Specialist One to One Study Skills Support Tutor

**PLEASE NOTE ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS FOR THIS ROLE**:
You will be educated to degree level and must have current professional membership of one of the following organisations:

- PATOSS (full or associate membership)
- BDA (full professional membership)
- ADSHE (professional membership)
- Dyslexia Guild (member, associate or fellow membership)

**The Role**:
As an Amano Study Skills Consultant (SpLD) you will:

- Provide effective support to students in a higher education setting
- Work with individuals who may face barriers to learning due to a variety of mental health conditions
- Address the issues which some students might have in acquiring, recalling and retaining information in written and spoken language
- Address issues associated with memory, organisational, attention and numeracy difficulties
- Work with your student to identify strategies to help address barriers
- Provide support that is student specific and could include activities such as study strategies, time management, structuring reports and essays, proof-reading techniques, and research strategies
- Work to enhance your student’s skills and to develop independent learning
- Be responsible for organising sessions with your assigned students
- 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 rates of pay
- Comprehensive CPD opportunities
- Paperless working and reduced admin time through the bespoke consultant app and web portal.

**Amano Student Support**:
Amano is a registered Disabled Students' Allowance Non-Medical Help Provider offering academic student support across the UK. For over 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 an Amano Study Skills Consultant (SpLD) you will:

- Have substantial experience of working with students and/or people with specific learning difficulties
- 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, but also have an awareness of student’s strengths
- 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
- Ideally have a good working knowledge of assistive technologies (AT) and related AT study skills strategies
- 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.

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

**Salary**: £32.10 per hour

**Education**:

- Bachelor's (preferred)

**Experience**:

- teaching: 1 year (preferred)
- General Education & Test Preparation Tutors: 1 year (preferred)
- tutoring: 1 year (preferred)

Reference ID: SSK SpLD Ballymena