Learning Support Practitioner

Weeks per year: 38
Hours per week: 25
Salary per year: £11,742
Holiday payment: £1,584
Total pay per year: £13,326

Join Our Team as a Learning Support Practitioner at EKC Ashford College!

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of students? At EKC Ashford College, you’ll have the opportunity to support learners with diverse needs, helping them achieve their potential across a wide range of subjects and qualifications, from Entry Level 1 to Level 3—including Functional Skills and GCSE English and Maths.

Our students have unique strengths and challenges, encompassing various learning difficulties and disabilities. Your role will be essential in guiding them through their educational journey, supporting their studies, work placements, and, when needed, assisting with their welfare and personal care.

Why Choose Us?

• Work-Life Balance: Enjoy school holidays at home, no weekend commitments, and no night shifts!
• Rewarding Impact: Be part of a team that empowers students to overcome barriers and succeed in their aspirations.
• Supportive Environment: Collaborate with passionate educators and staff in a dynamic and inclusive college community.

If you’re ready to inspire, support, and make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you!

Alongside our priority of excellent student experience, we also focus on our employees. Here are just some of our benefits when working for the East Kent Colleges Group:

Are You Ready to Make a Difference?

Do you have strong communication skills, a talent for behavior management, and a passion for inspiring students to embrace learning? If you thrive under pressure and love empowering others, this role is perfect for you!

As a Learning Support Practitioner, you’ll play a vital role in supporting students with diverse and high-level needs. Whether it’s working with individuals who have visual or hearing impairments, global developmental delay, or language and communication difficulties, your dedication will help them overcome challenges and achieve success.

What You’ll Do:

• Work closely with small groups and individual students during lectures to provide tailored support.
• Help students with needs such as Autism Spectrum Condition, Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH), Global Learning Delay, Language & Communication challenges, and sensory or physical disabilities.
• Assist with personal care, mobility, and, where necessary, specific medical or feeding needs.

What You’ll Bring:

• Passion for working with students with complex needs.
• Experience with any of the above areas is a bonus, but don’t worry—full training will be provided!

This is more than just a job—it’s a chance to create lasting, meaningful change in students’ lives. Ready to step into a role where every day brings new opportunities to inspire and support? We’d love to hear from you!

Outstanding Ofsted Provider

East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our ‘Strong’ skills grading by Ofsted.

Commitment to Safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles.

As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults. These checks include conviction/caution self-declaration, Enhanced DBS check and obtaining sufficient referencing.

It is a criminal offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so.

If you are successful in being shortlisted to interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.

Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

East Kent Colleges Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of our communities. We are particularly keen to increase the diversity of our staff body and encourage applications from candidates where there is underrepresentation in our workforce.

We are proud to hold the Positive About Disability Award and are a Disability Confident Employer. This confirms our commitment to interviewing all applicants who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. With any successful candidate, we will explore any reasonable adjustments to a role due to a health needs or disability.

Similarly, we have a commitment to Care Leavers (Care Covenant Pledge) and to current or previous Armed Forces personnel (Armed Forces Covenant Pledge) with a commitment to interview applicants who meet the positions essential criteria and who have declared this on their application. 

We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.

We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.