SEN Education Mentor in Oxford

Help Create Gloriously Ordinary Lives – and Build an Extraordinary Career. At MacIntyre, we believe everyone deserves the opportunity to live a gloriously ordinary life—filled with choice, independence, relationships, purpose and belonging. If you're looking for a career where you can make a genuine difference while developing your own skills and future, we'd love to hear from you.

As an Education Mentor with MacIntyre No Limits, you'll support young adults with learning disabilities and/or autism to develop the confidence, skills and independence they need for adult life. This is far more than a teaching role – you'll be helping people discover their strengths, overcome barriers and achieve goals that matter to them.

Every day is different. Whether you're supporting someone to travel independently, manage their money, access community facilities, build social connections or work towards employment aspirations, you'll be helping create opportunities that lead to greater independence and fulfilment.

No Experience? No Problem. We recruit for values, passion and potential. If you share our belief that every person should be able to live the life they choose, we'll provide all the training, coaching and support you need to succeed.

All you need is:

• A full UK manual driving licence
• GCSE Grade C/4 (or equivalent) in English and Maths
• A positive attitude and a commitment to supporting others to achieve their goals

At MacIntyre, we're committed to helping our colleagues thrive. From comprehensive induction and ongoing professional development to nationally recognised qualifications and progression opportunities, we'll support you to build a rewarding long-term career. Many of our leaders started in frontline roles. Whether you're taking your first steps into education and support or looking to develop your existing experience, you'll be joining an organisation that invests in people and recognises talent.

This is a term-time position, working 39 weeks per year, Monday to Friday, 9:00am–3:30pm (3, 4 or 5 days a week). You'll work both from our base at Abingdon College and within local communities, delivering creative, personalised learning that reflects each student's interests, aspirations and goals. We support young people aged 16–25 with a range of additional needs, including autism, ADHD and communication differences. By building strong, trusting relationships, you'll help create learning experiences that are meaningful, engaging and centred around what matters most to each individual.

You'll become part of a supportive, ambitious and values-driven team that believes in possibility, not limitation. Together, we celebrate achievements, champion individuality and support young people to build the skills, confidence and independence they need for the future. If you're looking for a role where you can see the impact of your work every day, while developing a rewarding career of your own, we'd love to hear from you.

Please note that we are currently unable to offer sponsorships while we await further guidance from the Home Office. Applications requiring sponsorship cannot be considered at this time. Thank you for your understanding.

If you have not worked in the field of education before then please don't be put off as no experience is needed. We can provide all of the specialist training you need, but we can't train you to be kind, to have initiative, to be friendly and patient; and those are essential qualities for this work.

MacIntyre is a national charity which supports over 1,200 people with a learning disability and/or autism. We were founded in 1966 by the visionary parent of a child with disabilities and have been growing steadily ever since. We celebrate and develop everyone's unique gifts, talents and contributions. Our No Limits division provides bespoke education programmes to children and young people for whom more traditional learning environments may not have worked.

At Macintyre we fully support your training and development. We know it can be daunting to start a new job, and not everyone learns the same way, so throughout your probation we will provide you with a mixture of eLearning, face-to-face training and mentoring support whilst on the job. But it doesn't stop there - throughout your career with us you will have access to our own dedicated in house Learning and Development team, Quality Specialists and HR Teams. These teams, along with your Manager, will provide you with opportunities to learn and develop professionally as well as enabling and supporting you to achieve professional qualifications and career progression opportunities - all free of charge. If you do not have an educational qualification, we will support you to complete the Level 3 Award in Education and Training.

We provide a range of benefits to reward and thank our staff which includes:

• 5.6 weeks' annual leave including statutory public holidays
• Workplace Pension scheme – MacIntyre will contribute 3% of your salary to all eligible employees
• MacIntyre Staff Savings Scheme
• Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) to support your health and wellbeing
• Health Cash Plan which provides money back on core health treatments such as: optical, dental, physiotherapy, chiropody (at reduced cost)
• MacIntyre Sick Pay (qualifying period)
• Life assurance scheme offering valuable benefits to your dependents
• MacIntyre Rewards Scheme which recognises and rewards staff
• MacIntyre Perks which offers up to 6% discount off leading retailers including Tesco, Curry/PC World, Costa and many more
• You will qualify for a Blue Light Card which offers thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street for emergency and social care staff.
• Enhanced DBS Certificate (cost paid by MacIntyre)

The salary range above is dependent upon whether someone has a teaching qualification, and the range is the actual term-time rate for the job.

If this job sounds like the right fit for you, click on the Apply button on the MacIntyre website, complete some brief details and upload your CV. If you would prefer to complete a manual application form, call us 01908 357 016 and we will send an application form to you.

Please note: we reserve the right to close this advert early if we have received a sufficient number of applications, so don't delay, apply today.

MacIntyre safeguards and promotes the welfare of the children, young people and adults we support. Therefore we work with successful candidates to complete appropriate checks prior to joining. MacIntyre is committed to promoting equality, encouraging diversity and embracing inclusion among our workforce. We want our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and the people we support.