Specialist Mentor

**The Role**:
As an Amano Mentor (ASC) you will:

- Provide effective support to students in a higher education setting
- Work with individuals who may face barriers to learning due to autistic spectrum characteristics and associated difficulties
- Work with your student to identify strategies to help address barriers
- Provide support that is student specific and could include activities such as time management, planning, coping with anxiety and stress situations, prioritising workload, and creating a suitable work-life balance
- Work to enhance your student’s autonomy, to monitor the effectiveness of strategies, and to help students recognise the barriers to learning created by their impairment
- Be responsible for organising sessions with your assigned students in a flexible needs led way
- Offer support on campus, in-home, or remotely as agreed with your student
- Be required to complete Amano administration promptly and accurately
- Follow Amano safeguarding, health and safety, lone working, and professional and personal boundaries policies.

**Employment status**: Freelance/Self-employed Consultant

**Amano offer you**:

- A rewarding and flexible role
- Face-to-face support from a professional and friendly team
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive CPD
- Innovative, easy-to-use Amano App.

**Amano Student Support**:
Amano is a **DSA-QAG accredited** **and certified** Disabled Students Allowance Non-Medical Help Provider offering academic student support across the UK. For 10 years our reputation has been built on a professional, reliable and friendly approach to student support.

To meet the increasing demand for our first class support we are expanding our team of specialist support consultants.

The Amano approach gives:

- **Student focussed support**:

- Academic support towards **goals and aspirations**:

- **Hassle-free **arrangements
- **Student **choice **and empowerment
- **Flexibility **in delivery
- **Adaptable support **for changing needs

**The Skills Required**:
As a Specialist Mentor (ASC) you will:

- Have extensive experience of working with students with disabilities and people on the autistic spectrum
- Be able to assess a student’s needs and with them establish an appropriate Individual Support Plan
- Understand the needs, objectives, and constraints of others
- Have an understanding of the particular demands of study in higher education
- Be able to clearly assess when a referral or ‘signpost’ to another service is required
- Have the ability to plan, prioritise and organise your own workload
- Have excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
- Have good competency in using mobile IT
- Be proactive in maintaining your CPD.

**Essential Qualifications and Training**:
You will be educated to degree level AND hold a teaching qualification, AND you must have comprehensive training in supporting adults with autism which must include:

- **All 6** National Autistic Society (NAS) core autism online training modules (Understanding autism; autism and communication; autism, stress and anxiety; autism: supporting families, autism: Women & Girls) **AND**:

- Have attended and completed a NAS tutor-led course:

- ‘Understanding Autism’ **or**:

- ‘Introduction to autism and the SPELL framework in Higher Education’ **OR**
- Holding a Post-Graduate Certificate in Autism/PG Certificate in Aspergers AND a teaching qualification (minimum level 4).

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Freelance

**Salary**: £32.10 per hour

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Durham, Durham: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Application question(s):

- Do you meet the mandatory qualifications criteria or are you willing to train to the required level?

**Experience**:

- Special Needs Education Teachers: 1 year (preferred)