Send Job Coach

As one of the fastest-growing Colleges in the UK, delivering courses from entry level right up to Masters degrees, Weston College is an inspiring place to work. Why not join us as a SEND Job Coach? This is a full-time role, working 37 hours per week, all year round. Interviews for this role will take place on-site, at one of our college campuses in Weston-super-Mare. As a SEND Job Coach, you may be based at any of our Weston-super-Mare campuses. Day to day duties of the role

• Carrying out high quality Initial Needs Assessments and Vocational Profiling along with other appropriate assessments to establish support needs and effectively track progress leading to successful outcomes.
• Proactively deliver Job Coaching and implement the SEND Code of Practice and adherence to the Supported Employment National Occupational Standards.
• Plan and reviewing individual programmes of support ensuring all aspects of provision and support specified within a student's Education Health and Care Plan is in place and the progress is effectively tracked and monitored.
• Close liaison with the EHCP Coordinator to ensure a seamless process of applying for an EHCP, producing the necessary documentation and ensuring the statutory requirements are in place. Required skills and qualifications
• LDD or SEND qualification. All candidates must possess a recognised LDD qualification or be prepared to gain (with the assistance of the College) a qualification within the first two years of service.
• Relevant successful learning support and job coaching experience with evidence that these have led to sustainable paid employment outcomes.
• Knowledge and understanding of learning difficulties and disabilities and how these may affect the way students learn, gain and sustain paid employment.
• Knowledge and experience of current evidence-based job coaching and learning strategies.

Please note: this vacancy may close early if sufficient applications are received, so we encourage early applications.