Sixth Form Achievement Coach

Main Duties and Responsibilities

1. To co-ordinate all stages of learner journey alongside Sixth Form team to include admissions, support interviews, co-ordinate both A level and GCSE results day and enrolment events, preparing individual learner timetables and subject groups, on programme monitoring, support progression planning through to individual exit reviews.
2. To develop productive and professional relationships between learners, teachers and learner support services, encouraging dialogue and feedback to ensure appropriate support mechanisms are in place.
3. To conduct regular reviews, and other associated activities, with learners in line with the deadlines set out in the college’s Quality Calendar.
4. Contribute to the creation and delivery of an up-to-date, inspiring and ambitious Tutorial programme and development of learners’ academic and employability skills.
5. To closely monitor attendance in line with college procedures and promptly identify learners at risk, provide early warnings of potential losses, and assist with support and recovery of early leavers.
6. Support follow up actions following weekly At-Risk team meeting, provide all reasonable support to learners with challenges affecting their potential to continue and achieve and referring to appropriate support services and agencies as required.
7. To support teachers and managers in monitoring and recording of behaviour. To support learners in maintaining focus and motivation throughout their programme and assist positive behaviour management.
8. To co-ordinate Additional Learning Support for learners as required within identified cohort.
9. Maintain and manage accurate and auditable data relating to learners, ensuring it meets all funding and awarding body requirements.
10. To attend where required events such as Applicant Welcome Evenings, Parents’ Evenings, Meet the Teacher events, Open Evenings and marketing events including School liaison visits, external events and taster visits.
11. To support and ensure all students UCAS applications are timely, references are submitted ensuring the student is represented at their best through support and skill development delivered sessions.
12. To support the tracking, including any impact assessment, of learners’ progression through the tutorial entitlement, liaising where necessary to the Sixth Form Leadership Team or an appropriate subject teacher.
13. To ensure Learner Voice surveys are completed by all your learners.
14. To maintain accurate and up to date records of support activities/ tutorials, including assessing impact.
15. To support learners in maintaining and developing their Individual Learning Plan (ILP) and Skills Portfolio, ensuring appropriate challenging skill based targets are set and support the learners to make good or better progress.
16. Ensure learners own their targets, they are monitored robustly and updated to identify new targets and progress made.
17. Ensure student’s academic skills are developed and where these fall short of expectations pro-active action is taken to address this in the appropriate format.
18. To ensure all learners plan and participate in external work experience, volunteering and other work related opportunities.
19. To plan for appropriate timely careers advice and guidance sessions which support learners to research progression opportunities and liaise with other learning brokers to support effective progression and/or transfer.
20. To provide guidance and support with HE choices and applications.

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