Aspire Inclusion Coach

Are you passionate about inclusive education and supporting learners with additional needs? Do you have the expertise to drive compliance, strategy, and impact while supporting a team who work directly with ALS learners? Impact Futures Group is looking for an Aspire Inclusion Coach to join their Quality team and help shape inclusive education that transforms futures.

Please note the closing date for this position is Thursday 22nd July 3pm. Interviews will take place between 30th July & 5th August.

The Role:

The Aspire Inclusion Coach plays a pivotal role in ensuring learners with additional learning needs, disabilities, social, emotional and mental health needs, or other barriers to learning receive high-quality, timely, and effective support throughout their learning journey. A key responsibility of the role is the effective caseload management and oversight of Learning Support funding. The Aspire Inclusion Coach will ensure that all funding requirements are met through robust monitoring, accurate record-keeping, and the provision of effective reporting systems that track learner progress, support interventions, outcomes, and compliance.

Working closely with the Audit and Compliance Team, the postholder will undertake regular monthly audits and implement follow-up actions to secure first-time compliance with Additional Learning Support (ALS) funding requirements and associated quality standards. The Aspire Inclusion Coach will contribute to the development and implementation of strategies that ensure learners identified as requiring additional support are appropriately assessed, supported, and monitored to achieve positive educational outcomes.

The role will work collaboratively with delivery teams, support colleagues, external agencies, and other key stakeholders to coordinate and allocate support resources effectively, ensuring that learner needs are met and that support interventions demonstrably improve engagement, achievement, retention, attendance, wellbeing, and progression.

Through coaching, mentoring, advocacy, and the promotion of inclusive practice, the Aspire Inclusion Coach will foster a culture of high aspirations, equality, and learner-centered support, ensuring all learners are empowered to achieve their full potential.

The role will involve:

• Supporting effective working practices to ensure delivery of high-quality learning support in a variety of contexts and via a range of delivery methods.
• Utilising performance management techniques in order to measure learner progress and outcomes, embedding quality standards and setting service level agreements.
• Carrying out regular supportive conversations with Development Coaches, providing coaching, mentoring and guidance to support performance objectives, learner outcomes and continuous improvement.
• Keeping up to date with matters relating to additional learning support, including legislation, funding and models of best practice.

You’ll be joining a leading national training provider at an exciting time of growth and expansion, working in a fun and supportive environment in an organisation with a strong focus on people and culture. Expect regular catch-ups and socials with your team, surprises in the post and company-wide social events - we’re a friendly bunch.

The Benefits:

• 25 days holiday plus public and bank holidays.
• Buy an additional 5 days annual leave.
• Birthday day off.
• Christmas Shut down with three days paid leave.
• Volunteer day.
• Enhanced Sick Pay.
• BUPA Healthcare Cashback plan.
• Enhanced Maternity paid leave.
• Enhanced Paternity paid leave.
• Grandparent paid leave.
• Bereavement paid leave.
• Life Assurance.
• Refer a friend bonus.
• Electric Car Scheme - 3% pension contribution using pension provider NEST.
• Shopping discount & cash back platform.
• Employee Financial Wellbeing support.
• Employee Assistance Helpline.
• Company events and social gatherings.
• Appreciation gifts.

About you:

• Thorough and up to date knowledge of additional learning support funding requirements, compliance processes, and audit expectations.
• Understanding of SEND legislation, inclusive practice, access arrangements, reasonable adjustments, and special considerations.
• Experience of supporting learners with additional learning needs, SEND, or barriers to learning.
• Experience of working collaboratively with delivery teams and stakeholders to coordinate effective learner support.

Desirable:

• Relevant qualification in SEND, Learning Support, Education, Coaching, Mentoring, or a related field.
• Experience of managing ALS provision and funding claims.
• Experience of audits, quality assurance, and compliance activities.
• Experience of coaching and mentoring colleagues.
• Experience within apprenticeships, work-based learning, or training provider environments.
• Knowledge of current developments in SEND, inclusion, and learner support within the FE and Skills sector.
• Experience supporting remote or blended learning.

About Us:

Impact Futures Group is one of the UK’s largest independently owned training providers, delivering apprenticeships and vocational qualifications. Our expertise is underpinned by our Ofsted Grade 2 'Good’ accreditation, and learner-centric delivery is at the heart of our continual operational evolution to ensure our learners receive an outstanding learning journey. We are the 23rd best large employer in the UK and the 6th best education provider. We have been awarded a prestigious 2-star accreditation for being an outstanding company to work for. We are an Equal Opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. An enhanced DBS check will be required for this role.