Team Leader Additional Learning Support in Oldham

We are looking for an Additional Learning Support Team Leader.

Salary: £31,920 - £34,040 + fantastic benefits.

The Role:

• Responsible for the day-to-day management and organisation of staff allocated to the support provision for mainstream and complex needs.
• Promote excellence in learning support through role model practice.
• Communicate effectively with parents and carers to ensure that the needs of the students are being met.
• Lead a solution-focused team to enhance team performance while maintaining effective working relationships.
• Allocate duties, complete appraisals, and conduct regular performance reviews.
• Facilitate CPD sessions for college staff.

The role will require you to embed and work to the college's values: working with Integrity, having Ambition to help our learners succeed, and being Inclusive to learners and colleagues alike.

If you want to be outstanding and help us achieve the same thing, then please apply.

Closing date: 23 June 2025.

Stephanie Firth, Head of Additional Learning Support, says:

In this role, you will need to be responsible for the day-to-day running of a team of Additional Learning Support staff. You will need to liaise closely with subject staff and with a range of external partners and agencies to ensure that the College provides the best possible opportunities for all learners who require support. If you have a passion for changing lives through inclusive education, we want to hear from you.

Joining our Journey:

When you join our college, not only will you benefit from an annual reviewed salary but have access to numerous benefits and facilities:

• Generous Pension Scheme
• Fantastic Staff Benefits and Rewards platform
• Very generous holiday entitlement
• Employee Assistance Scheme
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity provision
• Staff Development days/week (Jan, July, Aug)
• Free confidential counselling service
• Staff recognition awards
• Car Scheme
• Subsidised car parking
• On-site Day Nursery
• On-site hair and beauty salon

Oldham College is a great career choice for ambitious professionals. With one of the best apprenticeship programmes in the region, excellent 16-18 results, and truly outstanding GCSE English results, we are already a high performer.

But we want to deliver much more than this. Our ambition is to be The Best Place to Learn and Work, and we have a clear Strategic Plan which sets out what this means and what we will do to deliver it. We will keep on improving and innovating, and we are investing in new provision, new facilities, and new technology; including our state-of-the-art clinical simulation suite.

We expect a lot from you, so we want ambitious, open-minded candidates who are ready to give their best. But we give a lot in return, from training to pensions, our own benefits package, and one of the best and most helpful groups of colleagues you could ever wish to meet.

At Oldham College, our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We encourage everyone to join us as we create a workforce that is as diverse as our wonderful student community. We do monitor responses to our diversity questions in our application to ensure that we can continue to build a workforce that is representative of the community that we serve.

We understand that not everyone works to the same timetable and offer a range of flexible working options, including flexible start and finish times, part-time, term-time only, or hybrid options, where the role permits.

We will do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, contact our HR team who will be happy to advise.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable laws, a pre-employment screening could include employment history, education, and other information that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the role.

Oldham College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.