Term-Time Only (38 weeks per year), 36 hrs per week, working hours TBC linked to timetable for tutorials
We are looking for a Progress Tutor to join us at Tameside College, starting 17th August 2026! This post is a 0.88 FTE (36 hours over 38 weeks)
Are you a Progress Tutor who is skilled and a highly motivated individual who is looking to join our established team of Progress Tutors? You will have the passion to inspire every student to reach their full potential regardless of their starting point. If so, we’d love to hear from you.
As a support colleague you’ll go into the Local Government Pensions scheme and enjoy some really great benefit’s as well, Free on-site Gym at Beaufort Road, Beauty treatments and haircuts, Health care cash plan via Simply Health, saving clubs via Manchester Credit Union, Cycle to work. Costa Coffee on site, Onsite bakery products at Tameside One, The Restaurant at Tameside One, Retail discounts, Refectories on all sites.
Here’s the standard bit: You will deliver a proportionate case load of group tutorials across a variety of levels and curriculum areas, focussing upon personal development, behaviour, welfare and employability. Working alongside curriculum teams your role will be to break down barriers and ensure that all students are able to achieve successful outcomes both academically and socially.
You will have a proven track record in delivering personal development sessions or similar. You will be experienced in monitoring the attendance, achievement and progression of students within an educational setting. You will have a sound understanding of the range of issues facing young people with barriers to their learning (including social, emotional and behavioural) and have an ability to motivate students with a diverse range of needs. You will have excellent interpersonal skills in working with students, ability to remain calm and a problem- solving approach to managing challenging situations.
What you’ll need: Enthusiasm, resilience and motivation, with a relevant level 4 qualification or equivalent coupled with a level 2 qualification in Literacy and Numeracy knowledge. Experience of supporting learners across a range of curriculum areas in an educational environment and the issues facing young people with barriers to their learning (including social, emotional, behavioural). Your also need to be experienced in target setting and monitoring with learners. Please see the person spec and JD for further information.
About us: Tameside College has an excellent reputation and this is a real opportunity for you to make a difference in people’s lives. We’re based in Ashton-Under-Lyne, Greater Manchester in a diverse and vibrant further education college that offers a wide range of course including A level and advanced level vocational study programmes, Apprenticeships and adult courses up to degree Level. We aim to give all our students an exceptional experience.
We believe in excellence and we back that up with high expectations, a superb working environment (as part of the Vision Tameside £100 million+ accommodation strategy) and outstanding teaching. We also believe that attending college is about more than achieving a qualification, important though that is. This is why we aim to give learners every opportunity to develop their full potential in a supportive and friendly environment.
Tameside College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all learners and expects all staff to share this commitment. Employment at Tameside College is subject to an Enhanced DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) Check via the Disclosure and Barring Service and any post in regulated activity will also be subject to an additional barred list check. Tameside College will meet the costs associated with this.
Please note Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 guidance requires us to carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This is to enables us to identify any incidents or issues which we might want to explore at interview with you. Once shortlisting has taken place, this search will be carried out for all candidates who are invited to attend an interview.
Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we are unfortunately not able to respond to each applicant. If you have not been called for interview within 3 weeks of the closing date, you should assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.
Subject to volume of applications, we may decide to close the vacancy early. Come join us on our journey to outstanding!
Recruitment Agencies: We are not utilising the service of recruitment agencies for this vacancy and will accept direct applications only. Any CVs forwarded for this vacancy will be treated as a gift and not subject to your terms and conditions.
