Learner Support Tutor

​Role: Learner Support Tutor (ALN / Accessibility)

Team: Operations - Learner Support

Package: Pension, Unlimited leave, Flexible working

Location: Remote working

Salary: £30,000

About Corndel:

Corndel is a unique, multi award-winning UK management and technology training provider that focuses on delivering the highest quality programmes throughout an employee’s career. We partner with some of the UK’s largest and most exciting businesses to help drive organisational and personal performance through transformational learning.

Our vision is to shape a world where everyone is empowered to be their professional best. We are one of the fastest growing companies in the UK and provide a great platform for proactive and motivated individuals to take the next exciting step in their career. You will be joining an organisation with a fun, entrepreneurial and supportive environment, providing fulfilling work and an open, informal culture.

The role:

To uphold and help deliver Corndel’s learner support policy, as well as training staff to raise awareness, knowledge and understanding of neurodiversity throughout Corndel.

To improve the processes and ways of working, that positions Corndel as the provider of choice and continue the company’s commitment to excellence in neurodiversity, accessibility, and learner support, providing learners with equal opportunity to succeed.

Responsibilities include:

• To provide administrative support for the Cognassist process for all Corndel’s apprenticeship provision to ensure maximum support is provided to apprentices to meet their learning needs and contribute positively to timely learner progress and achievement.

-Apprenticeships

-Commercial Support

-Corndel College London

• To improve and maintain engagement in learning support/Cognassist to maximise learner impact and funding income for all apprentices declaring learning needs.
• To maintain close links and ensure effective communication with all appropriate departments at Corndel and be the representative for external stakeholders in relation to apprenticeship learning support/Cognassist.

Key activity:

• Promote the importance of learner support within Corndel
• Uphold positive views of neurodiversity to reduce stigma surrounding learning needs
• Refer learners to Cognassist and overview completion of the neurodiversity assessment
• Support and liaise with Cognassist to mitigate any technical issues
• Create an individual learning plan for learners with additional needs
• Hold 121 sessions with learners to discuss their results and provide strategies to support neurodiversity to ensure completion of EPA and Maths and English assessments
• Adapt to ESFA rule changes in relation to measurement of ‘impact’ during apprenticeship period
• Develop and adapt resources to suit individual learner requirements
• Create and provide interactive resources and innovation to engage, stimulate, motivate, and challenge individuals to meet their agreed English & Mathematics targets
• Work closely with PDEs/Coaches and Tutors to provide them with strategies to support the learner
• Effectively communicate with PDEs/Coaches and Tutors to negotiate learner support strategies and agree on advice
• Deliver training to cohorts to support with revision and study techniques
• Monitor attendance of learners liaising with other personnel where applicable
• To achieve a monthly engagement target of 45 sessions in line with Corndel KPIs
• Use motivational dialogue to engage the learner in the learning process

Training

• Ensure operations’ staff understand the process and have an understanding of neurodiversity
• Deliver training sessions to ensure operations’ staff know how to support a learner with neurodiversity needs and understand the learner support process
• Provide specialised and tailored support
• To deliver Learning Support and Cognassist staff training to new staff and deliver update training to all relevant staff as required and support new staff to attend Cognassist training
• To be an ambassador for the Cognassist product, working with colleagues both internally and externally to ensure the benefits of learning support and the Cognassist system are communicated and are fully understood by learners and the apprenticeship team

Compliance

• Maintain and update the Cognassist system, in liaison with the Contracts Team to ensure the system is up-to-date and ensure learners removed if inactive and staff are allocated correctly to their learners
• Keep Aptem systems up to date for accurate data reporting
• Promote and safeguard the welfare of all learners and colleagues you are responsible for or encounter
• Maintain confidentiality always and ensure that company information is not disclosed to third parties
• Maintain documentation systems relevant to the progress of the individual ensuring reviews and learning plan accurately reflect learner targets, reviews and progression;
• To regularly report progress to the Learner Support Coordinator and Director of Skills for Business via reports and attendance at meetings

About You:

• You’re an enthusiastic self-starter – keen to help transform the way organisations develop their people
• You value inclusivity, being supportive and respectful of others
• You are open to change and take a collaborative approach to challenges
• You strive for excellence and have high expectations of yourself and others
• You operate with integrity, trust and professionalism and empower others to do so

Experience and Skills:

Essential:

• Qualifications relating to learner support needs (i.e. dyslexia/dyscalculia/ADHD)
• Experience of working with learners in a support capacity and with application of reasonable adjustments
• Strong administrative skills and organisation
• Experience of working with a range of learner levels

Desirable:

• Knowledge of Cognassist and the system software involved
• Qualifications relating to IAG
• Understanding of reasonable adjustment policies and examination flexibilities
• Experience of applying multiple support strategies

Why join Corndel?

• We're committed to having a fully inclusive, welcoming and safe culture and always striving to improve.
• We provide an environment that is truly flexible and supportive, somewhere you will have autonomy over your role.
• We're a leader in our field, with quality and excellence at the heart of what we do.
• We’re committed to innovation and technological solutions to succeed.

As part of our commitment to create an inclusive workplace where all colleagues can be their true selves, excel in their roles and progress in their careers, we recognise the importance of embracing the diversity in the working population and making Corndel a fully accessible employer.

As Corndel is a Disability Confident Employer, we make sure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a job will be offered an interview. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, when submitting your application, please select the appropriate option to let us know that you have a disability. Please note this does not mean that all disabled people are entitled to an interview, in some recruitment situations such as peak times, we might need to limit the overall numbers of interviews we offer.

If you have a disability that might affect any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know about any help or reasonable adjustments you need before any interview or assessment. We’ll work with you to make sure any appropriate support is in place and make the application process a more positive experience.

Corndel is committed to safeguarding and safer recruitment practices, and will undertake pre-employment checks on the successful candidate, including DBS Disclosure and a Barred List Check.