Learning Support Facilitator - Aspirations

Tameside College; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A diverse further education institution in the United Kingdom is seeking a Learning Support Facilitator to assist learners with diverse needs including disabilities and barriers to learning. The role involves providing emotional support, working alongside tutors, and ensuring learners can access the curriculum effectively. The ideal candidate should have prior experience supporting young people and a passion for helping learners achieve their full potential. This position offers competitive benefits and a supportive working environment.

Benefits

Cycle to Work scheme

Free on-site Gym

Retail Discounts

Local Government Pension Scheme

33 days' holidays

Qualifications

• Previous experience in supporting young people with learning barriers.
• Sound understanding of issues facing young learners.
• Ability to remain calm and manage challenging situations.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to learners with a variety of needs.
• Encourage participation in the learning environment.
• Work alongside tutors to facilitate curriculum access.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Problem-solving

Motivating students

Job description

Responsibilities

As a Learning Support Facilitator in our Aspirations department, you will provide a range of support to learners with a variety of needs including difficulties/disabilities, Literacy, Numeracy and Language. You will also provide emotional support and encourage participation in the learning environment and may be required to support learners with personal care needs.

Here’s the standard bit: You will support learners across a wide range of vocational subjects and may be required to work at more than one of the college’s centres. You will work alongside classroom tutors to break down barriers and ensure that learners are able to access the curriculum and reach their full potential. You will ensure that individual learner needs are met and contribute to raising awareness and understanding of the needs of individual learners in the wider college community.

What You’ll Need

With some previous experience in supporting young people, you will have a sound understanding of the range of issues facing young people with barriers to their learning (including social, emotional and behavioural) and have an ability to motivate students with differing needs and abilities. You will have excellent interpersonal skills in working with students, ability to remain calm and a problem solving approach to managing challenging situations.

Our Ideal Candidate

We require a skilled and highly motivated individual to join our established Aspirations Team. You will have the passion to inspire every learner to reach their full potential regardless of their starting point.

About Us

Tameside College in Ashton-Under-Lyne Greater Manchester is a diverse and vibrant further education college that offers a wide range of courses including A level and advanced level vocational study programmes, Apprenticeships and adult courses up to degree Level. We aim to give all our students an exceptional experience.

Benefits

We offer an enhanced benefit package which includes a Cycle to Work scheme, Free on site Gym at our Beaufort Road campus, Retail Discounts, Local Government Pension Scheme, you’ll get 33 days’ holidays for a full time position pro rata for factual positions, to name a few.

Additional Information

We believe in excellence and back that up with high expectations, a superb working environment (as part of the Vision Tameside £100 million+ accommodation strategy) and outstanding teaching. We also believe that attending college is about more than achieving a qualification, important though that is. This is why we aim to give learners every opportunity to develop their full potential in a supportive and friendly environment.

Safe Recruitment

Please note Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 guidance requires us to carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This is to enable us to identify any incidents or issues which we might want to explore at interview with you. Once shortlisting has taken place, this search will be carried out for all candidates who are invited to attend an interview.

Application Process

Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we are unfortunately not able to respond to each applicant. If you have not been called for interview within 3 weeks of the closing date, you should assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

Closing

Subject to the volume of applications we may decide to close the vacancy earlier than advertised.