Senior Progress Tutor

We are looking for a Senior Progress Tutor to join our team starting 17th August 2026!

Joining us as a Senior Progress Tutor, you will support the Learner Engagement Manager in promoting positive student behaviour, removing barriers to learning and ensuring the effective implementation of the College’s Acceptable Behaviour Policy. You will work collaboratively with curriculum teams and Progress Tutors to deliver high-quality tutorials that align with college strategies and enhance students’ personal development. A key focus of the role is to provide proactive interventions, particularly for students on lower-level study programmes, to improve attendance, engagement and overall student outcomes, while contributing to a safe, inclusive and supportive learning environment.

As a proactive and student-focused professional, you will lead on behaviour management processes, including preparations for disciplinary meetings and responses to complex incidents involving behaviours. You will play an integral role in supporting Learner Voice activities, coordinating cross-college initiatives and working closely with curriculum and student services teams to support at-risk learners. With strong collaboration and organisational skills, you will contribute to enrolment, progression and student support processes, promote inclusion and wellbeing, and ensure effective systems are in place to monitor student progress, attendance and disciplinary outcomes.

We are seeking a motivated and experienced individual with a background in education or a related field, ideally with a degree and teaching or training qualification. You will have experience managing student behaviour and supporting learners with a range of needs, alongside a strong understanding of student needs. With the ability to support staff, work collaboratively with colleagues and external partner and effectively manage competing priorities, you will demonstrate excellent communication, organisation and problem-solving skills, while remaining resilient and committed to improving student outcomes.

Benefits: 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.

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 2025 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 CV’s forwarded for this vacancy will be treated as a gift and not subject to your terms and conditions.