Senior Teaching Aide for Work Start

Hours: 36 hours per week, Monday to Friday, Term Time Only

Are you passionate about empowering and enabling students to gain employment? We are looking for a personable, motivated Senior Teaching Aide to join our busy, vibrant College, to work within our Workstart provision, where our committed workforce is dedicated to empowering and enabling students to achieve sustained employment.

Senior Teaching Aides proactively support our students to develop employability skills, to access work placements, voluntary placements and enterprise groups. To develop their English and maths skills, and ultimately, to progress into employment. You will be required to lead sessions and prepare, plan and implement employability activities.  You will also be required to ensure that an effective level of support and care is on offer to encourage and enable students to participate fully in work activities. If you have experience of working effectively with students with SEND or barriers to learning, and you have the drive and tenacity to establish networks with external stakeholders, we would love to hear from you. 

Orchard Hill College & Academy Trust (OHC&AT) is a family of schools and college centres that work together to enable students to achieve their maximum potential in their local communities.  Working with our local communities we facilitate the growth of independence, the achievement of every student’s potential to encourage a positive and successful future. It is a unique and rewarding place to work and has both a broad range of learners and a dynamic and supportive staff team. Our Work Start courses operate out of bases in Sutton region, Kingston region, Southwark region and Hillingdon region and were graded by Ofsted as Grade 1 (Outstanding) in December 2013 and maintained this grade in November 2019.

To apply for this role please send your completed application form to jobs@orchardhill.ac.uk. 

Please note that CV applications will not be considered.

Closing date:   12 noon on Monday 17th May 2021

This college is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.