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Progress Coach (Sport and Protective Services)

Gower College Swansea

Location: Swansea
Salary: £26,907 to £29,242 pa
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed On: 11th July 2024
Closes: 18th July 2024
Job Ref: JUL20240026

About us:

Gower College Swansea is one of the largest colleges in Wales with a strong reputation for high quality teaching and learning. We have six campuses across the city with over 4,500 full time learners and 10,000 part time learners.  We currently have a turnover of over £50 million making us a major employer in the region with approximately 1,000 staff.

At Gower College Swansea we are passionate about investing in our staff and looking after their wellbeing to ensure they feel supported in work and also at home.

The role:

  • Full Time, 37 Hours per week
  • Permanent
  • £26,907 - £29,242 per annum 
  • Tycoch Campus- Swansea

Key responsibilities:

  • Supporting learners to achieve their goals, ensuring they are fully supported to succeed in their studies, helping them develop wider academic and other essential skills that will enable suitable progression.
  • Effectively address learner issues and concerns, including those related to attendance, punctuality, motivation and attitude to learning, to promote a positive and caring culture.
  • Deliver all aspects of our A level tutorial programme to full tutor groups including our newly established GOWER mindset programme as well as mandatory aspects of our tutorial programme (e.g. safeguarding).  As well as delivery of group tutorial sessions, you will conduct regular one-to-one sessions with a cohort of learners, focussing on their targets, goals and the support they need to achieve these.
  • Proactively work with learners to improve attendance, retention and attainment and address general behaviour issues, focussing on those ‘at risk’, ensuring timely referral/communication with lecturers, Learning Area Managers, and other support teams.

 About you:

  • Hold or be working towards a degree or level 4 qualification and have 5 GCSEs grade C or equivalent.  You must also be prepared to work towards a peer mentoring qualification.   
  • Excellent organisation and problem solving skills, the ability to work flexibly under pressure, as well as excellent attention to detail.
  • Experience of teaching and/or working with young people will be required, as well as experience of arranging activities and presenting.
  • IT literacy and interpersonal skills to communicate effectively both internally and externally with stakeholders (in person and virtually).
  • Flexibility is essential to work across different College sites (and on weekends and evenings when necessary)

Benefits for you:

  • 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, and the college is closed for two weeks over the Christmas period
  • A Local Government Pension Scheme with an average employer contribution of 21% (2023)
  • 2 staff well-being days
  • Discounted study opportunities on College programmes
  • View more benefits here: https://www.gcs.ac.uk/recruitment/staff-benefits-wellbeing

Need help with your application? Please click here to read our guidance.

We welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our organisation.

If you wish to continue your application journey using Welsh Language, please visit our Cymraeg site. We encourage Welsh Language applications as we recognise the importance of delivering services in Welsh, and the need to grow our bilingual workforce.

Gower College Swansea is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check and require registration with the Education Workforce Council for Wales.

Please note that we are expecting a high volume of applicants for this vacancy. If we do, we may close the post before the specified date, therefore an early application is recommended.

Appointments will normally be made to the bottom of the salary scale with annual increments on 1st August each year (subject to a start date before 1st February).

Benefits:
https://www.gcs.ac.uk/recruitment/staff-benefits-wellbeing

Hyfforddwr Cynnydd (Chwaraeon a Gwasanaethau Amddiffynnol)  

Cyfeirnod: JUL20240028

Amdanom ni:

Coleg Gwyr Abertawe yw un o golegau mwyaf Cymru ac mae gennym enw da iawn am addysgu a dysgu o ansawdd uchel. Mae gennym chwe champws ledled y ddinas a dros 4,500 o ddysgwyr amser llawn a 10,000 o ddysgwyr rhan-amser. Ar hyn o bryd, mae gennym drosiant o £50 miliwn, sy’n golygu ein bod yn gyflogwr sylweddol yn y rhanbarth. Rydym yn cyflogi tua 1,000 o staff.

Yng Ngholeg Gwyr Abertawe, rydym yn angerddol am fuddsoddi yn ein staff a gofalu am eu lles, er mwyn sicrhau eu bod yn derbyn cefnogaeth yn y gwaith a gartref.

Y rôl:

  • Llawn Amser, 37 awr yr wythnos
  • Parhaol
  • £26,907 - £29,242 y flwyddyn
  • Campws Tycoch - Abertawe

Cyfrifoldebau allweddol:

  • Helpu dysgwyr i gyflawni eu nodau, gan sicrhau eu bod yn cael eu cefnogi’n llawn i lwyddo yn eu hastudiaethau, gan roi cymorth iddynt i ddatblygu sgiliau academaidd a sgiliau ehangach eraill a fydd yn hwyluso dilyniant addas.
  • Mynd i’r afael yn effeithiol â materion a phryderon dysgwyr, gan gynnwys y rhai sy’n ymwneud â phresenoldeb, prydlondeb, cymhelliant ac agwedd at ddysgu, er mwyn hybu diwylliant cadarnhaol a gofalgar.
  • Cyflwyno pob agwedd ar ein rhaglen diwtorial i grwpiau tiwtorial, gan gynnwys ein rhaglen newydd meddylfryd GWYR, ynghyd ag agweddau gorfodol ar ein rhaglen diwtorial (e.e. diogelu). Bydd gofyn i chi hefyd gyflwyno sesiynau tiwtorial grwp, cynnal sesiynau un-i-un ar gyfer llawer o ddysgwyr, gan ffocysu ar eu targedau, eu nodau a’r cymorth sydd ei angen arnynt i gyflawni’r rhain.
  • Gweithio’n rhagweithiol gyda dysgwyr i wella presenoldeb, cadw a chyrhaeddiad a mynd i’r afael ag unrhyw faterion cyffredinol sy’n ymwneud ag ymddygiad. Bydd gofyn i chi ganolbwyntio ar unigolion sydd ‘mewn perygl’, gan sicrhau bod darlithwyr, Rheolwyr Maes Dysgu ac unrhyw dimau cymorth eraill yn gwybod amdanynt.

 Amdanoch chi:

  • Byddwch yn meddu ar radd neu gymhwyster lefel 4 neu barodrwydd i weithio at ennill un o’r rhain. Bydd gennych hefyd 5 TGAU gradd C neu gyfwerth, ynghyd â pharodrwydd i ymgymryd â chymhwyster mentora cymheiriaid.  
  • Sgiliau trefnu a datrys problemau gwych, y gallu i weithio’n hyblyg o dan bwysau yn ogystal â llygad dda iawn am fanylder.
  • Mae profiad o addysgu a/neu weithio gyda phobl ifanc yn ofynnol, ynghyd â phrofiad o drefnu gweithgareddau a chyflwyno.
  • Sgiliau llythrennedd TG a sgiliau rhyngbersonol i gyfathrebu’n effeithiol yn fewnol ac yn allanol gyda rhanddeiliaid (wyneb yn wyneb ac ar-lein).
  • Mae hyblygrwydd yn hanfodol er mwyn gweithio ledled safleoedd y Coleg (ac ar benwythnosau a gyda’r nos pan fo angen).

Buddion:

  • 28 diwrnod o wyliau blynyddol gan gynnwys gwyliau banc. Hefyd, mae’r Coleg ar gau am bythefnos dros gyfnod y Nadolig
  • Cynllun Pensiwn Llywodraeth Leol a chyfraniad cyflogwr o 21% ar gyfartaledd (2023)
  • Cynllun Pensiwn Athrawon a chyfraniad cyflogwr o 23% ar gyfartaledd (2023)
  • 2 ddiwrnod lles i staff
  • Disgowntiau ar gostau astudio os ydych yn astudio un o gyrsiau’r Coleg

Angen cymorth gyda’ch cais? Cliciwch ein tudalen canllaw. 

Rydym yn croesawu ceisiadau gan unigolion, waeth beth fo’u hoedran, rhyw, ethnigrwydd, anabledd, cyfeiriadedd rhywiol, hunaniaeth rhywedd, cefndir economaidd-gymdeithasol, crefydd a/neu gred. Rydym yn croesawu’n arbennig ceisiadau gan grwpiau nad ydynt wedi’u cynrychioli’n ddigonol o fewn ein sefydliad.

Os hoffech ymgymryd â’r broses ymgeisio trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg, ewch i’n gwefan Cymraeg. Rydym yn annog unigolion i gyflwyno ceisiadau Cymraeg gan ein bod yn cydnabod pwysigrwydd darparu gwasanaethau Cymraeg a’r angen i ehangu gweithlu dwyieithog.

Mae Coleg Gwyr Abertawe yn ymrwymedig i ddiogelu a hyrwyddo lles pobl ifanc ac rydym yn disgwyl i bob aelod o staff gydymffurfio â’r ymrwymiad hwn. Bydd gofyn i’r ymgeisydd llwyddiannus ymgymryd â gwiriad DBS manylach a chofrestru gyda Chyngor Gweithlu Addysg Cymru.

Rydym yn disgwyl nifer fawr o ymgeiswyr ar gyfer y swydd wag hon. Os derbynnir llawer o geisiadau, efallai y byddwn yn atal unigolion rhag cyflwyno cais cyn y dyddiad penodedig. Awgrymir felly ichi gyflwyno’ch cais yn gynnar. 

Fel rheol, bydd penodiadau yn cael eu gwneud ar waelod y raddfa gyflog gyda chynyddrannau blynyddol ar 1 Awst bob blwyddyn (yn amodol ar ddyddiad cychwyn cyn Chwefror 1).

Buddion:
https://www.gcs.ac.uk/cy/recriwtio/buddion-a-lles

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