Learning Support Specialist

3 weeks ago


Exeter Devon, United Kingdom Exeter College Full time

About the role

Are you looking for a teaching role where you have planning time built into your working day and where there is a reduced need to plan from home? If so, the Learning Support Specialist role might be for you.

As this is role follows the academic year, it is largely term time (36 weeks). We will use the additional weeks to support SEND interview evenings which happen across the academic year. This also includes supporting the exciting enrolment process where you will have the opportunity to talk to new students and share the outstanding provisions we offer.

We are looking for a proactive and caring professional to provide 1:1 or small group study skills support to learners with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia, dyspraxia and autistic spectrum, supporting their literacy, numeracy, organisational skills etc. Candidate must hold a Level 5 teaching qualification (PGCE, Certificate in Education or equivalent)

You will be working as part of an outstanding cross-college team of Learning Support Specialists, in-class Learning Assistants and SpLD Assessors. These roles will require you to work closely with Tutors and Subject Lecturers to help our students succeed in their main programme of study.

This is an exciting, challenging and varied role that will suit an experienced teaching professional who is able to work on their own initiative as well as being a team player. If providing learners the opportunity to achieve in education is the role for you, please apply via the Exeter College website.

About us

Our values – Ambition, Collaboration, Energy

Our values are what make us, us.Please do take a couple of minutes to learn more about them.

Please click to hear from some of our staff about their experience of working as part of our team.

Your benefits

At the college, we offer a wide range of benefits, from generous annual leave, pension schemes, benefits platforms to full days dedicated to staff development. To see the full list please see our careers page - Careers With Exeter College(exe-coll.ac.uk)

Applying for the role

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The closing date for receipt of completed applications is midnight on 16th May.

We will be holding a selection process for this position, date TBC

We do not accept CVs, no agencies please.

Key Information

At Exeter College we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our student's including children, young people, and vulnerable adults. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow the Safer Recruitment requirements as set out within Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance.

All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.

All posts at Exeter College are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further inform.

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity and access for all, irrespective of age, background, race, gender, religion, ability, disability, or sexuality. We welcome applications for employment from the whole community.

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