Education Support Worker

5 months ago


Bedford, United Kingdom Sense Employees Full time

**Could you be a Sense Education Support Worker?**

We now have opportunities for an Education Support Workers to join our Sense College in Bedford.

This is a permanent role, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 9am-4.30pm. With the role being in a college; you would work for 52 weeks per year.

As an Education Support Worker, you will work with individuals who have dual or single sensory impairment, learning disability and / or autism. The role involves providing a person
- centered approach to meet communication, information and mobility needs.

You will support learners to be as involved as possible in every part of their day to day lives so that they can be full and active members of society.

Does this sound right for you?

**Working at Sense gives you a wide range of benefits including**:

- 24 days’ holiday + bank holiday entitlement (pro rata for part time); increasing with length of service
- Free DBS Check
- Free leadership and management development (such as our award winning Growing Stronger Leaders Together programme)
- Free access to over 100 online and face to face training including the care certificate.
- On-going development opportunities
- Flexible working and family friendly policies
- Employee referral scheme
- Health and well-being support
- Pension Scheme
- Discount scheme

**Your duties can include**:

- To support individuals / groups within the centre and community.
- Team members who support learners with core funded educational needs will also carry out the following education related responsibilities under the guidance of senior education colleagues.
- Maintaining a Continuous Professional Development (CPD).
- Representing the college at external professional development events for Support Workers.
- Contributing to Individual Learning Plans/ targets and monitoring progress of these.
- Playing a key role in ongoing assessment of learners
- To provide a customised, responsive and high quality service to people with multiple sensory impairments, physical and/or learning disabilities who use Sense services.
- To deliver services which meet or exceed organisational expectations and standards.
- Full job specification is attached below.

**Your required skills and experiences**:

- Previous experience of working with people who have a sensory impairment, autism or learning disability would be an advantage, as would knowledge of BSL, Makaton or other methods of communication however, training will be provided.
- It is essential that you are able to work effectively as part of a team whilst demonstrating your own initiative. You will have had experience of person centred planning, keeping records up to date and providing personal care.
- Level 2 (or equivalent) in English and Maths is an essential requirement for this role.

**About Sense**

For everyone living with complex disabilities. For everyone who is deafblind. Sense is here to help people communicate and experience the world. We believe that no one, no matter how complex their disabilities, should be isolated, left out, or unable to fulfil their potential.

Work at Sense can be demanding and so isn’t for everyone, but it is also incredibly rewarding and valuable. Take a look at the video below to see why we do what we do.

**To apply**

No agency submissions please: any submissions without prior authorisation from the Sense Recruitment Team will be treated as our own and as such no fee will be payable.


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