Learner Support Worker
- Employer
- St John's School and College
- Location
- Seaford, East Sussex
- Salary
- Based on a 38 week contract
- Closing date
- 11 Apr 2019
Job Details
Are you looking for a new direction? Thinking of a career in education? Do you have any experience of working with children and young adults with learning disabilities?
If so, we are seeking enthusiastic individuals who are positive about learning disabilities to join our team as Learner Support Workers.
St. John’s is a specialist school and college offering high quality education and care for young people aged 7-25 with a wide range of special educational needs.
We are passionate about the continuous development of our colleagues and have a robust performance review and development programme in place. We will work with you to help you be the best that you can be. We offer both internal and external development opportunities to support you to progress your career.
Title: Learner Support Worker
Hours: 40 hours per week (8.30am – 4.30pm Monday –Friday)
Term time only + 32 days holiday + 8 Bank Holidays
Base: St. John’s School, Seaford
Salary: Starting salary £14,724
The role of Learner Support Worker is important in ensuring that the school and college meets the educational, social, emotional and physical needs of all learners. Our aim is to promote the inclusion of all learners ensuring they have equal access to opportunities to become as independent as possible. Functional literacy and numeracy are essential life skills for all our learners and we have an explicit expectation that all staff in learner facing roles will actively promote these skills:
* supporting efficient procedures within the session by undertaking routine tasks such as the organisation of resources, furniture and equipment; supporting individual learners or groups of learners under the direction and oversight of the session leader or other member of the staff;
* supporting learners behaviour during teaching sessions or other group activities; supervising individual learners or groups of learners during break times and at lunchtime. supervising individual learners or groups of learners when off site – this may include supporting a learner’s programme when at another local college, on recreational trips, in the community or when undertaking work experience and undertake duties relating to the medical care of learners that supports a learner’s attendance as directed by Medical/Therapy staff;
* observing, monitoring and supporting learners in order to support their attendance; track the progress of individual learners and report progress to the tutor, Assistant Director of Learning/Director of Integrated Services and parents at review meetings;
All job applicants will be required to provide 2 referees (one must be your most recent employer) and undertake an enhanced DBS Disclosure. This process forms part of our recruitment and safeguarding policy.
Please visit our company website where you can find the full job description and can complete our application form or submit your CV.
Company
St. John’s is a charity that provides education, care and therapy for learners with complex behaviours from 5- 25; we are based in Brighton and Seaford. We also offer training across the region and sector.
St. John’s is about improving lives by making a practical difference to the learners who access our services and by embracing their unique diversity. Our core mission is to enable our learners to achieve aspirational goals and to live their lives to the full. Recognising the complexity and scale of this task we focus our work around five placement outcomes which inform and guide all that we do:
• We promote well-being, the basis of effective learning
• We develop communication, the basis of engagement in society
• We focus on skill development, the basis of a productive life
• At all times we promote independence, a fundamental human right
• We passionately believe that all our learners can be employed, in some form, during their lives.
- Website
- http://www.st-johns.co.uk/
- Telephone
- 01273 244 048
- Location
-
Walpole Road
Brighton
East Sussex
BN2 0AF
GB
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