Portage Practitioner

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**We are recruiting three Portage Practitioners Full Time: 37 hours a week**.

Kent Portage Service supports pre-school children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. Delivering Pre-School Learning Groups and Home Learning Sessions for children 0-5 and their families. Offering a blend of virtual and face to face sessions working from home and within KCC bases.

We are looking to recruit three FT Portage Practitioners, one to work across Ashford, Canterbury and surrounding areas based at the Rainbow Centre, another to cover Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge, and Sevenoaks, based at the Dolphin Centre in Tunbridge Wells, and the third to cover Dartford, Gravesend and Swanley, based at Darent Valley Hospital.

This is an exciting opportunity to play an active and central role in supporting children’s development through face to face and virtual Portage Home learning sessions and Portage Pre-School Learning Groups.

The core elements of the role include.
- Developing play activities based on the child’s level and interests.
- working in partnership with families and other agencies.
- Using the small steps approach to plan learning experiences.
- Working closely with other professionals to support the transitions.
- Delivering Pre-School Learning Groups and Home Learning Sessions.
- Delivering sessions virtually using MS teams.

You will need to demonstrate experience of working with very young children with additional needs and their families and evidence how you can respond and extend play opportunities based around the child’s development.

In addition, good interpersonal, organisation, IT and communication skills are essential, these roles are coordinated and supported by the Portage Officers.

The ability to travel across a wide geographical area in a timely and flexible manner at various times of the day is essential with a range of heavy and/or bulky equipment. The role requires you to be mobile throughout a wide operational area around the county of Kent to ensure attendance at disparate meeting locations that are not readily serviced by the public transport system.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Contact Details
- For further information regarding this role, please contact :_
- Tracy Harvey, Portage County Manager:_

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