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Are you passionate about building meaningful relationships with autistic young people? Do you have the skills to inspire and support learners through challenges?
St John's College is seeking a dedicated and dynamic Lecturer to join our team and help our learners thrive.
Key Responsibilities
Build Strong Relationships
Foster meaningful connections with learners, focusing on their individual needs and challenges. Reflect and adapt your approach to ensure all students feel valued and understood.
Facilitate Challenging Conversations
Engage with students through tough conversations, maintaining respect and a positive relationship, ensuring their voice is heard.
Community Building
Advocate for mental health and prioritise building a supportive, inclusive community that encourages growth, emotional well-being, and mutual respect.
Goal-Oriented Approach
Work closely with learners to identify their personal and educational goals, creating tailored plans and providing the necessary guidance and support.
Staff Leadership
Lead by Example
Guide and inspire staff to effectively support learners, especially when addressing mental health challenges, ensuring the team is aligned and motivated.
Strong Management Skills
Oversee and direct staff to deliver the best outcomes for learners, creating a team environment that fosters growth and development.
Organisational Expertise
Highly Organised
Manage individualised schedules for learners with exceptional attention to detail, while ensuring all safeguarding and reporting responsibilities are met with urgency.
Collaborative Partnerships
Work with stakeholders (including OT, SaLT, and work experience partners) to address the diverse needs of learners, ensuring smooth transitions and full support.
Forward-Thinking and Flexible
Adaptability
Demonstrate a flexible approach to lesson planning, individualised targets, and learner schedules. Regularly assess what's working and adjust strategies accordingly.
Innovative Solutions
Think creatively to motivate and engage learners, ensuring their progress aligns with their long-term goals and aspirations.
Preparing for Life After College
Focus on preparing learners for the next steps in their journey, whether it be further education, employment, or transitioning back to their homes and communities.
At St John's College, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where every learner is empowered to reach their full potential. If you are a compassionate, innovative, and organised individual with a passion for working with young people, we want to hear from you.
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Join us in shaping the future of our learners. Help them build strong relationships, overcome challenges, and achieve their aspirations.
Closing date for applications: Wednesday 14th May 2025
Candidates informed of outcome: Thursday 15th May 2025
Interview date (via Microsoft Teams): Friday 16th May 2025
Ambitious about Autism is committed to fostering equity, diversity, and inclusion at every level of our organisation. We warmly welcome applications from all qualified candidates, valuing the diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives they bring. We encourage applications from individuals regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or parental status, disability, or age.
Our recruitment process promotes equal opportunities, and we are committed to providing reasonable adjustments for candidates with disabilities or additional needs throughout the recruitment process. Please contact our Recruitment Team for accommodations. We recognise disability as a physical or mental impairment that significantly and long-term affects a person's ability to perform day-to-day activities, as defined by the UK Equality Act 2010. All applications will be considered solely on merit, aligned with our mission to support autistic children and young people.
Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check. As part of our Safer Recruitment checks, an online search maybe carried out in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.
The Safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification.
Whether the post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendment to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2021. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected', so they 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 Filter Guidance.
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About Gaddum
Gaddum is a mental health and carers charity supporting people of all ages. As well as providing services we act as an anchor institution to support the sustainability and development of the wider VCSE sector. Our vision is for every individual and community we walk alongside to have equitable health, wealth and self.
Our Mission
Being almost 200 years old, Gaddum has seen some of the most challenging and inequitable times in the UK’s history, and the world we are living in is still one where so many don’t have the opportunities or resources they need to achieve their aspirations. Today we continue our mission – and we will do this by supporting, influencing, and campaigning as we push for equitable health, wealth and self.
We amplify the voices of the communities we serve, and we empower individuals to overcome challenges by listening, supporting, and advocating for their needs.
We believe…
• everyone has mental health, and it is as important as physical health
• life can be hard, and everyone needs a helping hand sometimes
• everyone has a right to support, when and how they need it, and that no one should be overlooked
• in being of service by holding the whole individual at the heart of our approach and embracing solutions that lie within communities
• there is injustice in the world but both systems and society can change for the better
• we can be agents of positive change; working with others, learning from diverse lived experience, and advocating for fairness
Our Values…
…are our foundations – they are what holds us firm in uncertain times, and they are our reference point for all that we do.
We value:
Being Heard: no matter why or how someone finds their way to us, we will listen
Collaborative Curiosity: harnessing our skills, knowledge, talents and the insights of others, we create new possibilities by exploring with people
Purposeful Work: paying attention to others’ needs and voices, we channel our resources into actions and outcomes that matter to the people we serve
Meaningful Connection: treating every individual as a whole person, developing relationships through empathy and acceptance
Thoughtful Safe Services: providing clear reasons for decisions and efficient, safe and effective practices, we earn confidence and trust by focussing on quality
Role Purpose
The purpose of this role is to provide operational leadership and oversight of the Carers Manchester Volunteer Programme and support the wider development of the Volunteer Programme at Gaddum. The Volunteer Coordinator will work with Carers Manchester colleagues to ensure volunteers feel equipped and supported to use their skills and lived experience in a range of established volunteer roles.
They will also work with the team to develop and recruit volunteers for new roles that support Carers Manchester to deliver on its aims and objectives. The role will involve maintaining close working relationships with our Central Team, Health & Safety systems, and compliance responsibilities.
All staff are expected to work within all Gaddum policies and procedures. This role is subject to a basic DBS check.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Here are five reasons why you should join Ambition Institute’s 12-month teacher training programme:
Learn with England’s largest professional development provider
We are England’s largest professional development provider for teachers and school leaders. In 2024/25 1 in 10 teachers and leaders in state-funded schools currently developing professionally with Ambition. When your programme is complete, you also have the option to progress your career further and move on to our two-year training for Early Career Teachers, which will help you develop your expertise.
Train in school: You’ll do most of your training in one school. This gives you immediate opportunities to put the theory you’ve learned into practice in a classroom, supported by teaching experts.
Be guided by a mentor: To ensure you’re supported throughout your training, we match you with an experienced teacher who will guide you every step of the way.
Benefit from blended learning: You’ll get the high-quality academic training you'd expect to get from a university combined with immersive, classroom learning.
Become a qualified teacher. After successfully completing the programme, you’ll achieve qualified teacher status (QTS) and a postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE) accredited by Liverpool Hope University, enabling you to start your career in teaching straight away.
Eligibility:
To be eligible, you will need:
· An undergraduate bachelor's degree with honours, or equivalent.
· A GCSE grade 4/C or above in English and maths, or equivalent.
· Primary school trainees will need a GCSE grade 4/C or above in science, or equivalent
· By the start of the training, successful candidates must have permission to work in the UK full-time for the duration of the programme.
Locations available for our training currently include:
North East England, North West England, South East England, South West England, Midlands, East of England and London. Use our map tool to filter to a location that suits you.
Tuition fees:
All trainees will need to pay tuition fees unless you are a salaried trainee - salaried places are limited. Tuition fees are £9,535 for full-time study and £7,145 per year for part-time study. If you are eligible for a student loan in the UK, you can get a student loan to cover these costs, as well as a maintenance grant up to £13,762.
If you want to train as a secondary trainee teacher, you may be able to apply for funding to cover the costs of your tuition fees through a bursary or scholarship, which you would not need to pay back.
Funding:
We offer a few salaried placements, but if you do not choose a salaried teacher training course, and depending on your subject choice, you may be eligible to receive funding through a bursary or a scholarship up to £31,000, which you do not have to pay back. You can learn more about all the teacher training funding options via our ‘Cost’ tab here: Initial Teacher Training Programme: Train to Teach course | Ambition Institute
Option of part-time training:
A part-time option is also available over two years, but not all our school partners offer this option. Again, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button to see which of our partners are providing this.
Application Process
- Application: The first step when applying is to select which of our partners you want to train with. You can do this by clicking the ‘Apply’ button and navigating to our partner map tool to choose your preferred school partner in the region suited to you. You will then be able to register with this partner and complete our short application form. Alternatively, you can follow the same link and just register your interest in our programme for now and we’ll be in touch with more details.
- Interview: Our friendly team at Ambition Institute will assess your application and if you are eligible, will pass your application to your preferred school partner. You will then be invited to attend an interview. The interview will involve five questions and one task.
- Offer: If you are successful at the assessment stage you will be provided with a conditional offer. Please note the conditions of the offer are dependent on you completing the relevant pre-programme checks.
About Ambition
A great teacher changes the future every day. They can be the critical factor in a child’s success, especially for those who have had a tough start in life. At Ambition Institute, we support teachers and school leaders at every stage of their careers, helping them to keep getting better. We are a charity providing training and professional development based on the most rigorous research and evidence about what really works. Together, we’re shaping the future of education to give every child the best start in life.
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