Learning Coordinator - Looked After Children

About the Role

Southwark College is seeking a compassionate and dedicated Learning Co-ordinator - Looked After Children (LAC) to support some of our most vulnerable learners, including Looked After Children, Care Leavers, and unaccompanied asylum seekers. In this rewarding role, you will provide tailored pastoral support, mentoring and advocacy to help students succeed in their education and progress to positive destinations. You'll work closely with curriculum teams, safeguarding staff, Local Authorities, and external agencies to ensure students receive the highest level of support throughout their journey.

At Southwark College, you will be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where your work has a direct impact on transforming lives. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference in supporting learners to achieve their full potential.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide 1:1 and small group support , mentoring, and guidance to care-experienced students (including Looked After Children and Care Leavers)
• Act as the main point of contact for care-experienced students, offering consistent, trusted support
• Lead and coordinate Personal Education Plans (PEPs) for Looked After Children (LAC), ensuring compliance with statutory requirements and timelines
• Work collaboratively with social services, carers, Virtual Schools, and external agencies to support student outcomes
• Monitor and track student attendance, progress, achievement, and progression , intervening where required
• Support learners with transition into college , ongoing wellbeing, and progression planning, including higher education, apprenticeships, and careers
• Assist students in accessing financial support , including bursaries and related entitlements
• Deliver training and guidance for staff to improve understanding of and support for care-experienced students
• Maintain accurate and timely records and reporting systems , including tracking of support, PEP outcomes and student progress

Interviews will be held on 17 June 2026

About Southwark College

Southwark College is a large further education college in London, offering an exciting range of work-focused courses that give our students the skills and experience they need to develop their employment potential. We provide a friendly, supportive learning environment where talent is nurtured.

We're proud of our success in achieving excellent results and producing knowledgeable and successful students, but we're built on our staff and our success is down to recruiting and retaining the best possible talent. Helping our young people and adults to fulfil their potential and often transform their lives through education requires dedication, patience and the ability to think differently. That's why we set out to recruit staff with a genuine passion for further education and a commitment to ensuring all students achieve their potential, whatever barriers they need to overcome.

We'd love you to join the team if you want to make a real difference to the lives of students, local employers and the wider Southwark community. In return, we'll provide you with a range of development opportunities, benefits and support to help you fulfil your role.

Southwark College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff to share this commitment.

At Southwark College, our values are not just about what we do, but also about how we do things.

Our values underpin the culture and beliefs of our organisation, we expect all our staff to demonstrate behaviours in line with our core values.

1. Being both inclusive and diverse

2. Trusting and respecting our communities

3. Taking ownership whilst working collaboratively

4. Inspiring excellence and curiosity.

As part of the NCG Group, Southwark College offers an excellent benefits package, including generous holiday entitlement, access to the Teachers' pension scheme (for teaching posts) or Local Government pension scheme (non-teaching posts), company sick pay, a cycle to work scheme and much more.

NCG seeks to promote and maintain an equal, diverse, inclusive and supportive environment for work and study that assists all members of our communities to reach their full potential. We are committed to achieving a truly representative workforce and therefore welcome applications from across the national and regional communities that we work with and serve.

To view Job Description, Person Specification and NCG Values Pack please click the document attachment at the bottom of this advert. No agency applications will be accepted.

NCG reserve the right to close the vacancy early.

NCG is a great place to work, with a whole host of benefits such as:

• Generous Annual Leave

• Government Pension Schemes

• Competitive Salaries

• Flexible Working

• Cycle to Work Scheme

• Access to Discounts

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Training and Development Opportunities

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