Learning Support Assistant
Livability Nash College
Bromley
- £13.15 per hour
- Expiring soon
- Quick apply
- Salary:
- Pro-rata depending on experience and qualification
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 29 November 2024
Job overview
Exceptional People Deserve Exceptional Staff
Do you have the passion, talent and skills that can make a difference for the students we support?
We are looking for highly motivated, enthusiastic and caring individuals to join Livability's Nash College team
Working at Nash offers you excellent career prospects and training opportunities in a thriving successful College which provides specialist day education for 50 students, aged 19 to 25 with a range of complex learning needs and physical disabilities.
Applicants for the above post should be imaginative, dynamic and committed to the principles of inclusive education.
Main Duties are:
- Supporting class Co-tutor and lecturer with the preparation of resources to meet the personalized learning intentions of allocated students.
- Providing 1:1 support under supervision for the delivery of skills based learning.
- To use a range of communication strategies to support communication with students with complex needs.
- To support the social and emotional needs of young people
- Work closely with class lecturer to report on progress using an evidence based approach
To be successful in this role you will:
- Be able to build and maintain successful relationships with students; treating them consistently with respect and consideration
- Promote and reinforce student’s self-esteem, social development and independence, encouraging students to interact with others and engage in activities.
- Support students’ in or outside the classroom throughout the school day, in a range of subjects and activities
- Assist and support students with therapy needs as directed by the Therapists, including Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Speech Therapy
- To support students’ learning in the wider curriculum, this may include visits and trips out of school as required.
- Be flexible, adaptable and work collaboratively with colleagues
- Have a compassionate nature, with a real desire to help others
Livability positively welcomes applications from all sections of the community in which we work. The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its students, and it is the responsibility of all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure check.
Registered Charity No: 1116530
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About Livability Nash College
- Livability Nash College
- Coney Hill Education Centre, Croydon Road, Hayes, Bromley
- Kent
- BR2 7AG
- United Kingdom
Livability Nash College is an independent specialist further education college for disabled people aged 19-25.
Based in Hayes, Bromley, the college caters for a range of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) including physical, communication and sensory disabilities, medical conditions or autism, in addition to learning disabilities, from severe to profound.
Our approach places a particular emphasis on ‘Learning Through Living’ – personalised learning, facilitating a range of communication needs, and supporting students in the community and with future vocational opportunities. The Course title is ‘Skills for Adult Life’ and runs for three years with an optional fourth year.
Education at Nash College
For students who are not taking qualifications, study programmes focus on high quality work experience, and on non-qualification activity which prepares them well for employment, independent living, being healthy adults and participating in society.” (SEN Code of practice)’.
Nash college offers a four strand provision that is personalised for each student using a content and context that is tailored to personal interests and abilities. Where accreditation is thought to be suitable, courses are selected based on impact, on EHCP outcomes and the provision of education at a level than ensures progression from previous learning for each student.
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