Communication Support Assistant

3 weeks ago


Cardiff, United Kingdom Cardiff and Vale College Full time

**Internal / External Vacancy**

**Ref: 12190**

**Job Title: Communication Support Assistant**

**Contract: Casual Contract, Term Time only**

**Hours: Minimum of 4 hours per week across a 34 week period.**

**Salary: £13.44 per hour**

An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Inclusive Learning department for a casual Communication Support Assistant. The post holder will support learners in conveying the content of lectures, tutorials and other activities in a form appropriate to the needs of the learners e.g. BSL, SSE, modifying language or note taking.

This may also involve facilitating communication between students and their peers/tutor/other colleagues.

Responsibilities include:

- Working with students in class to offer individual/small group support to enable learning and integrate the students into College life. Adapting and modifying content, structure and language.
- Supporting students to use assistive technology and specialist software.
- Liaising with teaching staff to ensure that all students are able to access the support they need to enable learning. This will include:

- Accessing lesson content in advance and fully preparing for lessons.
- Discussing the role of the CSW during the class.
- Working with students during cross-College events to support their integration into College life.
- Supporting learners outside the classroom e.g. on College trips, during work experience (where necessary).
- Maintaining accurate records, reporting on the needs and progress of students, using IT systems.

The ability to communicate with learners through the medium of BSL is essential for this role.

In return for your hard work and dedication to our learners we offer fantastic benefits including a generous pension scheme, cash health plan, employee assistance programme, access to our Cycle to Work, Headspace app and access to money saving benefits through our Reward Gateway scheme.

**These are contractual agreements that must be in place before your employment can commence.**

We are committed to the recruitment and retention of disabled people, and are a positive disability confident scheme employer.



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