Success Coach
Location: Chippenham, Wiltshire
Salary: £22,353 rising to £22,821 per annum (Full time equivalent £24,331 - £24,841 per annum) (Professional Services Grade 4 &4a)
Job Type: Permanent, Full Time 37 hours per week, Term Time Only 36+4 weeks per year
Closing Date: 27th August 2025
Wiltshire College & University Centre have a great opportunity for a Success Coach to join our team.
About Us:
Wiltshire College & University Centre plays a vital role in Wiltshire’s economy, inspiring people to develop the skills they need to achieve. Our four main campuses are learning hubs in their communities, and we aspire to be an outstanding, financially robust and commercially agile provider, achieving our clear social mission on behalf of learners and employers across Wiltshire and beyond. Our campuses deliver a diversity of facilities from the country estate and farm of our Lackham campus to new hi-tech digital and state of the art facilities at our Trowbridge, Salisbury and Chippenham sites. We have invested £65 million in our estate over the past 10 years. Our turnover is £45 million per annum and growing, we employ some 650 staff, and support around 11,500 students.
Success Coach – The Role:
Are you passionate about making a difference in students' lives? As a Success Coach at Wiltshire College & University Centre, you will play a crucial role in guiding high needs learners through their educational journeys. Your job will be to enable and facilitate effective and efficient personalised study programmes that help students achieve clearly defined outcomes, including full-time study, employment, or supported living. You’ll be working under the guidance of the campus Inclusion and Support Manager to create tailored interventions and strategies that help students overcome barriers and achieve academic success.
Success Coach – Key Responsibilities:
* Personalised Study Programmes: Facilitate and enable personalised study programmes for learners with disabilities or learning difficulties, aiming for progression to full-time study, employment, or supported living.
* Developing Interventions: Create and implement provision, strategies, and action plans to help students overcome barriers to engagement and achieve their educational goals as specified in their EHCPs.
* Positive Approaches: Use positive techniques to ensure learners with challenging behaviours can safely benefit from their programmes.
* Respect and Equality: Ensure all learners are treated with respect, dignity, and equality.
* Identifying Programmes: Collaborate with Inclusion and Support Managers to identify cost-effective study programmes and activities that align with student outcomes.
* Monitoring Progress: Monitor and review learner progress, actively participating in statutory and non-statutory review processes to meet all deadlines.
* Safeguarding: Report any concerns about learner health, wellbeing, safety, or safeguarding to the designated officer.
* Promoting Health and Safety: Promote the health and safety of learners in line with college policies.
* Risk Assessments: Complete and update risk assessments promptly to ensure the safety of learners, staff, and others, ensuring they are approved via the evolve system by the Head of Inclusion and Support.
Success Coach – You:
We are looking for dedicated professionals with strong mediation skills and a proven ability to work effectively as part of a team. You should have excellent communication and problem-solving abilities, with the creativity and independence to help students overcome barriers to learning.
The ideal candidate will have:
- A Level 2 qualification in English and maths (GCSE A-C or equivalent).
- A relevant Level 3 qualification or the willingness to work towards one.
- A teaching, caring, or coaching qualification, or the commitment to obtain one.
If you are ready to bring your skills and enthusiasm to a dynamic and supportive educational environment, we would love to hear from you.
Success Coach – Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- 30 days, pro rata annual leave for Professional Service Staff, including bank holidays and additional closure days over the Christmas period
- Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Discounts with a wide variety of retailers
- Free onsite car parking
Success Coach - Application Process:
Wiltshire College & University Centre follows Safer Recruitment Guidance outlined by the Department for Education in ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’. This involves conducting enhanced DBS checks, including checks against the children’s barred list, and other employment verifications, including an online presence review for shortlisted candidates.
We embrace diversity, recognising the valuable perspectives, ideas, knowledge, and cultures individuals from different backgrounds bring. Committed to safeguarding, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we pledge to interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy and assess them based on their abilities.
To submit your application for this exciting Success Coach opportunity, please click ‘Apply’ now.
PLEASE NOTE:
Your Application Form will be shortlisted against how your skills, qualifications and experience match the Essential and Desirable points on the Person Specification for this role, located at the bottom of this page as a downloadable document.
Vacancies may close early if sufficient applications have been received; therefore, we would encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible