Learning Support Specialist; Teaching

Learning Support Specialist (Teaching Role)

Hours:

37 hrs per week, 38 weeks a year

Contract Type:
Permanent

Location:

Exeter

Wish you could spend more time with students but have virtually no planning or marking? If you’re passionate about supporting students in small groups or 1:1 sessions, this could be your perfect role.

• Proactive and caring
• Happy to use your initiative
• A real team player
• An experienced teacher with a teaching qualification (e.g. PGCE, Cert Ed)

• Running drop‑in workshops and using your skills where learning happens to support students with specific challenges such as dyslexia and autism
• Supporting and monitoring a caseload of students with EHCPs
• Advising and supporting teaching and learning support staff on how best to facilitate success for our students
• Term‑time role (36 weeks); a few days fall outside term time to support SEND interview evenings across the academic year
• Supporting the enrolment process by talking to new students and sharing information about our offering

We offer generous holidays, a superb pension scheme, free counselling, discounted supermarket shopping, spa treatments, electric cars and paddle boarding.

Everyone’s welcome to apply for a role here, regardless of personal characteristics, including race, age, gender, religion, ability, disability, or sexuality.

We’re committed to safeguarding and welfare of all our students and expect you to be similarly committed. In line with statutory safeguarding guidance, if successful you’ll be required to complete thorough pre‑employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. All posts at Exeter College are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.