Job start date: 10 March 2025

Hours per week: 37 term time only

Solihull Sixth Form College
Widney Manor Road
Solihull
B91 3WR
Telephone number: 0121 704 2581

Contact email: recruitment@summitlearningtrust.org.uk

Contract type: Permanent

Join our friendly, thriving and supportive staff here at Solihull Sixth Form College. We aspire to be outstanding professionally and personally, taking time to invest in everything we do, to develop transformative life chances for all of our learners and to stretch their potential to the full.

Solihull Sixth Form College is a large, culturally diverse specialist in A Levels and Level 3 BTEC qualifications, and part of the Summit Learning Trust.

Our academic coaching team provides our Level 3 16 to 19 year-old cohort with individualised support and challenge which stretches their potential to the full. You will be required to manage a caseload of learners delivering weekly group tutorial sessions and individual 1:1s, agreeing motivational targets, monitoring performance, and encouraging learners’ preparation for employment or further/higher education. You will be responsible for the completion and submission of UCAS applications where applicable and providing references for both higher education and employment.

You will have previous experience of working with young people ideally within a post 16 setting with experience of delivering sessions to large groups. You will also have the ability to motivate, stretch and challenge young people; understand level 3 qualifications and progression routes; be a good team player and have good organisational and communication skills.

Why work for us?

We offer a range of wellbeing and work-life balance benefits to recognise and reward the essential contributions our colleagues make to our success and growth.

These include access to:

• employee assistance programme

• high quality training and support in and across academies enabling career progression

• wellbeing advocates

• lifestyle benefits and discount schemes, including gym discounts and cycle to work scheme

• health protection scheme alongside flu jab and eyecare vouchers

• generous employer pension schemes

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.

How to apply:

Please apply online

You can download the job description and person specification

Please note we do not accept CVs.

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.

All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates. This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.

Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

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