Job Coach - Brockley, London

In this extremely rewarding role, you will work under the direction and supervision of managers and teaching staff to provide high quality and appropriately targeted support to learners with learning difficulties and/or physical disabilities. This in turn will facilitate their independence, personal care needs, access to learning and integration into the College community. To help you achieve this, you will be working as part of a hardworking, passionate and supportive team that is committed to getting the best out of our learners.

While you will work predominantly within the Supported Learning area led by the LSW Team Leader and managed by the Head of Department, you will also be required to work with a number of learner groups across the Department., 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.

The successful candidate will have sound literacy and numeracy skills (Level 2 achievement/ability in English and maths), competent IT skills and be willing to undertake regular CPD. Experience of working with and supporting special needs learners within an educational context and a proven ability of building good relationships with teaching staff are essential., Disability Confident
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Lewisham College, part of Newcastle College Group (a leading national provider of education and training, is looking to recruit Learning Support Workers (LSWs) to work with both individual and small groups of learners to support their access to the curriculum. The learners that you will be working with may have mild or complex learning difficulties or disabilities and will be from a wide range of ages; 14 years to adults., Lewisham College is a large further education college in London and we're proud of our reputation for producing knowledgeable, successful students with great employment potential. We offer an exciting range of work-focused courses, and provide a friendly, supportive learning environment where talent is nurtured.

We have achieved excellent results in recent years, but we know that we can only continue our success, and grow, by recruiting and retaining the best possible talent. We set out to employ staff with a genuine passion for further education and a commitment to ensuring all students achieve their potential, whatever barriers they need to overcome. Our people make a real difference not only to the lives of students, but also to local employers and the wider Lewisham community.

Every colleague has a valuable and important part to play here at Lewisham College and all of our employees are well-supported. We offer a wide range of staff development programmes, benefits and support all designed to enable our people to continually improve and reward them for their hard work and dedication. If you have a passion for education and its power to improve lives, and want to inspire young people and adults, we'd love to welcome you to our team.

Lewisham 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 Lewisham 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, Lewisham 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.