Progress Facilitator-- Apprenticeships

**We are looking for: Progress Facilitator
- Apprenticeships**

**Salary : £30,692- £32,730 Per annum**

**Joining our Journey**:

- 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

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
- 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.

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.

**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.**

Further details including a Person Specification are included within the attached Job Description.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £30,692.00-£32,730.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Childcare
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Gym membership
- Life insurance
- On-site gym
- On-site parking
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Work Location: In person