School Link Coach

**Salary**

£25,622 - £29,566

**Contractual hours**

35

**Basis**

Full Time

**Package**

Excellent benefits

**Job category/type**

Support Staff

**Date posted**

19/05/2025

**Job reference**

2020OC1070

**Inspire. Support. Empower.**
Are you passionate about helping young people make a successful and confident transition into college life? Do you want to play a key role in raising aspirations and removing barriers to learning? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

Oldham College is seeking a dynamic and compassionate **School Link Coach** to join our Foundation Learning team and make a real difference in the lives of young people.

**About the Role**:
As a School Link Coach, you’ll work in partnership with local secondary schools to deliver high-quality, targeted learning sessions designed to support students as they prepare for the next step in their educational journey. You’ll inspire and equip learners with the skills, confidence, and motivation they need to thrive at college—especially those progressing into our Foundation Learning pathways.

This is a varied and rewarding role that involves:
- Planning and delivering engaging small-group and one-to-one sessions that address academic, social, and emotional development.- Supporting learners with additional needs by adapting materials and approaches to promote inclusion and engagement.- Tracking learner participation and progress, using data and feedback to tailor support.- Building strong, positive relationships with schools, parents/carers, and internal college teams to ensure a smooth, well-supported transition experience.- Contributing to the design of inclusive transition programmes and resources that promote aspiration, confidence, and progression.

**What We’re Looking For**:
We’re looking for someone who is:
- A skilled communicator and relationship-builder, comfortable working across schools, families, and college teams.- Passionate about inclusive education and experienced in supporting young people with diverse needs.- Organised, proactive, and creative in planning and delivering tailored learning experiences.- Resilient, empathetic, and committed to safeguarding and student well-being.

Experience in a teaching assistant, learning coach, youth worker, or pastoral support role is ideal—but we value the right mindset and a strong commitment to student success above all.

**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:_
- Generous Pension Scheme
- Fantastic Staff Benefits and Rewards platform
- Very generous holiday entitlement
- 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

Oldham College is a great career choice for ambitious professionals. With 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.

We understand that not everyone works to the same timetable, and offer a range of flexible working options, including flexible start and finish times, part-time, term-time only or hybrid options, where the role permits.

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.

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