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Your Skills, Their Success: Supporting the Community's Future - Join us as a Learning Skills Coach!

An exciting opportunity has arisen at EKC Canterbury College as a Learning and Skills Coach. Are you passionate about supporting students to achieve their full potential? Do you believe in the power of literacy and numeracy to open doors to opportunities? Can you support students to unlock study and digital skills?

Learning and Skills Coaches support students one-to-one and in small groups, delivering sessions on English, maths, study skills and digital skills. You will work as part of a team of coaches who work across the College, which means that we can play to each team member's strengths to deliver different aspects of our provision.

Hours per week: 18.5
Salary: £15,055

Alongside our priority of excellent student experience, we also focus on our employees. Here are just some of our benefits when working for the East Kent Colleges Group:

• Generous Annual Leave - 27 days FTE per annum + 3 days after 5 years
• Learning and Development Opportunities - if you are interested in developing into teaching, you could benefit from our £7000 investment into teacher training through our in-house Teaching Academy, 3-4 annual paid group developing days, bespoke training programmes and strong internal progression – 1 in 3 roles are filled internally.
• Exclusive Discounts & Perks – including restaurant, grocery, retail and holiday discounts, as well as car leasing and tech purchasing schemes, and an on‑site nursery.
• Flexible Personal Leave – with time off for your child's first day at nursery or school, moving homes and for interviews.
• Wellbeing and Health Support – with generous sick pay, counselling services, discounted gym membership at Canterbury College.
• Culture and Recognition – through our Community Days, an annual Staff Celebration Day, and the fact that we are an eco‑friendly organisation dedicated to reaching net‑zero by 2030.
• Competitive Pension Scheme – with an 8% employer contribution.

You will be highly organised, creative, and able to plan engaging and innovative sessions with demonstrated interpersonal skills. Assessing and tracking student progress to further plan interventions will be a vital part of the role, as well as ensuring all students develop the skills they need to succeed. You will be passionate about making a difference to the future careers of our students, providing academic and pastoral support.

No need to spend time updating your CV, just click apply and complete our short application form. You can save your progress as you go, and we’ll review all applications and get back to all candidates after the closing date.

If you are interested in an informal chat about the role, or have any queries, please email us on jobs@ekcgroup.ac.uk.

Outstanding Ofsted Provider East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our ‘Strong’ skills grading by Ofsted.

Commitment to Safeguarding We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles. As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults. These checks include conviction/caution self‑declaration, Enhanced DBS check and obtaining sufficient referencing. It is a criminal offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so. If you are successful in being shortlisted to interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.

Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion East Kent Colleges Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of our communities. We are particularly keen to increase the diversity of our staff body and encourage applications from candidates where there is underrepresentation in our workforce. We are proud to hold the Positive About Disability Award and are Disability Confident Employer. This confirms our commitment to interviewing all applicants who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. With any successful candidate, we will explore any reasonable adjustments to a role due to a health needs or disability. Similarly, we have a commitment to Care Leavers (Care Covenant Pledge) and to current or previous Armed Forces personnel (Armed Forces Covenant Pledge) with a commitment to interview applicants who meet the positions essential criteria and who have declared this on their application. We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break. We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in‑house recruitment team.