Complex Care Learning Support Practitioner

**About The Role**:
**East Kent Colleges Group - Complex Care Learning Support Practitioner**

**Location**: EKC Canterbury College

East Kent Colleges Group is seeking a **Complex Care Learning Support Practitioner** to join our team at EKC Canterbury College. This role offers the opportunity to support students with **complex health care needs** and **learning support requirements** as they work towards various qualifications

As a **Complex Care Learning Support Practitioner**, you will:

- Support students in **Entry Level 1 to Level 2 programmes**, including Functional Skills and GCSE English and Maths.
- Provide **1:1 and small-group support** in a classroom, workshop, or community setting.
- Work closely with staff and other professionals to ensure students' welfare and progress.

Key Details
- **Hours per week**: 35
- **Weeks per year**: 38
- **Salary**: £17,756
- **Holiday payment**: £2,573

What We Are Looking For
- Experience in supporting individuals with **complex health care needs**.
- A compassionate, patient, and **student-focused approach**.
- Strong **teamwork and communication skills**.

Alongside our priority of excellent student experience, we also focus on our employees. Here are just some of our benefits when working for the East Kent Colleges Group**:

- Competitive salary and holiday entitlement
- Access to 100's of online discounts via our Rewards Scheme (Inc. Restaurant, Grocery, Retail, Gym, Holidays)
- Access to cycle to work, car leasing and tech purchasing schemes
- Generous pension scheme - 18% employer contribution
- Being part of a company with a Eco-Sustainability focus of being Net-Zero
- Time off for your child's first day at school, moving home and for interviews
- My 10 Days initiative - bid for up-to 10 days off work to pursue voluntary work
- Being part of Community Days and Annual Staff Celebration Day

**About You**:
We are seeking to appoint a **highly motivated and enthusiastic** **Complex Care Learning Support Practitioner** to support our students with **Profound Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD)**.

**What We’re Looking For**:

- A **passion for supporting students** with complex and high-level needs.
- Experience working with individuals with **PMLD**, including:

- **Global Development Delay**
- **Epilepsy**
- **Cerebral Palsy**
- **Rare Diseases**
- **Sensory Impairments**

**Key Skills & Qualities**:

- Strong **communication skills** to effectively engage with students and staff.
- An understanding of **behaviour management** strategies.
- A passion for **inspiring students** to be active in their learning.
- The ability to **work well under pressure** in a dynamic environment.
- A background in **special education needs (SEN)** is **desirable** but not essential.

**About Us**:
**Outstanding Ofsted Provider**

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.

**Commitment to Safeguarding**

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles.

As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults. These checks include conviction/caution self-declaration, Enhanced DBS check and obtaining sufficient referencing.

If you are successful in being shortlisted to interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.

**Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion**

We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.