Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Kent County Council; Oake; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Kent County Council's Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking (UAS) Children’s Service is recruiting a Higher Learning Teaching Assistant (HLTA) to deliver ESOL tutoring at Reception Centres and Children’s Homes in Kent. The role focuses on supporting learning, engagement and safe educational experiences for vulnerable young people.

You will plan and deliver targeted sessions to individuals and groups, adapt teaching methods to meet needs, and work with a multidisciplinary team to support resettlement and

Qualifications

• Experienced in delivering robust learning plans that meet the ESOL education programme.
• Understand safety and wellbeing of UAS children.
• Able to adapt teaching approaches to best meet learning needs.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver tutoring sessions to individuals and groups of UAS children.
• Promote educational engagement, attainment and progress for young people in care awaiting transfer.
• Collaborate with reception centre staff and social care teams to support resettlement and progression.

Skills

Learning plans

Safety and wellbeing

Adapt teaching approaches

Job description

Kent County Council's Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking (UAS) Children's Service provides accommodation and support to newly arrived unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Kent. The Service leads on social care practice with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Kent, which Ofsted recognises as Outstanding. The Service is developing as a centre of excellence for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children that can show case social care and social work practice nationally. We are seeking passionate and skilled professionals to join us on this journey., We have an exciting opportunity available for one Higher Learning Teaching Assistant, as part of the English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Programme for UAS Children.

This is an opportunity to work in a Service where you will be responding to newly arrived unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, supporting their learning needs as a key component to their resettlement into the UK.

The primary focus of the post is to plan and deliver tutoring sessions to individuals and groups of UAS children placed at the Reception Centres or Children's Homes in Kent and to promote the educational engagement, attainment and progress of these young people, who are in care to Kent, and are waiting for a transfer to the care of other local authorities on the National Transfer Scheme (NTS).

Highly motivated and dedicated to supporting the learning needs of a vulnerable group children and young people

• Experienced in delivering robust learning plans, covering the agreed education programme
• Understanding of the safety and wellbeing of UAS children
• Able to adapt their teaching approaches to best meet the needs of the children and young people

The post is full time and we are taking applications for a HLTA to work with UAS children in our Reception Centre, Oak Manor, located in Cranbrook. For further details please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note - if you are interested, please apply soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.