Your career in care with Hesley Group
Location
Doncaster
Department
Education
Advertising Salary
£23,056
Vacancy Type
Permanent
Hours Per Week
40
Careers Site Advertising End Date
25 Apr 2025

About The Role

The role of the day support worker is to provide support for students with severe and complex learning difficulties and/or disabilities (LDD), and to work with tutors to ensure the delivery of an effective programme of further education and to work as part of a co-ordination team. As a day support worker you will provide individual and bespoke support to individual learners or small groups as required. you will provide written and verbal feedback in respect of progress and achievement during the day using IPlanit, or other standardised means of recording.

It will be the role of a day support worker to ensure all recording is completed at the end of the day to guarantee timely and effective action as well as communicating effectively with parents and/or carers as required and set up communication books if required.

Salary and terms and conditions as per support worker, except:

  • Working hours Monday-Friday 8am-4pm
  • The post is term time only with 12 weeks’ holiday during the academic year.
  • Line management provided by college education team.
 
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About You

You must be active with a keen interest in health and fitness, confident to support in the water to attend swimming sessions.

Proactive, forward thinking with a passion for education to support student’s to achieve their targets.

Excellent communication skills, experience with Makaton and PECS is desirable.

You will be able to understand and relate to students with special needs and who need careful and detailed support to access learning. You will need to have the ability to supervise and support students in classrooms and off site.

As a strong team player and excellent communicator you will work alongside education colleagues, care colleagues and clinicians to help us provide the highest standards of care and education across the College. 

For an informal conversation about this role please contact Laura Taylor on [email protected]

*We are not offering sponsorship for this role therefore please only apply if you have 12 months or more on your current visa*

About Us

Benefits of working for us:
  • Continuous support and feedback through 1:1 supervision
  • Ongoing free mandatory and development training days
  • Regular promotion opportunities
  • Pension scheme
  • Access to hundreds of discounts and benefits through our Hesley Hub reward and recognition platform, as well as the chance to win up to £100 vouchers every month from our STAR Awards
  • Access to our employee assistance programme which includes physiotherapy and counselling
Diversity, equality and inclusion are a priority for us. We aim for all our colleagues to feel valued and respected, so we're building an inclusive culture which supports people from all backgrounds and communities to be at their best at work. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and celebrate all forms of diversity, including (but not limited to) ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity, age, socioeconomic status, family or parental status, beliefs and religions. We believe that it’s by drawing on different perspectives and experiences that we’ll continue to support and offer the best possible care, education and vocational opportunities for young people and adults with learning disabilities.
 
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