Personal Learning Coordinator Tutor (Maternity Cover)

Personal Learning Coordinator Tutor

Are you an innovative and creative professional inspired to use your skills to support people with complex physical and learning disabilities?

Join the highly respected team of Personal Learning Co-ordinator Tutors at National Star. We have a full time maternity cover role available working between Monday - Friday over 40 weeks (term time plus one week).

It will be your job to put together learning programmes for students with Complex Learning Difficulties and Disabilities (CLDD) such as Autistic Spectrum Condition (ASC) or Multi-Sensory Impairments and/ or Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD). Typically, the learners you would be teaching are learning at an early years to early key stage 1 level.

Multi-disciplinary work will be critical in your role so that you can ensure students maximise their learning, boosting their independence and wellbeing to prepare them for life after college. A large part of your role will involve liaising with other staff, external professionals and students’ parents, as well as monitoring, recording and optimising the progress of learners.

It goes without saying that you will be a first-class communicator, who is creative, proactive and forward-thinking with excellent organisational skills.

You will have experience of working with people with complex learning difficulties and disabilities such as ASC and/ or profound and multiple learning difficulties. You will hold a relevant level 3 or 4 professional qualification and ideally have or be willing to work towards a teaching qualification at Diploma level. (Persons enrolled on the full teaching Diploma programme due to complete this academic year may apply; the role will be offered on a lower salary and an adjustment applied on confirmation of fully qualified status)

How we will reward you

Our Golden Hello

It’s motivating to feel valued at work. That’s why all new staff will receive a ‘Golden Hello’ up to the value of £250 for full-time staff (pro-rata for part-time employees) upon successful completion of their probation.

Staff benefits

Fantastic career development opportunities and comprehensive induction programme - theory and practical

Award-winning training

Use of fitness suite and swimming pool and staff clubs

Westfield medical cover

Life insurance cover

Employee helpline

Contributory pension scheme

Opportunity to purchase a TOTUM discount card

Employee discounts at attractions, high street retailers, supermarkets, utilities and motoring, plus much more

How to apply

At National Star, we know the value of a diverse workforce, and welcome applications from all areas of the community. This includes those with disabilities, and we are a proud Disability Confident employer and are committed to providing equal opportunities. In 2018 National Star received an ’Outstanding’ from Ofsted.

Please note that all applicants will be expected to undertake a DBS Disclosure, and undergo the necessary employer checks. The level of disclosure to be applied for will be dependent on your job role and will be discussed with you during the recruitment process but is usually an enhanced level. Where appropriate, the adult and child barred lists will be checked and we will not employ anyone who appears on either of those registers.

We prefer people to submit an online application as this helps support the charity in saving money. Alternatively please send your cv to recruitment@nationalstar.org or call our recruitment department 01242 527631 for further information or an application form. If you have a disability and need to apply using an alternative format, or if you have any technical problems with our recruitment system please let us know.

All future correspondence with you will be via email (application acknowledgement, invitation to interview etc). Please check your email regularly.