motivated learners.

If you have knowledge and experience within the Employability and Future Skills industry and the determination to provide an exceptional customer experience with the willingness to work on a remote basis and be part of our journey of Developing Better Futures, then we want to hear from you
- You can see more about this fantastic role below and in the job description attached._

**Summary of role**

You will be responsible for Coaching & Mentoring learners working towards the successful and timely achievement of their learning programme. Creating and maintaining cohesive and communicative relationships with learners and employers. Providing blended academic and pastoral advice, guidance, and support, ensuring a safe and conducive working environment.

**Core Values and Summary of Principle Accountabilities**

**Passionate**
- Provide inspirational support and guidance to learners throughout their learning journey, helping them to progress, achieve and reach their potential.
- Provide high quality delivery of Functional Skills content to Babington specifications

**Brave**
- Adapt Babington’s learning journey blueprint (where required) to fulfil the requirements of our clients, learners and stakeholders which enrich and compliment the customer experience.
- Ensure that all content related communications from learners are answered within the defined Service Level Agreement (SLAs) and details are recorded accurately.

**Caring**
- Promote and embed Equality and Diversity, Safeguarding, British Values, Prevent and Health and Safety to all learning sessions.

**Curious**
- Compile and maintain all learner documentation on the relevant e-portfolio system to reflect learner’s characteristics, meet quality standards and funding compliance, along with demonstrating progression.
- Conduct and interpret detailed skills gap analysis with learners to accurately identify learner’s starting points, prior achievements, and experience.

**Determined**
- Deliver immersive, differentiated, and impactful interactions, embedding Maths and English, to ensure active participation by all learners in the groups, through a variety of methods, which contribute to positive learning outcomes.

**Trusted**
- Provide inspirational support and guidance to employers throughout their learners learning journey, helping the employer to support their employees.
- To communicate any issues or concerns about learners to your line manager and designated Safeguarding Officer as appropriate.

**Brief person specification**

**Essential Qualifications**
- Grade A-C GCSE in English and Maths or equivalent
- Level 2 or equivalent Functional Skills in Maths and English

**Desirable Qualifications**:

- Level 3 Award in Education & Training (or equivalent) teaching qualification or willingness to acquire
- Level 3 Certificate Assessing Vocational Achievement (CAVA) qualification or willingness to acquire one

**Skills and experience**
- Experience of developing individualised learning plans and SMART targets
- Experienced in the delivery of Mathematics and English Functional Skill delivery to learners whose English is not their first language
- Coaching to embed behavioural change experience
- Experience of providing interactive and engaging teaching, training, and development opportunities to adults
- Experience of successfully achieving deadlines and working without close supervision
- Experience of working in an accredited environment, industry, or practice
- Hold a clean driving license with access to a vehicle or have the ability to travel.

**Babington Benefits**

Babington Engage Reward Platform

Bupa Healthcare - Cash plan

25 Days annual leave plus Bank holidays

Additional annual leave purchase scheme

Employer Pension contribution

Remote Working