Personal Development & Progress Lead

Personal Development & Progress Lead

Final date to receive applications: 24 August 2026

Department:
Student Support

Employment Type:

Full Time

Location:

Harborne, Birmingham, UK

Compensation: £28,138 / year

Salary : £28,137.61 Per Annum (Pending September Pay Award to be applied)

Hours: 37 Hours Per Week, 9:00 – 16:00, Mon
-Fri

Weeks: 43 Weeks Per Year

Job Purpose: To provide strategic and operational leadership of the Progress Coach team, ensuring consistently high standards in learner progress monitoring, personal development, tutorial delivery, and preparation for adulthood outcomes across the College.

The postholder will line manage Progress Coaches, lead quality assurance and compliance processes, and deliver training and professional development to both Progress Coaches and Personal Tutors. The role includes a reduced caseload of up to 10 learners to model excellent practice and maintain direct learner impact.

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• Line manage and supervise Progress Coaches.
• Conduct regular 1:1, performance reviews and development planning.
• Provide coaching, mentoring and professional challenge to ensure high standards of practice.
• Support workload management and staff wellbeing.
• Contribute to recruitment, lead induction and appraisal processes.
• Lead Progress Coach team meetings

• Work collaboratively with curriculum managers and other managers who line manage Personal Tutors to ensure consistency and clarity in tutorial expectations and personal development delivery.
• Provide professional guidance and quality oversight relating to tutorial practice, target setting and preparation for adulthood outcomes.
• Design and deliver training for Personal Tutors in partnership with relevant line managers and Learner Journey.
• Liaise closely with the LSA Training & Development Manager to ensure alignment between Progress Coach practice, tutorial delivery and Learning Support Assistant development programmes.
• Contribute to whole-college CPD planning where personal development and learner progress are priorities.
• Support consistent implementation of policies relating to tutorial delivery, attendance monitoring and EHCP alignment.

• Lead and implement quality assurance processes for Progress Coach practice.

• Caseload management
• Target setting quality
• EHCP review documentation
• Attendance monitoring in collaboration ASO where required
• Recording on DatabridgeMIS
• Monitor consistency and compliance across the team.
• Analyse data trends and implement improvement actions.

• Contribute to inspection readiness and quality improvement planning with support from the Assistant Principal – Personal Development.

• Oversee the quality and impact of tutorial provision.
• Support consistency in the delivery of British Values, Prevent, consent and wider personal development themes.
• Design and deliver training for:
• Progress Coaches
• Personal Tutors
• Model high-quality tutorial delivery where appropriate.

• Provide one-to-one and small group support (where appropriate).
• Follow a structured schedule of learner tutorials.
• Prepare and contribute to EHCP reviews.
• Monitor attendance, behaviour, independence and destination planning.
• Coordinate collaborative working with curriculum staff, parents/carers and external agencies.
• Input, track and report on progress using the College MIS.
• Act as a key point of contact for allocated learners.
• Maintain accurate and timely records.

• Promote and safeguard the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults.
• Ensure compliance with College policies and procedures.
• Maintain accurate and timely documentation.
• Represent the College positively in external engagements.
• Engage in ongoing professional development.

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