Interim Housing & Support Recruitment Solutions
Learning Support Assistant
A prestigious college in Wiltshire is seeking an experienced support candidate to work with students with various learning disabilities in a classroom environment.
Location: Wiltshire
Contract duration: 2 Months +
Hours: Full time Mon – Fri 8am – 5pm
Hourly rate: £13 - £14 per hour
Vacancy ref number: 7120640
Day to day responsibilities include:
- Support students in a classroom using a range of learning support strategies
- Working with student’s individual needs and preferences, select and adapt tasks and learning activities to engage and motivate students
- Use support strategies for working with groups or with individual students to maximise learning opportunities
- Support the development of student’s language, literacy and numeracy skills
- Provide encouragement, constructive feedback and appropriate praise for students
- Enable students to achieve the most out of their lessons and encouraging them to meet course or organisational requirements including punctuality, attendance and behaviour
- Identify students who need specific support or further assessments
- Maintain and record all notes of student’s progression
- Attend regular meetings with staff and discuss with staff plans to effectively support students in lessons
Essential criteria include:
- Current enhanced DBS (within the past 12 months)
- Have a knowledge and understanding of promoting and safeguarding children and young people
- Experience of providing support to vulnerable people with mental health or learning disabilities
To apply for this role or to find out about other Housing jobs, please contact Branwen Johns or Ellen McGill from the Bristol Housing recruitment team on 01179 308760 or bjohns@venngroup.com
Venn Group is an equal opportunities employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.