Specialist Tutor

About The Role:

Have you experience of working with young people with Autism and SEMH?

As a Specialist Tutor you will work collaboratively with a team to support students with Autism and SEMH and develop strategies and systems to assess their needs to adopt success.

Are you able to think differently in how you support young people?
You'll be key in supporting and creatively teaching young people in small groups and on a 1-1 basis.

We're confident that at the end of your working day, you'll have overcome challenges and made a genuine difference, leaving a lasting impression.

As an Outstanding provider in East Kent, it's not a secret that we pride ourselves with our standards of supporting students.

But we also focus on the wellbeing and support for our employees.

Here are just some of the things we do:

• Offer competitive holiday entitlement (42 days FTE + bank holidays).
• Generous government pension scheme (23% company contribution).
• Paid time off for your children's first day at school, for interviews and when moving home.
• Enhanced paternity and maternity leave.
• Opportunities to develop, train and progress across our group of 6 colleges totalling 1600 staff.
• Counselling support and occupational health referrals.
• Cycle to work, car leasing and tech purchasing discount schemes.
• Annual community days, and 'My 10 Days' voluntary scheme where you can give back to something you are passionate about.
• Eco Sustainability Pledge to reach Net-Zero by 2030.

About You:

What are we looking for?

• Minimum of two years' experience of teaching students with Autism and/or SEMH.
• Qualified teacher (DET, PGCE or Certificate in Education).
• Degree level qualification related to specialist area.
• Experience of a range of conditions that impact learning
• SEND & SEMH.
• Safeguarding knowledge and understanding.

Please see the job description (which includes the person specification) for a full list of skills and experience that all applicants will be considered against)

About Us:

Outstanding Ofsted Provider
East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider.

It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework.

An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our 'Strong' skills grading by Ofsted.

Commitment to Safeguarding

Commitment to Equal Opportunities
We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.

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