Higher Level Teaching Assistant - Oak Manor

Kent County Council; Lisburn; In loco; GBP 22.000 - 27.000; Tempo pieno

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Kent County Council is seeking a Higher Learning Teaching Assistant to support the ESOL programme for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UAS) in Kent. The role focuses on planning and delivering tutoring sessions for individuals and groups at Reception Centres and Oak Manor, Cranbrook, enhancing educational engagement and progress for children in care awaiting transfer under the NTS.

The successful candidate will deliver robust learning plans, understand safeguarding needs, and adapt

Competenze

• Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver learning plans aligned to education programme.
• Understanding of safeguarding and welfare of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.
• Ability to adapt teaching methods to meet diverse learner needs.

Mansioni

• Plan and deliver tutoring sessions to individuals and groups of UAS children.
• Promote educational engagement, attainment and progress for those in care.
• Work at Reception Centres or Oak Manor in Cranbrook to support learning.

Conoscenze

Motivated and dedicated

Learning plans

Safety and wellbeing

Adapt teaching approaches

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Role Responsibility

Kent County Councils Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking (UAS) Childrens 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 Childrens 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).

We are looking for applicants who are:

• 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.

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.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring service.