Call/email Ellie or Alisdair at Integritas for a full job description and an application form
Location: Minehead, Somerset
Salary: £13,532.60 - £14,756.08
Hours: 24 Hours per week - Term time plus additional days and training (42 weeks per year)
Successful candidate qualities:
Experience in a similar role desirable but training can be provided for the right candidate
Experience in supporting in the care or education industry
Desirable an understanding of working with people with a disability
Level 2 in English and Maths
Desirable Level 3 qualification in education or care
Benefits:
Full training and continued support
Opportunity to gain qualifications, which will be funded by us!
10% off accommodation, hot drinks and food
Life assurance and pension
Health cash back plan
Car lease scheme
Bike to work scheme
Perk box
Free parking
This a specialist college and training hotel for young people with learning disabilities, situated in the friendly seaside town of Minehead. They believe in changing lives and giving our students the skills, knowledge, and confidence to successfully shape their own future. Their aim is to equip their young adults with the life and hospitality skills to become work ready, life ready.
The main purpose of the role:
Key Duties:
As an LSP we expect you to have high expectations of all students, and to constantly challenge and stretch each student at every opportunity.
As an LSP we expect you at all times, and under the guidance of the House Team Leaders/Tutors, to support the students in their learning, enabling them to reach their full potential.
We expect all LSPs to professionally and effectively support with managing student behaviour, seeking further advice and guidance where appropriate.
Work professionally and collaboratively with the session tutor to develop a positive, constructive and proactive relationship that benefits the students and contributes significantly to their success within each session and over the duration of the course.
Use strategies to promote students’ wider skills development, such as in communication, self-advocacy, presentation skills and team work.
Work professionally 1:1 with students as directed by House Team Leaders and other LSP’s, monitoring their personal management and independent skills.
The role does require all successful candidates to be able to work a mixture of shifts, 7am-3pm, 2pm-10pm and 10am-6pm on a 2 week rota pattern.
As a Learning Support Practitioners your role will be to assist our students in our residential houses, to help achieve our mission, which is to equip young adults with learning disabilities to find sustainable employment in the hospitality sector and to live independently.
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and we are therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
Integritas Education Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment business for this position.
As a result of the volume of applications, If we have not contacted you within two weeks of your application being received, then regretfully your application will not be taken forward on this occasion.
