**Key facts**:

- **Term-time, permanent**:

- 37 hours per week, 42 weeks per year_
- ** Salary**
£22,383, depending upon working hours, qualifications and experience
- ** Closing date**:

- Sunday 14th April 2024_

Are you experienced in Learner Support and looking for a new challenge? Have you always wanted to live and work within an area of natural beauty and vibrant culture?

**Summary of responsibilities**:

- To provide high-quality learning support for students in our KC Sixth provision. Working with the KC Sixth team to promote our high-grade strategy to the learners and encourage students to reach their potential.
- To support the department without tutorial and study support programme
- Work cooperatively with study services staff and faculty to continuously develop and improve support for learners.
- Monitor attendance in collaboration with A-Level tutors to maintain the attendance for the students and department.
- To complement the professional work of teachers by taking responsibility for agreed learning activities under an agreed system of supervision, supported by direction from teaching staff and in line with college policies.
- Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
- To support the overall student experience through engaging with external stakeholders and A-Level staff.
- See the Job Description for full details._
- Job Description (37.719 KB)

**Why choose us?**:
Set within the Lake District's breathtaking UNESCO World Heritage site, Kendal College is an FE college that consistently punches above its weight on the national stage. Under the leadership of our new Principal, the college is embarking on a series of bold steps to grow the college and remain a top-notch education provider for Cumbria and the North West region. Our students focus on their learning, achieve high levels of attainment and consistently give us high satisfaction ratings. The college recognises the wellbeing of its staff as a priority, as well as ensuring that excellent work is appropriately identified and that a healthy work-life balance is maintained.

**What we offer**:

- A generous holiday entitlement
- Seven efficiency days per year (pro rata) in addition to your hard-earned holiday allocation
- Sick pay and pension scheme
- Support to help you transition into college life
- Excellent CPD opportunities so you can gain a formal teaching qualification whilst working with us and continue to grow and develop
- A college that promotes and supports flexible working
- Fantastic facilities and resources to support our students
- On-site canteens with locally sourced ingredients
- A cycle-to-work and electric car scheme
- A comprehensive staff awards, rewards and wellbeing scheme, including:

- Employee assistance program with Health Assured
- Discounted gym membership
- Local discounts
- Extensive retail discounts

**What we're looking for**:
**Qualifications***:
**Essential**

**Desirable**
Educated to degree-level
Teaching qualification
Full range of GCSEs, including English, Maths, Science and Humanities/Social Science
Vocational qualification relevant to the specific faculty
IT qualification or proven competence
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**Experience**:
**Essential**

**Desirable**
Experience of working with 16+ year old learners
Experience of A level study or working with A-Level learners
Experience of supporting and challenging learners in order to enable them to meet targets
Experience of provision of one-to-one and group support/delivery

**Knowledge & Skills**:
**Essential**

**Desirable**
Ability to develop and maintain effective relationships with learners that promote learning
-Ability to communicate effectively with learners and demonstrate awareness of ways to structure and present information and ideas clearly and effectively to support learning
Ability to document and support learner progress effectively
Demonstrate an understanding of the implications for learning of the most common additional support needs
Ability to deal appropriately with challenging behaviour
Capacity to work reliably as a team member and to work flexibly according to the needs of learners and the faculty
Ability to demonstrate a calm, patient disposition and be comfortable with pastoral support where necessary

**Right to work**:
**Safeguarding statement**: