Progress Tutor
Southport College
Sefton
- Expired
- Salary:
- £25,046.74 to £27,652.15 per annum (pro rata)
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 30 May 2025
Job overview
Southport Education Group is seeking a dedicated Progress Tutor to support students in their personal development and academic progress.
About the Role
You will deliver weekly group sessions on key themes such as personal growth and safeguarding, as part of the College’s tutorial programme. Alongside this, you will provide one-to-one support to a caseload of students, monitoring attendance and progress, and setting meaningful targets to promote achievement.
Working closely with Careers Co-ordinators, you’ll provide advice and guidance to help students progress to positive destinations within or beyond the college. You’ll also collaborate with Student Engagement Officers to support student welfare and implement strategies to boost retention and achievement including liaison with parents, carers, and external agencies.
About you
The successful candidate will possess experience gained within an educational setting, particularly supporting 16–18-year-olds. A background in delivering effective student support is essential.
Please note: We have a variety of part-time options available, so please include your preferred working hours and availability in your application.
A full-time Progress Tutor position is also available. For further details, please visit: https://www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy/progress-tutor-sefton-2219774
Working For Us
We value our staff and the contribution that everyone makes to the success of our College. For this reason, we offer fantastic support for all staff and staff development is encouraged throughout all departments. We offer a family friendly environment and support our staff so that they get the best out of their job and their time here.
Many of the team have been here for many years, growing with us and progressing on to new challenges and roles. With mentoring available for all new starters, a free counselling service for all staff, we know that you would relish being part of our team.
Benefits We Offer
- Generous Annual Leave Entitlement: 49 days for lecturing staff, 41 days for management staff and 39 days for support staff, including up to 9 efficiency days to coincide with Christmas and Easter closures. Staff are also not required to work bank holidays.
- Staff can take one additional day off per year to celebrate their birthday
- Free eye tests and flu vouchers, and access to supported health care plan with discounted cost
- Annual Christmas Celebration: previous years included Christmas party, hampers or vouchers
- Annual Health & Well-being Day: including a range of activities from Crotchet to Golf, finishing with a staff BBQ
- Outstanding Staff Contribution Awards and Long-Service Awards: All staff are also eligible for our weekly term time Feel-Good Friday Draw.
- Auto Enrolment into Teachers Pension Scheme: for Lecturers (28.68% employer contribution) and Local Government Pension scheme for support staff (20.7% employer contribution)
For further details and to download an application form, please click the apply button.
Completed applications should be returned via email to personnel@southport.ac.uk.
The deadline for applications is 10:00am on Monday 2nd June 2025.
Southport College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and all employees are expected to share this commitment.
All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records check, with Barred List check if appropriate, through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
About Southport College
- Southport College
- Mornington Road, Southport
- Merseyside
- PR9 0TT
- United Kingdom
Southport College is a well established independent Further Education college providing a diverse programme of education and training to a variety of learners across the North West.
Working closely with schools across Sefton and West Lancashire, Southport College offers a School Links programme for over 250 14-16 year olds who combine studying vocational courses at Southport College alongside their GCSEs in school. Southport College is the area’s largest provider of vocational courses, with nearly 2000 full-time 16-19 year-olds studying a range of qualifications including BTECs, NVQs, CACHE awards, City & Guilds qualifications and the exciting new Advanced Diplomas, in a wide range of subjects from Hair & Beauty Studies or Forensic Science to Childcare or Games Design & Animation.
Southport College provides a range of part-time and full-time courses to over 3000 adult learners, many of them supported by their employers on courses delivered in the workplace through our Employer Services team. Many students choose to study university education at Southport College, following degree courses validated by Liverpool John Moores University, the University of Central Lancashire and Edge Hill University.
This is a particularly exciting time to be studying at Southport College. We have recently invested over £10 million of our own resources into improving the learning environment for all of our students with many exciting plans for the future, making sure that Southport College really is the first choice for training and education in the area.
Southport College’s mission is to work in partnership to provide high quality education and training for individuals and employers. Through inspirational teaching, outstanding support and excellent facilities, we aim to help every one of our learners reach their full potential and progress to success.
The benefits of working for us
We value our staff and the contribution that everyone makes to the success of our College. For this reason we offer fantastic support for all staff and staff development is encouraged throughout all departments. We offer a family friendly environment and support our staff so that they get the best out of their job and their time here. Many of the team have been here for many years, growing with us and progressing on to new challenges and roles. With mentoring available for all new starters, a free counselling service for all staff we know that you would relish being part of our team.
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