Job Description

Salary

25,622 - 29,566

Contractual hours

35

Basis

Full Time

Package

Excellent benefits

Job category/type

Support Staff

Date posted

19/05/2025

Job reference

2020OC1070

Inspire. Support. Empower.

Are you passionate about helping young people make a successful and confident transition into college life? Do you want to play a key role in raising aspirations and removing barriers to learning? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

Oldham College is seeking a dynamic and compassionate

School Link Coach

to join our Foundation Learning team and make a real difference in the lives of young people.

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About the Role

As a School Link Coach, you'll work in partnership with local secondary schools to deliver high-quality, targeted learning sessions designed to support students as they prepare for the next step in their educational journey. You'll inspire and equip learners with the skills, confidence, and motivation they need to thrive at college--especially those progressing into our Foundation Learning pathways.

This is a varied and rewarding role that involves:

Planning and delivering engaging small-group and one-to-one sessions that address academic, social, and emotional development. Supporting learners with additional needs by adapting materials and approaches to promote inclusion and engagement. Tracking learner participation and progress, using data and feedback to tailor support. Building strong, positive relationships with schools, parents/carers, and internal college teams to ensure a smooth, well-supported transition experience. Contributing to the design of inclusive transition programmes and resources that promote aspiration, confidence, and progression.
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What We're Looking For

We're looking for someone who is:

A skilled communicator and relationship-builder, comfortable working across schools, families, and college teams. Passionate about inclusive education and experienced in supporting young people with diverse needs. Organised, proactive, and creative in planning and delivering tailored learning experiences. Resilient, empathetic, and committed to safeguarding and student well-being.
Experience in a teaching assistant, learning coach, youth worker, or pastoral support role is ideal--but we value the right mindset and a strong commitment to student success above all.

Joining our Journey:

When you join our college, not only will you benefit from an annual reviewed salary but have access to numerous benefits and facilities:
Generous Pension Scheme Fantastic Staff Benefits and Rewards platform Very generous holiday entitlement Employee Assistance Scheme Enhanced Maternity/Paternity provision Staff Development days/week (Jan, July, Aug) Free confidential counselling service Staff recognition awards Car Scheme Subsidised car parking On-site Day Nursery On-site hair and beauty salon




Oldham College is a great career choice for ambitious professionals. With one of the best apprenticeship programmes in the region, excellent 16-18 results and truly outstanding GCSE English results, we are already a high performer.

But we want to deliver much more than this. Our ambition is to be "The Best Place to Learn and Work" and we have a clear Strategic Plan which sets out what this means and what we will do to deliver it. We will keep on improving and innovating, and we are investing in new provision, new facilities, and new technology; including our state-of-the-art clinical simulation suite.

We expect a lot from you, so we want ambitious, open minded candidates, who are ready to give their best. But we give a lot in return, from training to pensions, our own benefits package, and one of the best and most helpful group of colleagues you could ever wish to meet.

The role will require you to embed and work to the college's values; working with Integrity, having Ambition to help our learners succeed and being Inclusive to learners and colleagues alike.

At Oldham College, our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We encourage everyone to join us, as we create a workforce that is as diverse as our wonderful student community. We do monitor responses to our diversity questions in our application, to ensure that we can continue to build a workforce that is representative of the community that we serve.

We understand that not everyone works to the same timetable, and offer a range of flexible working options, including flexible start and finish times, part-time, term-time only or hybrid options, where the role permits.

We will do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, contact our HR team who will be happy to advise.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law.

Depending on the vacancy and applicable laws, a pre-employment screening could include, employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the role.

Oldham College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.

Any appointments will be subject to enhanced DBS checks and a check of the DfE Barred List.

Further details including a Person Specification are included within the attached .

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation Act 1974. It is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children and vulnerable adults.