Job Title: Additional Learning Support Team Leader

Location: Middlesbrough College Main Campus, TS2 1AD

Department: Additional Learning Support

Reporting to: Head of Additional Learning Support

Salary: £28,485 - £30,390 per annum

Annual Leave: 30 days per annum, plus statutory Bank Holidays

Contractual hours: 37 hours per week

Basis: Full time, Permanent

Pension: Local Government Pension

Join Our Team

As the Additional Learning Support (ALS) Team Leader, you will lead and inspire a dedicated team of Learning Support Assistants, ensuring exceptional support for learners with diverse needs. You’ll provide day-to-day guidance, deliver tailored interventions, and champion best practices that empower students to achieve their full potential. This role combines leadership, collaboration, and a commitment to creating an inclusive learning environment where every individual can thrive.

What You’ll Be Doing:

As an Additional Learning Support Team Leader, you will:

• Lead a team of Learning Support Assistants, including day to day supervision, managing timetabling and sickness absence cover.
• Be the lead on providing specialist support to an individual or small group of students with emotional or behavioural difficulties and/ or challenging behaviour and help develop their social skills.
• Be involved in the designing and implementation of behavioral strategies for students with High Needs as an intervention.
• Develop support plans for a caseload of High Needs students including the sharing of information with Personal tutors and the allocation of Learning Support within the classrooms.
• Be involved in the transition, assessment, and guidance of potential students.
• Lead on the Education, Health, and Care plans for a case load of students within the assigned directorate.

What We’re Looking For:

We seek candidates who:

• Hold an appropriate level 2 qualification in supporting students in an educational setting (or equivalent) or commitment to complete within an agreed timescale.

• Grade C or above in Maths and English (or equivalent).

• Certificate in Behaviour Management - Desirable

• Team Teaching Qualification – Desirable

• Training Qualification – Desirable

• Experience supporting learners with Social, Emotional, and Mental Health difficulties and working with disengaged young people aged 16–19 (or up to 24 with SEN) – Desirable.

• Is empathetic, patient, and resilient.

• Works well as part of a team, but also shows initiative when working independently.

• Is committed to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion.

What’s in it for you?

The college offers an excellent benefits package which includes:

• Generous Annual Leave (30-45 days per annum (pro rata), depending on role).
• Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.
• Competitive Salaries.
• Cycle to Work Salary Sacrifice Scheme.
• Excellent Training and development opportunities.
• Dedicated Teaching & Learning coaches for New Staff.
• On-site staff parking available.
• Contributions to a variety of role-based pensions schemes including Teachers Pension, Local Government Pension Scheme and NEST Pension.
• On site restaurant and food outlets including Costa Coffee.
• Extensive wellbeing provision including, but not limited to:
  - 24 hour Employee Assistance Programme (free counselling support for staff and their immediate family).           
   -Occupational Health.           
  - Free Flu jabs. 
  - Free Gym Membership for all staff. 
  - Discounted hair and beauty salon treatments.

To learn more about working at Middlesbrough College, please visit our Work For Us page.

For further details and to discuss the role in more detail, please contact Leanne Elsy, Head Of Additional Learning Support, on L.Elsy@mbro.ac.uk

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Ready to Make a Difference? Apply Early!

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we can appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closing date. We therefore encourage applicants to submit their applications as soon as possible.

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application.

SAFEGUARDING

Middlesbrough College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students, including children, young people, and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff to share this commitment.

This role involves regulated activity and direct contact with children and young people. The successful candidate will be expected to uphold the highest standards of safeguarding practice.

We follow Safer Recruitment practices in line with the statutory guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references, an online search, and proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. All convictions, cautions, and bind-overs, including those regarded as ‘spent’, must be declared, subject to the DBS filtering rules.

It is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity with children.

Middlesbrough College is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

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