Learning Support Assistant

A leading educational establishment has an opening for you to utilise your supportive skills and empathetic nature, in a role that makes a difference to people’s lives!

Support young adults with learning opportunities to enable them to make the most of their potential whilst developing your own skills and experiences.

As a Learning Support Assistant, you will be:

• Enabling and encouraging student integration within peer groups
  
• Building working relationships with subject tutors and helping with the development and preparation of learning materials, tasks, assignments and assessments whilst recording of learners’ progress
  
• Supporting learners during activities and reinforcing tutor instructions and providing constructive feedback to learners in relation to targets
  
• Attending relevant meetings with subject tutors and support teams
  
• Providing mobility assistance to students as and when required and accompanying students as and when required
  
• Any other duties reasonably requested by the Director or Manager
  

We are keen to speak to you if you have:

• Previous experience in a similar support based role
  
• Relevant qualifications also in numeracy and literacy 
  
• Experience working with a diverse range of learners and staff including whose behaviour at time may be challenging
  
• An ability to show empathy and understanding of the challenges faced by young people post 16
  
• Excellent IT, Communication and Inter-personal skills
  
• A current enhanced DBS certificate
  

There are 2 part time openings for this particular organisation which is based in Rhyl including:

- 19.5 hours per week (Currently Monday, Wednesday, Thursday - but days may change)

- 17 hours per week (Currently Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - but days may change)

These roles are both temporary fixed term until Dec 2023 initially and then reviewed which could be until June 2024.

You'll be starting on an hourly pay rate of £10.90 per hour, plus holiday pay and other benefits.

Please note, this role is subject to DBS certificate being completed.

If you have a passion for people and thrive in a customer focused role, then we would love to speak to you today!