Job Coach (SEND)
The Vacancy
Southwark College, part of NCG, is looking for a dedicated, creative, and enthusiastic Job Coach to work with students from our Supported Learning Department.
In this extremely rewarding role, you will work with the Head of Faculty and Lecturers to support students with SEND in workplace settings and facilitate their learning, independence, success, progress, and progression from college into employment.
Your role will be to proactively and professionally support employers to set up, develop and maintain appropriate placements and work opportunities for young people with support needs and help them in making reasonable adaptions.
You will work closely with support and curriculum colleagues, parents/carers, and outside professionals to ensure that students receive the best support possible and achieve the highest outcomes.
You will take responsibility for ensuring that appropriate health and safety, safeguarding and recording and monitoring processes are in carried out and implemented.
The post requires candidates with an interest in working with students identified as having a special educational need and disability. Ideally suitable for a TA or, HTL with pastoral responsibilities who is looking to further develop their career in education.
The learners you will be working with may have mild, moderate, or more complex learning difficulties or disabilities and will be from a wide range of ages and backgrounds. Learners may have autism, communication, sensory, literacy/numeracy, social emotional, physical, or other learning needs.
To help achieve this, the successful candidate will be working as part of a hardworking, passionate, and supportive team that is committed to providing high quality provision and support and getting the best out of our learners.
The role will be based in the Supported Learning Department at Southwark College and will be managed by the Head of Faculty for Supported Learning.
This is a full-time, term-time only role, (40 weeks per year)
About Southwark College
Southwark College is a large further education college in London, offering an exciting range of work-focused courses that give our students the skills and experience they need to develop their employment potential. We provide a friendly, supportive learning environment where talent is nurtured.
We’re proud of our success in achieving excellent results and producing knowledgeable and successful students, but we’re built on our staff and our success is down to recruiting and retaining the best possible talent. Helping our young people and adults to fulfil their potential and often transform their lives through education requires dedication, patience and the ability to think differently. That’s why we set out to recruit staff with a genuine passion for further education and a commitment to ensuring all students achieve their potential, whatever barriers they need to overcome.
We’d love you to join the team if you want to make a real difference to the lives of students, local employers and the wider Southwark community. In return, we’ll provide you with a range of development opportunities, benefits and support to help you fulfil your role.
Southwark College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff to share this commitment.
At Southwark College, our values are not just about what we do, but also about how we do things.
Our values underpin the culture and beliefs of our organisation, we expect all our staff to demonstrate behaviours in line with our core values.
1. Being both inclusive and diverse
2. Trusting and respecting our communities
3. Taking ownership whilst working collaboratively
4. Inspiring excellence and curiosity.
As part of the NCG Group, Southwark College offers an excellent benefits package, including generous holiday entitlement, access to the Teachers’ pension scheme (for teaching posts) or Local Government pension scheme (non-teaching posts), company sick pay, a cycle to work scheme and much more.
NCG seeks to promote and maintain an equal, diverse, inclusive and supportive environment for work and study that assists all members of our communities to reach their full potential. We are committed to achieving a truly representative workforce and therefore welcome applications from across the national and regional communities that we work with and serve.
To view Job Description, Person Specification and NCG Values Pack please click the document attachment at the bottom of this advert. No agency applications will be accepted.
NCG reserve the right to close the vacancy early.
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Telephone: 0191 226 6390
Email: NCGRecruitment@ncgrp.co.uk