Group Head of Supported Learning

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Group Head of Supported Learning ​

Commencing as soon as possible/September 2023

Full Time

Permanent Contract

MPR/UPR (with TLR and SEN allowance)

We are seeking a dedicated, experienced, and passionate individual to lead and coordinate Learning Support across our Group. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in the development and implementation of this key area with a focus on developing and growing a high-quality Eastern Colleges Group Supported Learning curriculum provision.

The position will include overall responsibility for our provision to students with SEN, psychological difficulties, and physical disabilities, to ensure that barriers to learning are mitigated and access arrangements are effectively managed.

This is an opportunity to join a hugely supportive organisation where we value, support, and facilitate your professional development, as well as offering many other benefits including an attractive pension scheme, staff wellbeing initiatives and employee assistance.

The Eastern Colleges Group is a collective of visionary post-16 education providers. Sharing the same ambitious strategic aims, we are committed to providing outstanding vocational and academic excellence to over 15,000 students across the region.

Eastern Colleges Group members:

• Abbeygate Sixth Form College, Bury St Edmunds
• One Sixth Form College, Ipswich

• West Suffolk College, Bury St Edmunds
• Strategic Growth and Partnerships, Bury St Edmunds

We provide an outstanding education to every one of our students. Our ethos is to put our learners’ success at the heart of everything we do. That means we do everything we can to help our students succeed and be the best they can be.

We have an impressive range of courses, high quality facilities, inspiring tutors and incredible opportunities to open up a career or succeed in higher education. We believe in engaging with our students as young adults in a supportive and encouraging ment and we aim to give the best opportunity to develop, grow and become passionately involved in their own education. We also have strong links with business and industries in the region to make sure our students develop skills that will increase their employability.

The Eastern Colleges Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please complete the application documentation from our webpage: https://www.suffolkone.ac.uk/work-at-one/vacancies

Alternatively, please contact the HR Team: [email protected] for more information.

SAT and WSC are committed to Safeguarding. We aim to create the safest ment within which every student has the opportunity to achieve and progress.