About this role
Salary : £28,137.61 Per Annum (Pending September Pay Award to be applied) Hours: 37 Hours Per Week, 9:00 – 16:00, Mon -Fri Weeks: 43 Weeks Per Year Job Purpose: To provide strategic and operational leadership of the Progress Coach team, ensuring consistently high standards in learner progress monitoring, personal development, tutorial delivery, and preparation for adulthood outcomes across the College. The postholder will line manage Progress Coaches, lead quality assurance and compliance processes, and deliver training and professional development to both Progress Coaches and Personal Tutors. The role includes a reduced caseload of up to 10 learners to model excellent practice and maintain direct learner impact. To learn more about the area of the Charity you would be working in please watch this short video - Queen Alexandra College 1. Leadership & Line Management Line manage and supervise Progress Coaches. Conduct regular 1:1, performance reviews and development planning. Provide coaching, mentoring and professional challenge to ensure high standards of practice. Support workload management and staff wellbeing. Contribute to recruitment, lead induction and appraisal processes. Lead Progress Coach team meetings 2. Cross-College Collaboration & Professional Development Work collaboratively with curriculum managers and other managers who line manage Personal Tutors to ensure consistency and clarity in tutorial expectations and personal development delivery. Provide professional guidance and quality oversight relating to tutorial practice, target setting and preparation for adulthood outcomes. Design and deliver training for Personal Tutors in partnership with relevant line managers and Learner Journey. Liaise closely with the LSA Training & Development Manager to ensure alignment between Progress Coach practice, tutorial delivery and Learning Support Assistant development programmes. Contribute to whole-college CPD planning where personal development and learner progress are priorities. Support consistent implementation of policies relating to tutorial delivery, attendance monitoring and EHCP alignment. 3. Quality Assurance & Continuous Improvement Lead and implement quality assurance processes for Progress Coach practice. Audit: Caseload management Target setting quality EHCP review documentation Attendance monitoring in collaboration ASO where required Recording on DatabridgeMIS Monitor consistency and compliance across the team. Analyse data trends and implement improvement actions. Contribute to inspection readiness and quality improvement planning with support from the Assistant Principal – Personal Development. 4. Personal Development & Tutorial Oversight Oversee the quality and impact of tutorial provision. Support consistency in the delivery of British Values, Prevent, consent and wider personal development themes. Design and deliver training for: Progress Coaches Personal Tutors Model high-quality tutorial delivery where appropriate. 5. Learner Caseload (Approximately 10 Learners) Provide one-to-one and small group support (where appropriate). Follow a structured schedule of learner tutorials. Prepare and contribute to EHCP reviews. Monitor attendance, behaviour, independence and destination planning. Coordinate collaborative working with curriculum staff, parents/carers and external agencies. Input, track and report on progress using the College MIS. Act as a key point of contact for allocated learners. Maintain accurate and timely records. 6. Safeguarding & Professional Responsibilities Promote and safeguard the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults. Ensure compliance with College policies and procedures. Maintain accurate and timely documentation. Represent the College positively in external engagements. Engage in ongoing professional development. Please take time to review the job description attached. Please upload a CV/Resume* with details of your full employment history (since leaving school, including education, employment and voluntary work) including reasons for any gaps in employment. This should also include a statement of the personal qualities and experience you believe are relevant to your suitability for the post and how this meets the job description and person specification requirements. Your CV/Resume* will be re-produced in a standard format by the system (without personal identifiers) to assist us in our anonymised shortlisting process. Safeguarding Commitments As part of our commitment to safeguarding, and in line with updated guidance published in September 2026, we will carry out an online search of all shortlisted candidates. This search may enable us to identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and publicly available for review online, which we may wish to explore with you in further detail during the interview process. As part of your application we have asked you to provide the account names, usernames and/or handles for any social media platform that you use, as well as the names of any websites that you own, post on, or contribute to. A Google search will also be conducted. These checks will only be conducted if you are shortlisted for interview. Please see our safer recruitment and selection policy for further information. Under Section 7 of SVGA 2006 it is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. The College's Safeguarding Policies are available here. We are deeply committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All required pre-employment checks will be undertaken, and offers of employment are subject to satisfactory outcomes. These include an enhanced DBS check with Children & Adult’s Barred List information, identity checks, o nline checks, and verification of professional qualifications and references. Further details are available in Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE ).