Learning Support Assistant (ALS) in Aldershot

We are currently looking for a dedicated and well-motivated Learning Support Assistant to join our Learning Support team. The role will involve working with learners across the College who have a variety of education requirements and have an Education, Health and Care Plan in place. The role will include working directly with tutors and the Learning Support Teams, to ensure that we meet the support needs of learners, through support in and out of class and workshop situations. Willingness to assist with personal care of learners is required.

Successful applicants will:

• Develop a relationship and understanding of learners and provide support to ensure a safe learning environment.
• Ensure that any support given is provided at the appropriate level.
• Report on the success, progress and achievement of learners and report any concerns to course tutors.
• Support to engage individuals and groups of learners with their learning.
• Work with tutors to promote and reinforce students' self-esteem, appropriate learning behaviour and levels of effort.
• Contribute to the maintenance of learners’ support records.

Experience of having worked with young people is essential, ideally with those who have SEN. Applicants should have excellent communication skills, good IT skills and a good general education including Maths and English GCSE.

This is a superb opportunity for a first-class applicant to work in a highly respected and top-performing college. In turn, we can offer you interesting and varied work with an excellent benefits package. Benefits include: LGPS Pension, Employee Assistance Programme including Savings Centre offering retail discounts, Canteen and free on-site parking.

Farnborough College of Technology is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Interviews will take place shortly after the published closing date or when a suitable number of appropriate applications have been received, so early submissions are encouraged. Suitable candidates may be interviewed before the closing date and we reserve the right to withdraw the position if an early appointment is made.

The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Positions within the College will involve contact with young people and vulnerable adults. Consequently, post-holders will be obliged to demonstrate and maintain their suitability to work with young people and vulnerable adults. This will include a requirement to undertake an enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check, in addition to referencing and qualification checks.

Farnborough College of Technology complies fully with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Code of Practice regarding the correct handling, storage, retention and disposal of Disclosures and Disclosure information, and undertakes not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a disclosure on the basis of a conviction or other information revealed.

Since the post for which you are applying may involve unsupervised access to children and vulnerable adults, it will be exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exemptions Amendment Order 1986). Candidates who are offered an interview for such posts will be required to disclose details, cautions (including final warnings or reprimands), or convictions which are not "protected" as defined by the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013 and 2020), or any other matters that may be relevant to their suitability to work for the College. The College will regard any failure to disclose your criminal record as a breach of trust. It is College Policy that all candidates will be subject to a Disclosure check if offered the post for which the application has been made. Please note that the College is unable to consider an application further if the candidate declines to complete the Disclosure form.