SEND Support Practitioner

BURNLEY COLLEGE; Burnley; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Burnley College is seeking Support Practitioners to provide high-quality support to individuals or small groups, delivering sessions that help learners understand and record their work while considering their needs for holistic health and wellbeing.

The role focuses on supporting learners with Special Educational Needs or Disabilities (SEND), requires general education to level 3 and Maths/English to level 2, and a Level 2 Learning Support qualification or willingness to achieve one promptly.

Qualifications

• Must have Level 2 Learning Support qualification or be willing to achieve one in a timely manner.
• General education to at least level 3; Maths and English to at least level 2.
• Experience or understanding of SEN needs and learning barriers.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality support to individuals or small groups across the College.
• Help learners understand and record their work while considering individual needs.
• Contribute to safeguarding and promoting welfare of learners and to the college’s inclusive environment.

Skills

Student support

Education

Level 2 Learning Support qualification

GCSEs including Maths and English (minimum level 2)

Job description

The Support Practitioners will deliver a high quality and effective support provision to individuals or small groups across the College, ensuring a consistently outstanding learning experience. They will place and deliver relevant, supportive sessions, helping students to understand and record their work whilst considering their specific needs to ensure their holistic health and wellbeing.

Due to continued development and investment in our Additional Learning Support offer, as well as exciting curriculum changes, we are seeking to add to a team of experienced, positive and passionate individuals, who will provide high quality and innovative support to learners with a Special Educational Need or Disability (SEND)

With a good general education to at least level 3 and Maths and English to least at level 2, you will also possess at a minimum, a Level 2 Learning Support qualification, or be willing to achieve one in a timely manner.

Though further training will be given, you will already have the knowledge, experience and understanding of specific issues relevant to learners with SEN needs or learning difficulties/disabilities. As part of this, you will understand the potential barriers to learning and the strategies to enable learners to overcome them.

Burnley College Sixth Form Centre provides first-class Further Education, University Education, Apprenticeship, business training and adult learning programmes, in the heart of Pennine Lancashire. Please also see our College Charter below.

At Burnley College, we celebrate the diversity of all our staff, students and visitors. We provide a safe and supportive environment in which everyone is able to study and work to the best of their abilities and we are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all.

The College is dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all learners and expects all staff to share in this commitment. Employment at the College is subject to an Enhanced DBS Check via the Disclosure and Barring Service and any post involving regulated activity will also be subject to an additional barred list check.