Specialist Mentor (Autism Spectrum Condition

Specialist Mentor (Autism Spectrum Condition)

Edinburgh, Sunderland

£28.00 + £3.38 holiday pay per hour

Clear Links Support is recruiting for One-to-One Specialist Mentors to support students with an autism spectrum condition studying in Edinburgh and Sunderland.

You will be working with higher education students to provide strategies to develop their skills in the management of the impact of the condition or impairment on their academic experience. To manage anxiety, to develop concentration skills, time management skills, to prioritise workloads and create schedules of work-life balance. This also includes skills in acquiring, recalling, and retaining information in written and spoken language, and strategies to develop memory, organisation, attention, and numeracy skills.

Pay: £28 per hour plus £3.38 holiday pay per hour.

• Flexible working hours to suit your availability
• Competitive hourly pay rate, plus holiday pay per hour (£3.38 for this role)
• Continuous Professional Development allowance
• Free CPD accredited online training on relevant topics
• Workplace pension scheme
• A dedicated team of office staff and a single point of contact to support you in the role

• Applicants must be available to provide in person support at either University of Edinburgh or University of Sunderland from September 2026.

• A degree
• Six National Autistic Society (NAS) Online Training Modules
  • Understanding autism
  • Autism and communication
  • Autism and sensory experience
  • Autism, stress and anxiety
  • Autism: supporting families
  • Autism and Girls
• OR
  • Optimum Student Support training course:
    Autism and ADHD in Higher
    
    Education:
    
    Recognising and addressing the barriers through Non-Medical Helper (NMH) Mentoring and Study Skills Strategies
• If you have a relevant postgraduate qualification such as a PGCert or Masters in Autism, you will still need to complete the NAS Autism and Girls online training module.
• It is desirable that applicants have experience in a similar role within the last five years.
• Applicants should also have an understanding of the impact of disabilities in the further/higher education context.

• Applicants must be able to work in a way that promotes the safety and wellbeing of children and young people.
• By the start of employment, the successful candidate must have permission to work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996.
• This post is also subject to satisfactory references, a background check under the PVG Scheme for work in Scotland, as well as other applicable pre-employment checks.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader and are positive about the employment of disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised vacancy will be contacted to discuss their application further.

If you may need reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please indicate this on the application form. We will contact you to find out how we can best support you if your application is progressed.

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We aim to process applications within 7 working days but during busy periods this may take longer.