Learning Support Practitioner - Term Time - Special Needs Position

The Oaks Specialist College, Tonbridge

• Ref:KCC886-7071-48S
• Posted:21/05/2025
• Pay:£18,500 to £28,000 FTE salary pro rata £14,901.33
• Start Date:Thursday 4 September 2025
• App Close Date:18/06/2025 at 23:00
• Interviews:Monday 30 June 2025

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As an active and effective member of the Teaching and Learning Team, you will:-

1. Support the learning of groups, individuals, subjects and skills as deployed by the College Principal and Deputy Principal, throughout The Oaks and in the community.
2. Engage all learners and encourage and enthuse them in order to enable them to make good or better progress and become as skilled, knowledgeable and independent as possible so that they become successful learners, confident individuals and responsible, contributing citizens.
3. Utilise the on-site café, supermarket and other enterprise opportunities to provide learners with the experience of working in real-life situations and environments.
4. Develop and maintain links with the local community to support the enterprise portfolio of the College.
5. Liaise with teaching staff to obtain knowledge of learners’ special needs and physical disabilities and deploy positive and targeted support for all learners with specific learning needs or difficulties.
6. Support teaching staff and therapists with the timetabling of therapy provision for young people who require physical management to be integrated into their learning programme, following manual handling plans where appropriate.
7. Support the personal care and daily living tasks of our learners who require additional support.
8. Build all learners’ enthusiasm for learning, optimism, self-esteem, self-confidence, independence and a problem-solving approach with active participation in their learning and self-assessment in the context of a working environment.
9. Develop and manage positive and productive relationships with all learners, staff, carers, parents, Trustees.
10. Develop learners’ participation, social skills, responsibility, concern for others, independence, literacy, numeracy and Digital skills throughout the curriculum and enable them to make safe and healthy choices.
11. Use and develop opportunities for learning outside the classroom, including online.
12. Promote positive behaviour, setting consistent, clear expectations for maintaining appropriate behaviour, managing any challenging or difficult behaviour from learners, minimising any negative impact on the learning of others, and/or on the learners themselves.
13. Regularly monitor, evaluate, record and report the progress of learners in relation to their prior attainment, using agreed College systems and to use this to provide constructive on-going feedback to learners to guide their learning and develop their individual capacity to know, understand, value and build on their own strengths and skills.
14. Liaise with teaching staff to contribute to target setting for further learning and modification of planning.
15. Participate in, and engage with, a range of College based and external INSET and professional development activities, including performance management feedback, and sharing best practice and outcomes with colleagues and to continuously improve own teaching performance.
16. Implement all College procedures & policies consistently, and contribute to their evaluation and further development, supporting the College in achieving its aims, vision and priorities as set out in the College Development Plan.

Information about the school

The Oaks Specialist College is a registered ‘Outstanding’ provision based in Tonbridge, set up to meet the needs of young adults aged 18-25 with learning difficulties or disabilities (LLDD). From September 2025, we are expanding our provision and are excited to welcome young adults with physical disabilities.

Our aim is to complement and work alongside existing providers in the area, to ensure that the needs and aspirations of our young people can be met locally. We work with a range of local businesses to enable our learners to seek employment and play an active role in their community.

We have varying levels of needs and offer learning programmes to learners who require a multi-sensory curriculum to learners who undertake a programme of study and work-related learning and experience that will lead to further vocational training, internships/apprenticeships and employment.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Nikki Twiner
• Address:The Oaks Specialist College, Cage Green Road, Tonbridge, Kent, TN10 4PT
• Telephone: 01732 207950
• Email: hr@theoaks.ac.uk

Documents

Below are documents that have been added to this vacancy.

• StaffCode of Conduct
• Safeguarding Policy
• Job description and Person Specification
• The Oaks Specialist College PD Plan1
• The Oaks Specialist College PD Plan2