Apollo Coach Job description
- West Suffolk College, Bury St Edmunds
- 28 hours per week, 52 weeks per year
- Fixed Term until 20 th June 2025
- Salary: £23,114 per annum - £23,893 per annum (Actual salary: £17,540 per annum - £18,131 per annum)
We are seeking an individual to join our evolving Health and Social Sciences Team, supporting with the Apollo Project. In this role you will be identifying and resourcing individuals who are interested in gaining employment to support their studies. You will be a passionate individual who is committed to providing targeted coaching and training to best prepare such individuals to go on to secure education training and employment within the Health and Care sector.
This is an exciting opportunity to gain industry experience within the HE sector on a brand-new project. Alongside giving the successful candidate the opportunity to have a genuinely positive impact on the lives of our students.
The successful candidate will be an approachable, organised individual with great communication skills, together with experience of working in a role that supports learning, with the ability to think creatively and adapt your approach accordingly. Previous working experience in Health and Care Sciences would be highly advantageous.
We also offer a wide range of staff benefits including: - Membership into Local Government Pension Scheme
- Family friendly policies and flexible working
- Access to our employee assistance programme
- Employee wellbeing initiatives
- Free parking
- Canteen
- Company Events
- Memberships and discounts - employees can sign up to various membership cards and discount schemes.
- Learning and development opportunities - including staff development days
West Suffolk College is one of the country's leading further education and apprenticeship providers. Our apprenticeship results have consistently remained above the national average. We offer many degrees, HNCs and HNDs at our focused and inclusive University Studies Centre . We have around 13,000 students including nearly 2,000 apprentices studying with us.
As a College, our Character Strengths and Mission Statement underpin our expectations of all our students and employees. Please familiarise yourself with these and incorporate them into your personal statement; this will be of benefit if you are invited to attend for an interview.
This is an opportunity to join a hugely supportive organisation where we value, support and facilitate your professional development, as well as offering many other benefits including an attractive pension scheme, staff wellbeing initiatives and employee assistance.
This College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
For further information please contact our recruitment team at:
[email protected] Completed application forms should be made via out recruitment portal - if you have not heard from a member of the HR Team within 14 working days, please presume your application has not been successful on this occasion.
Closing Date: 8:00am on Thursday, 2nd May
Interviews: To be held shortly thereafter, W/C 6th May
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, gender, gender reassignment, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age in accordance with the requirements of the Equality Act 2010.
The College is committed to safeguarding children and safer recruitment practices and will undertake all the required pre-employment checks on the successful candidate including an enhanced DBS Disclosure.
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