Learning Mentor – Liskeard/ Bodmin

Are you kind and caring, with a passion to enable young people to achieve their goals? Would you like a job with variety and a sense of fulfilment, where you can make a difference to the lives of young people with varied needs?

We are looking for friendly, supportive people with experience working with individuals with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities to join our growing education team at ROC College.

Working with a registered charity, their mission is ensuring individuals with learning disabilities, mental or physical support needs have the opportunity to live their lives to the full. The College we are working with is a specialist college that provides person-centred, community-based teaching and learning within Cornwall, Devon and Somerset. We work with young people between the ages of 16 and 25 who have Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs).

We are keen to hear from applicants with experience of working with individuals with Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND). You will be patient, supportive and enthusiastic, and able to use your creativity and initiative to provide accessible education content tailored to our students an work experience.

The Ideal applicant will have necessary skills to support developing independence and accessing the students local community and Support with PBS practice and understanding of complex behavioural needs and experience with individuals with complex learning disabilities , high needs , personal care and epilepsy.

You will also need to have the flexibility to travel across the community with students. This is a fantastic opportunity for those wanting to progress their skills and experience in teaching and learning. Experience of working with young people with challenging behaviours would be an advantage.

What To Expect

You will be working as part of the ROC College team to support students between the ages of 16 and 25 with EHCPs to develop life skills in a variety of community settings and you will need to have the flexibility to travel across the community with students such as learning hubs, libraries, workplaces and leisure facilities. You will assess student progress and outcomes, and help to provide accredited learning based on a personalised curriculum.

Working With Long Term Teachers

We are an independent agency working with Nurseries, Primary, Secondary and Special Schools.

LTT was founded with the aim of creating a genuine, transparent and straightforward service to help candidates secure their next role. We place a huge emphasis on delivering an exceptional service where you will be supported, listened to and valued throughout.

Your dedicated consultant will invest time to understand your experience, skill-set and what your ideal role looks like. You will have frequent updates with your progress through compliance, applications for specific roles as well as receiving additional information on roles which we feel may be of interest to you.

We are proud members of the REC and we have the highest standard of compliance. Working with us means you will get the very best support and guidance through the clearance process from your own specific point of contact from our in-house compliance team.