Specialist Mentor - Learning Support (Mental Health Difficulties and/or Autistic Spectrum Cond[...]

Specialist Mentor – Learning Support (Mental Health Difficulties and/or Autistic Spectrum Conditions)

Specialist Mentor – Learning Support (Mental Health Difficulties and/or Autistic Spectrum Conditions)

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The Role:

To meet the increasing demand for our first class support we are expanding our team of specialist support consultants.

The Amano approach gives:

• Student focussed support.
• Academic support towards goals and aspirations
• Hassle-free arrangements
• Student choice and empowerment
• Flexibility in delivery
• Adaptable support for changing needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide effective support to students in a higher education setting
• Work with individuals who may face barriers to learning due to a variety of mental health and/or autistic spectrum conditions
• Work with your student to identify strategies to help address barriers and to move towards independent learning
• Provide support that is student specific and could include activities such as time management, planning, coping with anxiety and stress situations and prioritising workload
• Work to enhance your student’s autonomy and to monitor the effectiveness of strategies
• Be responsible for organising sessions with your assigned students
• Offer support on campus, in-home, or remotely as agreed with your student
• Be required to complete Amano administration promptly and accurately
• Follow Amano safeguarding, health and safety, lone working, and professional and personal boundaries policies

Follow Amano safeguarding, health and safety, lone working, and professional and personal boundaries policies.

Essential Skills and Experience for Specialist Mentor (ASD)

You will be educated to degree level AND hold a teaching qualification, AND you must have comprehensive training in supporting adults with autism which must include:

All 5 National Autistic Society (NAS) core autism online training modules (Understanding autism; autism and communication; autism, stress and anxiety; autism: supporting families) OR

Have attended and completed a NAS tutor-led course:

‘Introduction to autism and the SPELL framework in Higher Education’ OR

Holding a Post-Graduate Certificate in Autism/PG Certificate in Asperger’s AND a teaching qualification (minimum level 4).

Essential Skills and Experience for Learning Support (Mental Health)

• Have experience of working with students with disabilities and/or people with mental health or ASC related difficulties
• Be able to assess a student’s needs and with them establish an appropriate Individual Support Plan
• Understand the needs, objectives, and constraints of others.
• Have an understanding of the particular demands of study in higher education
• Be able to clearly assess when a referral or ‘signpost’ to another service is required
• Have the ability to plan, prioritise and organise your own workload
• Have excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• Have good competency in using mobile IT
• Be proactive in maintaining your CPD.

Mandatory Qualifications for Learning Support (Mental Health)

You will be educated to degree level and must have membership of (at least) one of the following organisations at the required level:

• Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) – Full member.
• The British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) – Accredited membership.
• The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
• Registered Member (MBACP)
• Accredited Member (MBACP – Accred)
• British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) – Under a member institution – Practitioners become registrants of the BPC through their membership of one of their member institutions. They do not have a category for individual membership.
• British Psychological Society (BPS) – Chartered Member (CPsychol)/IAPT register/ Graduate Member (MBPsS) AND a PG qualification in Psychology or Mental Health.
• Counselling & Psychotherapy in Scotland (COSCA) – Accredited (Other UK Professional body) Counsellor/Psychotherapist Member of COSCA This category of membership requires you to be currently accredited with another recognised UK professional body for counselling and psychotherapy
• Federation of Drug and Alcohol Practitioners (FDAP) – National Counsellor Accreditation Certificate (NCAC)
• General Medical Council (GMC) – Psychiatry – Full member or above.
• Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) – Education and training programmes approved as a route to registration – Arts Therapist/ Occupational Therapist/ Practitioner Psychologist/ Social Worker in England
• Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP) – Accredited member
• National Counselling Society (NCS) –
• Accredited Registrants (MNCS Accred).
• Accredited Professional Registrant (MNCS Prof Accred).
• NCS Fellowship (FNCS).
• Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) – Mental Health Nurse/ Community Mental Health Nurse / Psychiatric Nurse
• Social Care Wales (SCW)
• Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NISCC)
• UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) – Full clinical individual member
• The University Mental Health Advisers Network (UMHAN) – UMHAN mentor member. (N.B. UMHAN accreditation routes are now closed).
• Association of Christian Counsellors (UK) – Accredited Counsellor

Should you require any adjustments to support you in your application please contact us at AmanoRecruitment@amanotech.com.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Education and Other

• Industries

  Higher Education and Professional Training and Coaching

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