As one of the fastest-growing Colleges in the UK, delivering courses from entry level right up to Masters degrees, Weston College is an inspiring place to work. Why not join us as an Specialist Practitioner - Foundation Learning - Work Experience and Supported Employment?
This is a full-time post, working 37 hours per week.
Day to day of the role
- Playing an active role in the marketing and promotion of the Specialist Provision within Foundation Learning, with particular emphasis on liaison with external partners, employers, and other key agencies.
- Establishing and developing strong relationships with employers, and having a clear commitment to ensuring progress is robustly monitored.
- Developing new placement opportunities and ensuring that communication with employers is timely, effective, and contributes to high employer satisfaction.
- Carrying out a wide range of initial, formative and summative assessments to establish support needs and starting points, which are clearly mapped and track progress through vocational profiling.
equired skills and qualifications
- Relevant successful SEND experience.
- Evidence of previous success in gaining employment outcomes with learners with SEND.
- Knowledge and understanding of learning difficulties and disabilities and how these may affect the way students learn.
- Skills in the development and implementation of individual learning programmes.
Benefits
- Generous holiday entitlement
- 2-week Christmas closure
- Potential for hybrid working opportunities
- Dedicated staff welfare officer and wellbeing champions
- Generous pension scheme
- Local and national staff discounts
- Free parking across sites
- Various staff committees including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Autism and Menopause
- Focus on staff wellbeing
- Wellbeing@weston hub
- Eye care including free eye test and a contribution towards glasses
- Annual staff conference with guest speakers
- Employee assistance programme - available 24/7, 365 days a year
- Training and development opportunities with a focus on progression
W eston College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment
Please be aware that Weston College reserves the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.
Due to the volume of recruitment, we are unable to offer feedback to any unsuccessful candidates.
We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received