Aspris South Wales College is recruiting a Tutor to join our Teaching team now! We are looking for an ambitious, energetic and committed tutor who will expand the learning experiences and provide tuition for small groups of young people, which allows for full engagement and ensures that the program of learning meets the needs of the individual. You will have experience teaching the national curriculum across primary and/or secondary within Special Educational Needs. The successful candidate will be teaching and supporting our young people who may have autism, emotional behavioural difficulties, ADHD and associated complex needs.
The position is:
* Monday Thursday 8.30 16:00
* 4 days per week
* 12 month fixed-term contract
* Tutoring small class sizes
Our benefits include:
* Exclusive access to reward and discount scheme
* Comprehensive induction
* Blue Light Card
* Commitment to your ongoing training and career progression
* Pension scheme
* Paid for enhanced PVG/DBS
* Wellbeing support
* Cycle to work scheme and more!
Aspris College South Wales is an independent, specialist co-educational college for young adults aged 16 - 25 with Asperger's syndrome, autistic spectrum disorders and associated conditions based at Cwmbran. The college was set up in partnership with Coleg Gwent, the largest further education college in Wales, to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of our young people.
The main purpose of this role would be:
* To develop, maintain and teach an innovate, inclusive and engaging curriculum access relevant subject areas as directed by the Curriculum Lead.
* To support initial and ongoing assessment and diagnostics, learner achievement, target setting and other quality measures as required by awarding bodies.
* To be responsible for planning and preparing schemes of work and individual lessons for a range of learners with different needs including autism, learning disabilities, non verbal, and challenging behaviours. Excellent knowledge of Sign Along and/or Makaton would be an advantage.
* To assess, record and report on students' development, progress and attainment in line with accredited to RARPA programme of study.
* To attend progress reviews and interim reviews of students in your cohort and provide a progress report to the agreed time scale.
* To communicate and consult with other professionals, including external agencies in carrying out assessments.
* To communicate and consult with the senior management team, students, parents, carers and key stakeholders. to be flexible and able to teach other classes/cohorts when required.
At Aspris Children’s Services, we are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. As long as you can demonstrate the values needed for a role, transferable skills and life experience, we will give you all the training and support you need to progress!
The successful candidate will have previous experience of teaching the national curriculum, as well as teaching and supporting young people within SEN schools, along with the following characteristics:
Resilience We support some of the most vulnerable children in society who have varying degrees of emotional behavioural difficulties, autism, ADHD and associated difficulties so there will be times where your resilience is challenged.
Communication Communicating with our young people is vital to understand their needs. Good teamwork and communication plays a key part in ensuring important information is relayed to other staff.
Organisation You will have experience of organising, planning and teaching well-structured lessons tailored to the needs of the pupils as well as monitoring each students learning needs, adapting teaching to respond to the strengths and needs of each pupil.
Caring Our young people require the best care we can offer. If you are a naturally caring and compassionate person, this is the role for you.
Attentive No two tasks will be the same so being attentive to understand the needs of the young people we support is vital
Above all, we provide a supportive and collaborative working environment where you can flourish in your career and feel incredibly rewarded by helping those who need it most.
If you want residential childcare to be a job for life, Aspris Children’s Services will help you get there.
Aspris is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with Disclosure & Barring Service and at least 2 references which cover the last 3 years; for all our services we will request references from where you have worked with either Children or Vulnerable Adults. Please be advised that references may be requested prior to interview for roles within our Schools.