Hours: Term Time Only, Part Time and Full Time Available
40 hours per week - £30,825.60 - £32,926.40 dependant on experience and qualifications
24 hours per week - £18,495.36 - £19,755.84 dependant on experience and qualifications.
Cambian Dilston College
Cambian Dilston College is a very special place. We offer specialist post-16 educational pathways to special school leavers who are Preparing for Adulthood and hold a current Education Health and Care Plan. Each young person attends college as a residential or day student, and follows a range of technical and vocational pathways to underpin their accredited and non-accredited learning outcomes.
YP have a personalised timetable and alongside working on qualifications they are able to access the rural 9-acre college site to run enterprise activities including an onsite café and working bakery and follow Forest School, animal care and horticulture land-based learning activities.
This role plans and delivers learning and assessment to small groups and individuals. Learning is scaffolded and logically sequenced to support progress and embed prior learning, allowing personal progress to be acknowledged and recorded routinely. The tutor works closely within a larger teaching team, with teaching assistants and health and social care professionals as well as positive behaviour, nursing and therapy colleagues. We are trauma and therapy informed and use an individual’s starting points as a baseline for progress.
Responsibilities
* Plan allocated sessions and prepare session plans that support each individual YP.
* Personalise and tailor learning using EHCPs to agree session targets.
* Work in partnership with a multi-disciplinary team to ensure a seamless learning and life experience and that learning opportunities extend into living for residential students.
* Devise Individual Learning Plans (ILPs) linked to student EHCPs and attend review meetings to share progress and revise plans.
* Comply with expectations of quality standards for both accredited and non-accredited learning outcomes.
Person Specification
* PGCE, CertEd or qualified by experience. QTS/QTLS Preferred.
* Technical and vocational qualifications at Level 3 or above.
* Experience of teaching in early years, primary or post-16 education.
* An interest in delivering independent living skills, Duke of Edinburgh/Outdoor Adventure Education and Relationships and Sex Education (RSE).
* Good written and verbal communication skills.
* Calm under pressure.
* Professional attitude and appearance.
* Empathy and understanding of young people who live with special educational needs and disabilities.
* Experience of working with young people with additional needs.
* Good organisational skills.
Benefits
* Health benefits, including dental and optical cashback after 2 years.
* Support: 24/7 helpline and hardship grants through the CareTech Foundation.
We pride ourselves on being an Equal Opportunities Employer. And we are committed to safeguarding and protecting the young people and service users within our care. All candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and reference checks.
Cambian will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the search and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.