SEND Specialist - Assistive Technology and Accessibility

As a SEND Specialist - Assistive Technology and Accessibility, you will work with learners with a range of learning barriers associated with accessibility needs. This could include learners with visual and hearing impairments. Your duties will include:

• Working closely and proactively with curriculum and support colleagues to implement timely and proactive needs assessment, identifying learners who require Assistive Technology and/or accessibility support. To work with colleagues and oversee their planning and delivery of high-quality support interventions and support programmes, enabling learners to achieve their goals.
• Delivering focused and specific specialist interventions to support a specific caseload of learners with accessibility support needs.
• Regularly liaising with Heads of Department and curriculum staff in all areas and on all sites of the College, providing training and advice as well as a dynamic approach to ensure that the support needs of all individuals are met.
• Reviewing individual programmes of support, ensuring all aspects of provision and support specified within a learner's Initial Needs Assessment and/or Education Health Care Plan are delivered.
  
  A professional degree-level qualification related to SEND and/or accessibility specific qualifications.
• Relevant successful experience of supporting learners with SEND and accessibility needs.
• Knowledge and understanding of how SEND and Accessibility needs specifically may present barriers to learning and how these may affect the way learners learn.
• Skills in the development and implementation of personalised support and teaching programmes.
  
  As one of the fastest-growing Colleges in the UK, delivering courses from entry level right up to Masters degrees, Weston College is an inspiring place to work. Why not join us as a SEND Specialist - Assistive Technology and Accessibility?
This is a full-time role, working 37 hours per week. Interviews for this role will take place on-site, at one of our college campuses in Weston-super-Mare.