Additional Learning Support Assistants

£12,459.62 per annum (actual salary for 25 hours weekly contract)

£11.89 per hour

Bolton College is looking to appoint experienced and dedicated Additional Learning Support Assistants to join our team. 

Ideally, you will have:

• Level 2 qualifications in English and Maths or willingness to work towards.
• Evidence of job-related training.
• Experience of supporting learners with disabilities, learning difficulties and social, emotional and mental well-being issues with their further education studies.
• To have an understanding of the needs of learners with disabilities, learning difficulties and social, emotional and mental well-being issues and strategies for differentiating support.

Day-to-day you will be responsible:

• To support student need to ensure equitable access to all College programmes by all students, whilst maintaining high expectations.
• To help to organise student files.
• To focus the student on the instructions and meaning of the activity and to ensure the student understands the tasks in hand.
• To promote confidence, motivate and provide guidance and encouragement in whatever activities they are undertaking.
• To encourage the student to integrate into the learning group.
• To ensure students are up to date with their work and liaise with the tutors to identify gaps and assist in getting the student to meet targets
• To liaise and work with the Admissions and Student Services teams to contribute to managing the progress of prospective learners with additional support needs into College.

We currently offer a permanent contract of up to 25 hours per week working on a term time only basis, but you would probably have the opportunity to extend these hours on a casual basis so flexibility is important.   

An application pack can be downloaded from our website by accessing (www.boltoncollege.ac.uk) or by email request to:[email protected]  

Closing Date:              8th July 2024

Interview Date:            17th July 2024

Job Ref:                       187-24