Inclusion Assistant

Job Location

Stevenage, Engineering and Construction and Hitchin campuses.

Job Description

Salary: £24,755 - £26,111 FTE (£18,323.92 - £19,327.65 per annum, pro rata), depending on experience. Pension provided. Job type: Permanent. Hours: 0.74 fraction (34 hrs/week, 5 days/week for 36 weeks/year).

About the Role: The ALS team supports students in achieving their learning goals, both inside and outside the classroom. A fully inclusive approach is used, creating adapted learning materials and sourcing accessible technology. The Inclusion Assistant promotes an accessible, equitable learning environment for all students.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement highly effective strategies to support students with diverse additional learning needs, promoting independence and tailoring support to individual Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCP), support plans, and assessment targets.
• Assist teaching staff with the delivery of outstanding teaching and learning, including the use of specialist assistive technology, to ensure students achieve planned outcomes.
• Interpret instructions to aid students in following directions and managing communication challenges, ensuring equal access.
• Maintain accurate, timely departmental records and contribute to setting and monitoring individual targets, including annual EHCP outcome reviews.
• Provide support with study skills, pastoral needs, and community access in 1:1 or small groups, aiding students to navigate challenges and progress toward their goals.
• Assist with personal care, mobility aid, medication administration, and individual arrangements for students with complex support needs.
• Support students in engaging with work experience opportunities, liaising with employers and the Work Experience coordinator, coaching students for interviews, and maintaining department placement records.
• Adhere to confidentiality, college SEND, health and safety, equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and safeguarding policies.
• Contribute to curriculum team work, attend curriculum events, course and department meetings, and engage in professional development including SEND specific training.
• Promote equality and diversity, uphold the Health & Safety at Work Act, safeguard the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, and comply with North Hertfordshire College policies and procedures.
• Carry out any additional duties appropriate to the grade of the post.

Person Specification

• Experience working with vulnerable young people who have SEND, including neurodiversity and social-emotional and mental health challenges.
• Commitment to improving opportunities for young people with SEND, especially in independence, health and well being, social inclusion and work opportunities.
• Level 2 qualification in learning support or a related discipline.
• Clear communication of outcomes and broader impacts of the role.
• Effective decision making and problem solving within remit; good judgement and flexible adaptation to change.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, sensitivity and respect for others.
• Proactive personal development, willingness to learn new approaches, and accountability for results.
• Collaborative working, customer focused service delivery, and organized task completion.