Student Support Coordinator (High/Most Able)
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 21 Ionawr 2026 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 02 Chwefror 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Durham, County Durham, DH1 1SG |
| Cwmni: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 64c2b1a8-0d01-46d1-ad2c-8ca57878c23a |
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What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for someone who:
• Inspires High Aspirations: Has the ability to inspire and challenge both students and colleagues to strive for academic excellence.
• Understands Ambitious Pathways: Is deeply committed to academic stretching and understands the unique challenges and opportunities facing high-ability learners.
• Has Exceptional Organisation: Possesses precision in managing complex processes.
• Builds Strong Partnerships: Develops respectful and professional relationships with students, families, staff, and external academic or professional agencies.
• Communicates with Impact: Communicates with clarity, empathy and confidence in a fast-paced and intellectually dynamic environment.
• Promotes Resilience: Shares our belief that every young person - regardless of their starting point—deserves the opportunity to be challenged and to succeed.
What the school offers its staff
We are looking to recruit an exceptional Student Support Coordinator (High/Most Able) to join our outstanding sixth form team, part of the Providence Learning Partnership, where unwavering support, care, and guidance for our post-16 learners is at the heart of everything we do. This is an exciting opportunity to make a profound difference in the lives of our highest-achieving young people, ensuring they are stretched, challenged, and supported to reach the most competitive global destinations during two of the most critical years of their education.
What Makes This Role Exciting?
• Champion Academic Excellence: Play a vital role in supporting our high-achieving learners, helping them navigate academic pressure and achieve world-class potential.
• Dedicated Cohort Advocacy: Oversee and support a dedicated cohort of High/Most Able students, ensuring they are known, valued and intellectually championed throughout their sixth form journey.
• Elite Progression & Enrichment: Coordinate and facilitate high-level enrichment and aspirational HE and career choices.Collaborative Pastoral Care: Work collaboratively with other colleagues to deliver tailored interventions that balance high academic expectations with robust wellbeing.
• Outstanding setting: Be part of a thriving, oversubscribed sixth form with a national reputation for excellence and inclusion.
Why choose us?
• Be a part of an Investors in People: Platinum [Employer of the Year 2025] organisation.
• We are a flourishing high-performing sixth form where students achieve and exceed their potential.
• Be part of a team that’s ambitious, supportive, and driven by purpose.
• Benefit from personalised CPD, leadership coaching, and genuine career progression.
Join Durham Sixth Form Centre as a Student Support Coordinator (High/MA). Support and inspire the next generation of post-16 students in a nationally recognised, high-performing sixth form. We are located in the heart of Durham, just 20 minutes from Sunderland and 30 minutes from Newcastle city centre.
Further details about the role
Thank you for your interest in the role of Student Support Coordinator (High/Most Able) at Durham Sixth Form Centre. We are delighted that you are considering joining our dedicated and dynamic team, who play a vital role in our centre’s success and student experience.
The Student Support Coordinator (High/Most Able) is a pivotal new appointment at Durham Sixth Form Centre. As lead professionals and role models, Student Support Coordinators embody our core values, fostering an ethos of academic rigour, exemplary behaviour and mutual respect. This role is directly accountable for the coordination of programmes and support for students with High Prior Attainment and those identified as being ‘Most Able’ (based on their average GCSE scores), ensuring that our highest-achieving learners are consistently challenged and inspired to achieve highly.
With students at the heart of our mission, the Student Support Coordinator (High/Most Able) provides bespoke support to students in this identified cohort by working at the intersection of academic excellence and holistic wellbeing. They act as a central pillar of our community, collaborating with teaching staff, the Progression and Wellbeing Teams, Academic Mentors, and external partners to remove barriers to success. In this role, you will champion a diverse and inclusive environment, setting the standard for professional conduct while ensuring every student has the platform to flourish and succeed.
As a Student Support Coordinator, you will be joining a team of skilled and dedicated professionals who are committed to making a real difference. You’ll need excellent communication and organisational skills, a strong understanding of the needs of young people, and the resilience to respond to the fast-paced, ever-changing demands of sixth form life and post-16 students.
We offer a supportive and inclusive working environment, ongoing professional development and the opportunity to play a key role in shaping the future with our students. If you are passionate about supporting young people and want to be part of a team that genuinely values care, high standards and ambition, we would love to hear from you.
Thank you for considering this role at Durham Sixth Form Centre. We look forward to learning more about you and hopefully welcoming you to our team. We would strongly encourage candidates interested in this role to visit us in advance and apply early. Should you wish to discuss this role further, or to arrange a visit, please do not hesitate to contact me directly.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
We are looking for someone who:
• Inspires High Aspirations: Has the ability to inspire and challenge both students and colleagues to strive for academic excellence.
• Understands Ambitious Pathways: Is deeply committed to academic stretching and understands the unique challenges and opportunities facing high-ability learners.
• Has Exceptional Organisation: Possesses precision in managing complex processes.
• Builds Strong Partnerships: Develops respectful and professional relationships with students, families, staff, and external academic or professional agencies.
• Communicates with Impact: Communicates with clarity, empathy and confidence in a fast-paced and intellectually dynamic environment.
• Promotes Resilience: Shares our belief that every young person - regardless of their starting point—deserves the opportunity to be challenged and to succeed.
What the school offers its staff
We are looking to recruit an exceptional Student Support Coordinator (High/Most Able) to join our outstanding sixth form team, part of the Providence Learning Partnership, where unwavering support, care, and guidance for our post-16 learners is at the heart of everything we do. This is an exciting opportunity to make a profound difference in the lives of our highest-achieving young people, ensuring they are stretched, challenged, and supported to reach the most competitive global destinations during two of the most critical years of their education.
What Makes This Role Exciting?
• Champion Academic Excellence: Play a vital role in supporting our high-achieving learners, helping them navigate academic pressure and achieve world-class potential.
• Dedicated Cohort Advocacy: Oversee and support a dedicated cohort of High/Most Able students, ensuring they are known, valued and intellectually championed throughout their sixth form journey.
• Elite Progression & Enrichment: Coordinate and facilitate high-level enrichment and aspirational HE and career choices.Collaborative Pastoral Care: Work collaboratively with other colleagues to deliver tailored interventions that balance high academic expectations with robust wellbeing.
• Outstanding setting: Be part of a thriving, oversubscribed sixth form with a national reputation for excellence and inclusion.
Why choose us?
• Be a part of an Investors in People: Platinum [Employer of the Year 2025] organisation.
• We are a flourishing high-performing sixth form where students achieve and exceed their potential.
• Be part of a team that’s ambitious, supportive, and driven by purpose.
• Benefit from personalised CPD, leadership coaching, and genuine career progression.
Join Durham Sixth Form Centre as a Student Support Coordinator (High/MA). Support and inspire the next generation of post-16 students in a nationally recognised, high-performing sixth form. We are located in the heart of Durham, just 20 minutes from Sunderland and 30 minutes from Newcastle city centre.
Further details about the role
Thank you for your interest in the role of Student Support Coordinator (High/Most Able) at Durham Sixth Form Centre. We are delighted that you are considering joining our dedicated and dynamic team, who play a vital role in our centre’s success and student experience.
The Student Support Coordinator (High/Most Able) is a pivotal new appointment at Durham Sixth Form Centre. As lead professionals and role models, Student Support Coordinators embody our core values, fostering an ethos of academic rigour, exemplary behaviour and mutual respect. This role is directly accountable for the coordination of programmes and support for students with High Prior Attainment and those identified as being ‘Most Able’ (based on their average GCSE scores), ensuring that our highest-achieving learners are consistently challenged and inspired to achieve highly.
With students at the heart of our mission, the Student Support Coordinator (High/Most Able) provides bespoke support to students in this identified cohort by working at the intersection of academic excellence and holistic wellbeing. They act as a central pillar of our community, collaborating with teaching staff, the Progression and Wellbeing Teams, Academic Mentors, and external partners to remove barriers to success. In this role, you will champion a diverse and inclusive environment, setting the standard for professional conduct while ensuring every student has the platform to flourish and succeed.
As a Student Support Coordinator, you will be joining a team of skilled and dedicated professionals who are committed to making a real difference. You’ll need excellent communication and organisational skills, a strong understanding of the needs of young people, and the resilience to respond to the fast-paced, ever-changing demands of sixth form life and post-16 students.
We offer a supportive and inclusive working environment, ongoing professional development and the opportunity to play a key role in shaping the future with our students. If you are passionate about supporting young people and want to be part of a team that genuinely values care, high standards and ambition, we would love to hear from you.
Thank you for considering this role at Durham Sixth Form Centre. We look forward to learning more about you and hopefully welcoming you to our team. We would strongly encourage candidates interested in this role to visit us in advance and apply early. Should you wish to discuss this role further, or to arrange a visit, please do not hesitate to contact me directly.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.