Learning Support Assistant (Personal Care)
Northampton College
Northamptonshire
- Salary:
- £22,329 per annum based on full time, full year hours. Actual salary will be dependent on hours and weeks worked.
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 31 July 2024
Job overview
Learning Support Assistant (Personal Care)
Ref: ME2223017
Hours: This role is based around 15-25 hours per week over 35-36 weeks per year (individual requirements to be discussed at interview). On working days this post will be required to start at either 9am and/or be able to finish at 5pm.
Salary: £22,329 per annum based on full time, full year hours. Actual salary will be dependent on hours and weeks worked.
Reporting to: Support Practitioner - Personal Care
Primary Location: Northampton, Booth Lane Campus/Lower Mounts/ Daventry (Please
indicate your preference of site on the application)
Closing Date: The recruitment for these roles is ongoing
About Northampton College
Northampton College is proud to be the leading provider of further education in the South East Midlands region. As a College, who have been rated by Ofsted as ‘good’ with outstanding features, we are committed to developing the professional and technical skills of our students, who are the workforce and leaders of the future.
The Team
The Personal Care Team are very proud to support Northampton College’s culture of high standards, an inclusive working and learning environment, and a professional committed workforce who are focussed on supporting our students to achieve the best they possibly can.
The Role
To provide support for groups of students and individual students with personal care needs, who have been assessed and identified as requiring support, both in classes and around the college. To ensure they are given an equal opportunity of achieving their qualification aims.
The post holder will also be required to support student’s cross-college as and when the business requires.
The Successful Candidate
The successful candidate’s knowledge, skills, experience, abilities and qualities will include:
- Level 2 Qualifications in Maths and/or English
- Experience of providing personal care to young people or adults with learning difficulties and/or disabilities
- A First Aid qualification or the willingness to obtain this.
Rewards and Benefits include
- 35 days pro rata annual leave, comprising 24 personal days, pro rata (1 September – 31 August), including 8 bank holidays and 3 closure days. The College reserves the right to designate up to 3 closure days per holiday year **Holiday entitlement will be included in monthly pay to the value of 35 days per annum pro rata
- Discounts through membership of the NUS, ranging from Student Prime (Amazon), to eating out, fashion, beauty, entertainment, technology and travel
- Eligible to join the Local Government Pension Scheme (a defined benefit scheme including an employer contribution rate of 22.9%)
- Right to request flexible working from start date
- Access to continued professional development
- Free car parking
- Gym facilities
- 24 hours per day, 365 days per year Employee Support Helpline
- Enhanced maternity/shared parental and paternity schemes
- Paid Compassionate Leave - up to five working days paid absence (in a rolling twelve-month period) on compassionate grounds in the event of bereavement or serious illness of a close relative)
If you would like to be a part of our successful team please go to https://www.northamptoncollege.ac.uk/working-for-us.html for further details on how to apply.
This post will require a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
Attached documents
About Northampton College
- Northampton College
- Booth Lane, Northampton
- Northamptonshire
- NN3 3RF
- United Kingdom
Northampton College is a mixed, non-selective, non-denominational further education college situated in Northamptonshire. It is a 16-plus institution with three campuses: a major building at its main Northampton site, a smaller campus near the town centre and another 20 miles away in Daventry. It provides places for around 9,000 students aged 16 and over, most of whom are full-time and aged 16-18.
Northampton College was opened in 1973. It merged with Daventry Tertiary College to expand its Daventry campus in August 2004, and its Booth Lane campus reopened after a large redevelopment in 2012.
Principal
Pat Brennan-Barrett
Values and vision
Northampton College’s mission is to give students a sense of development through education. It is an inclusive learning environment that focuses on key strands of provision, provides high-quality learning experiences, and works alongside the local community to create a wider level of participation in learning. The college ethos promotes mutual respect, a high level of engagement and playing a positive role in the community.
Ofsted report
“The inclusive culture promotes a high level of recruitment of students from diverse backgrounds and with a wide range of abilities, many of whom are successful in gaining qualifications and progressing to higher levels of study. Resources and accommodation are almost all of a very high quality and are used very effectively; the learning environment is safe, very well-maintained and welcoming. Governors are very knowledgeable and provide well-informed and constructive challenge to managers in order to promote improvement.”
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