Sessional Learning Support Assistant: Emotional, Behavioural or Mental Health Difficulties and Autistic Spectrum Disorders (Fixed term contract; term time only)
Vision West Nottinghamshire College
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Up to £8.86 per hour with an additional payment made each month for the annual leave entitlement that is accrued in that month
- Job type:
- Part Time, Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- March/April
- Apply by:
- 11 April 2018
Job overview
There’s never been a more exciting time to join West Nottinghamshire College Group. West Nottinghamshire College Group has grown from a local college to an international organisation with a reputation for dynamism and success. The college group is made up of a number of separate companies all with education and training to the very highest level at their heart.
We embrace and encourage all those who are driven to better themselves, achieve their goals and reach new heights. Outstanding resources combined with exceptional tutors and student support means that whatever your ambition, we can help you to achieve it.
Vision Business Support Services Ltd (VBSS) provides high-quality support services to all aspects of the college group, VBSS is a subsidiary company of West Nottinghamshire College and provides an important service and plays a pivotal part in the success of the college and creating an exceptional learner experience.
JOINING OUR JOURNEY
When you join our college, our staff have access to numerous benefits and facilities: •Pension Scheme
•Occupational Health Service
•Enhanced Maternity/Paternity provision
•Staff Development days/week (July)
•Free confidential counselling service
•Staff recognition awards
•Free car parking
•On-site Butterflies Day Nursery (Derby Road)
•On-site hair and beauty salon, Revive Spa, fine dining Refine Restaurant and Create Theatre.
ABOUT THE ROLE
You will be part of a team that provides a wide range of support services to learners who have Emotional Behavioural or Mental Health Difficulties and/or Autistic Spectrum Disorders. The ideal candidate will be required to work under the guidance of the Co-ordinator: EBD/ASD/MH using the strategies recommend in the Individual Learning and/or Behaviour Plan.
Duties will include liaising with teaching staff, outside agencies, parents/carers and schools. You are required to have a flexible and professional approach to your work, possessing sound interpersonal and communication skills and a professional approach to your work. You will need the ability to work as part of a team whilst demonstrating that you can use your own initiative to work independently, without close supervision.
This post is offered on a sessional basis; fixed term; term time only. This post is a flexible contract in order to support specific learners attending the college and in the event that the support hours for these learners reduce, or the learner leaves the college then the contract hours will also be reduced or ended.
The role will require you to embed the companies’ values; working with Professionalism, taking Responsibility for your actions, and giving Respect to clients and colleagues alike.
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About Vision West Nottinghamshire College
- Vision West Nottinghamshire College
- Derby Road, Mansfield
- Nottinghamshire
- NG18 5BH
- United Kingdom
Vision West Nottinghamshire College is a mixed, non-denominational further education college in Nottinghamshire serving students from the age of 16 and above. The college has approximately 1,200 full and part-time students attending every year. The college has six sites based in Ashfield and Mansfield.
Vision West Nottinghamshire College was established as a Technical College in 1928. It was renamed Vision West Nottinghamshire College in 2011. Facilities across the campuses include an engineering innovation centre, art and design centre, sports hall, a hair and beauty training salon and a training restaurant for catering and hospitality students to train in.
Principal and Chief Executive
Dame Asha Knemka DBE
Values and vision
Vision West Nottinghamshire College’s vision is to be “A dynamic college for aspiring communities.” The college wants all students to receive a personalised, high quality education where their skills and confidence is developed to allow for them to succeed to the best of their capability. Students are nurtured to respect differences and become responsible young adults who adopt a professional and mature attitude to their work. The college’s motto is “Attaining excellence, reaching new heights,” and has won a number of awards over the years, including a Beacon status and a gold award in the Green Impact Students’ Union Awards.
Ofsted
“Most learners make good progress, contribute well to their community and develop a good range of skills that enhance their job prospects. Learners enjoy their courses in college and in the workplace and are encouraged successfully to raise their aspirations and adopt healthy lifestyles.”
View Vision West Nottinghamshire College’s latest Ofsted report
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