ALS Admin

Are you passionate about helping young people with additional needs reach their full potential? We're seeking a part time, motivated Additional Learning Support (ALS) Admin to join our mainstream curriculum team, helping students develop independence, resilience, and lifelong skills.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Act as the key contact for learners with SEND and their families - building trusting, positive relationships.
• Coordinate support through pre-course interviews, enrolment & EHCP annual reviews, ensuring paperwork is completed efficiently.
• Work closely with teaching staff to identify and meet learners' needs and ensure high quality, personalised support is in place.
• Produce and maintain individual learning plans, tracking progress and outcomes.
• Support students in lessons and in the support centre, advocating for their learning needs.

Job Requirements

• GCSE Grade 4/C or above in English & Maths (or equivalent)
• Experience supporting students with SEND
• Resilience, flexibility and a positive, "can do" attitude
• Excellent communication, administrative and interpersonal skills
• Commitment to safeguarding and promoting equality

The right candidate will have:

• Level 3 qualification or above
• Education sector experience
• Good IT skills and ability to write high quality reports

Why choose us?

Our strategy is to create a career focused, digital learning environment, ensuring that the learner experience and our relationships within our community, local and regional employers, are at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to be selected as finalists for the AoC Beacon awards for effective use of digital technology in FE. We provide a high achieving, focused learning environment that enables our students to achieve the grades they need for higher education or the skills and aptitude required to secure a suitable role in their chosen career. Our college is set in the leafy suburbs of Essex, with easy access to surrounding areas and amenities, and is well connected by road and rail.

What we offer:

• A dedicated and friendly team of professionals who are keen to develop and learn
• Annual staff awards
• CPD days - opportunities to grow and develop through mentorship and coaching
• Free onsite parking
• Staff appreciation days
• Onsite Starbucks & restaurant
• Electric vehicle scheme
• Discounted gym membership
• Hybrid working available
• Fully immersive teaching rooms that allow simultaneous online teaching at multiple locations
• Free employee assistance programme available 24/7, 365 days with legal & financial advice, as well as general support & guidance

subject to terms & conditions

This role is considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. It means that, when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are 'protected' and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

Shortlisted candidates will be required to complete a self declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Self declaration is subject to Ministry of Justice guidance on the disclosure of criminal records, further information can be found on GOV UK.

USP College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and we therefore expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service, and any other checks that the role requires to ascertain suitability for working with children and/or vulnerable adults, which may include online searches.

We will hold and process any personal data, including sensitive (special category) personal data, relating to you in accordance with the privacy notice for staff and our data protection policy. You should familiarise yourself with our data protection policy and all other subsidiary policies, and comply with them at all times. Neither the privacy notice for staff nor those policies form part of your contract of employment.