Portage Practitioner

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Portage is a Pre-School Educational Service offering Pre-School Learning Groups and Home Learning Sessions for families with very young children (0-5 yrs.) who have additional support needs and disabilities.

We are looking to recruit a Portage Practitioner 21 hours a week pro-rata (FT Equivalent 37 hours) to work across West Kent, covering Maidstone Tonbridge and Malling, based at Oxford Road with some home-based working.

This is an exciting opportunity to play an active and central role in supporting children’s development through the Portage Home learning sessions and the 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

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.

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.

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