At a Glance
- Tasks: Support students with disabilities and mental health conditions at City of Glasgow College.
- Company: Clear Links Support, a Disability Confident Leader committed to inclusivity.
- Benefits: Earn £28 per hour plus holiday pay, with flexible hours and CPD opportunities.
- Other info: Join a dedicated team with a focus on safety and wellbeing.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in students' lives while developing your mentoring skills.
- Qualifications: Degree required, plus relevant professional membership and experience supporting individuals with disabilities.
The predicted salary is between 28 - 28 £ per hour.
Overview
Clear Links Support is recruiting for One-to-One Specialist Mentors to support students with disabilities and mental health conditions studying at City of Glasgow College.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategies to help students manage the impact of their condition or impairment on their academic experience.
- Help students manage anxiety, develop concentration, time management, prioritise workloads, and create schedules for work-life balance.
- Develop skills in acquiring, recalling, and retaining information in written and spoken language, and in memory, organisation, attention, and numeracy.
- Pay and Benefits
- Pay: £28 per hour plus £3.38 holiday pay per hour.
- Flexible working hours to suit availability.
- Competitive hourly pay rate, plus holiday pay per hour (£3.38).
- Continuous Professional Development allowance and free CPD accredited online training on relevant topics.
- Workplace pension scheme.
- A dedicated team of office staff and a single point of contact for role support.
- Role requirements
- Applicants must have: a degree
AND one of the following
- Membership of a relevant professional body such as BACP, NCPS, HCPC, BPS, UKCP, COSCA, UMHAN (not exhaustive; please contact us if you have questions about relevant membership).
- A relevant postgraduate qualification
- Professional experience supporting individuals with disabilities
- It is desirable that applicants have experience in a similar role within the last five years.
Applicants should also have an understanding of the impact of disabilities in the further/higher education context.
- Applicants must be available to provide in-person support at City of Glasgow College.
- Applicants must be able to work in a way that promotes the safety and wellbeing of children and young people.
- By the start of employment, the successful candidate must have permission to work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996.
This post is also subject to satisfactory references, a background check under the PVG Scheme, as well as other applicable pre-employment checks.
Other information
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader and are positive about the employment of disabled people.
Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised vacancy will be contacted to discuss their application further.
- If you may need reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please indicate this on the application form.
We will contact you to find out how we can best support you if your application is progressed.
- If you require this job advert or the application form in a different format, please contact supportallocation@clear-links. co. uk.
- We aim to process applications within 7 working days but during busy periods this may take longer.
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