Freelance Study Support Tutor

3 weeks ago


Plymouth, United Kingdom dBs Music Full time

Job Advert

**Study Support Tutor (AS & SpLD) and Autism Mentor**

**dBs Institute Plymouth**

**£35 per hour**

**Freelance, up to 3 hours per week**

We are looking for a keen and dynamic new member of the team to provide Disabled Students Allowances Non-Medical Help (NMH) Specialist One-to-One Study Skills (AS) and Specialist Mentoring (AS).

**About The Role**

You will develop and assess the effectiveness of strategies that enable the participation of students in their studies and university experience and management of their individual difficulties. These difficulties may have been identified already but they may only become evident when a student faces the academic challenges of HE work.

Your support should aim to develop students’ skills for autonomy in the learning environment. It should be tailored to a student’s individual needs and you will use your professionalism and experience to deliver support where clear goals and timescales are of paramount importance.

Specialist mentoring (AS)

You will provide highly specialist, specifically tailored, one-to-one support which helps students address the barriers to learning created by a particular impairment, in this case, autistic spectrum disorder. This could include a range of issues, for example, coping with anxiety and stress situations, how to deal with concentration difficulties, time management, prioritising workload and creating a suitable work-life balance.

You should not act as advocates or counsellors. Your role is to help students recognise the barriers to learning created by their impairment and support them in developing strategies to address these barriers, particularly at times of transition, e.g. when starting at university

or when planning to move on from it. For some students, this support will need to be ongoing while for others it might be gradually phased out or only be required at certain points of their course.

The role is freelance and hours will be dictated by student needs. This role could work alongside a similar role elsewhere that an applicant may already be working in.

**About you**

Essential experience:

- Experienced and qualified as a DSA-funded Non-Medical Helper for Specific Learning Difficulties (SS-SpLD), Autistic Spectrum Condition Mentor and Autism Study Skills (SM-ASC and SS-ASC) (DSA mandatory criteria 2023, Pages 9-12)
- Planning, implementing and monitoring the efficacy of sessions for individualised learning needs
- Confident in providing the pastoral care that comes with the above roles
- Working with assistive tech to assist with learning
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent administration and record-keeping skills
- Highly proactive
- Able to advocate for students clearly and confidently
- Knowledge of how and when to signpost to others
- Good working knowledge of adult and child safeguarding
- GDPR aware

Desirable experience:

- The teaching of group study skills in HE
- Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience working with students on creative courses

Applications are to reach us by **Thursday 14th February 2024.



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