Communication Learning Support Practitioner

3 weeks ago


Canterbury, United Kingdom EKC Group Full time

**About The Role**:
**30 hours per week, 38 weeks during term time**
**and the salary will be £14,278.28 pro-rata**

**Payment for 6.6 weeks pro rata, £2,479.01 will be paid equally in your twelve-monthly salary payments**
**in addition**
**to the advertised pro rata salary**

**Do you have British Sign**
**Language skills that you would like to put to good use? Do you want to work in an education setting assisting our deaf students? This could be the role for you.....**

EKC Group are seeking a Communication Support Practitioner to join Canterbury College. As a Communication Support Practitioner your role will be provide British Sign Language signing and learning support to students on programmes of study and/or courses.

In your role as a Communication Support Practitioner you will use a range of support strategies to select and adapt tasks, resources and learning activities, to encourage and motivate students working in conjunction with ALS tutors and to undertake with teaching staff EHCP In-Year Reviews for students with hearing impairment and attend/support communication in Annual Reviews.

Working as a Communication Support Practitioner at EKC Group is an extremely rewarding role with excellent benefits
- Genuine rewarding role
- Competitive holiday entitlement
- Store, retail and gym discounts
- On-site gym
- Cycle to work scheme
- Opportunity to progress, train and develop - we have a fantastic teaching programme
- Generous pension scheme
- Laptop/tablet provided to every staff member

If you are interested in the role and being at home for the school holidays, no weekend work and no night shifts we want to hear from you.

**About You**:
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic person to provide BSL signing support to individuals and/or groups of learners with a hearing impairment, who are attending mainstream courses.

You will be an enthusiastic, motivated and imaginative signer who is qualified to mínimal level 3 British Sign language and who will nurture positive attitudes to learning resulting in the best outcomes for our students. You will have an excellent understanding of the role and impact of additional learning support and will make a significant contribution to the development of teaching and learning at EKC Group.

The role may also include personal care, assisting with mobility and specific medical/feeding needs. Whildt rxperience in working with the above needs would be an advantage it is not essential and full training will be given.

Simply click ‘apply’ and we’ll let you know about an interview date.

Please contact the Resourcing Team at

**About Us**:
East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our ‘Strong’ skills grading by Ofsted.

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