Make a difference by supporting learners to succeed
We’re looking for a compassionate and motivated Learning Support Practitioner to join our Prison Education team. This is a rewarding opportunity to support learners with additional learning needs, helping them overcome barriers, build confidence, and achieve their potential.
Working alongside tutors and education staff, you’ll play an essential role in ensuring all learners receive tailored support to succeed in their studies and beyond.
What you’ll be doing
Learner Support & Engagement
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Build positive relationships with learners to understand their needs and support their learning journey
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Provide tailored, in-class or one-to-one support for learners with additional learning needs (ALN), including disabilities
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Inspire, motivate, and help learners develop confidence, independence, and self-advocacy skills
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Monitor learner wellbeing and check progress regularly through face-to-face reviews
Support Planning & Review
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Develop and maintain course-specific support plans aligned to the SEND graduated approach
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Review and update support plans regularly, including for learners transferring between establishments
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Use assessment tools (e.g. Do It Profiler) to inform tailored learning strategies
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Record and manage all support documentation accurately within MoJ systems
Collaboration & Inclusion
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Work closely with tutors, trainers, and prison teams to ensure effective support is in place
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Support a whole-prison approach to additional learning needs
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Engage with stakeholders such as healthcare teams and neurodiversity specialists
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Assist with reasonable adjustments for assessments where required
Environment & Compliance
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Maintain safe, inclusive, and engaging learning environments
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Ensure all work complies with prison security, safeguarding, and contractual requirements
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Support wider team delivery, including cover for student support roles as needed
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Contribute to achieving contractual targets and quality standards
What we’re looking for
Essential
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GCSE (or equivalent) Maths and English (Grade C or above)
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Experience supporting learners with SEND or additional learning needs
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Strong interpersonal and communication skills
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Ability to manage a caseload and maintain accurate records
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Knowledge of effective strategies for supporting ALN learners and SEND Code of Practice
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Organised, proactive, and able to work independently and as part of a team
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Good IT skills and administrative capability
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Passion for supporting learners to achieve and overcome barriers
Desirable
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Level 3 qualification in Supporting Individuals with Learning Disabilities (or willingness to achieve)
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Experience in prison or secure environments
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Awareness of OFSTED EIF
Why join us?
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Make a direct impact on learners’ lives by supporting inclusive education and rehabilitation
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Be part of a supportive and collaborative education team
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Develop your skills in SEND and prison education
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Access training and professional development opportunities
Our values
We’re looking for people who demonstrate:
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Customer First – supporting learners to improve their lives
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True North – acting with integrity
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Own It – taking accountability
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Improve to be the best – striving for excellence
Apply now
If you’re passionate about supporting learners and making education accessible to all, we’d love to hear from you.
Here at People Plus, we make a positive difference to people’s lives – every single day.
We use our experience to support hundreds of thousands of people each year. Our committed teams work across Britain to deliver a range of public services, including employment support, skills training, prison education, starting a business, and support to help employers grow.
To put it simply, we:
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Support people to find and keep jobs
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Help people to set up their own businesses
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Deliver skills training to further people’s careers
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Work with employers to build a skilled and happy workforce
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Rehabilitate people with convictions
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Tackle the root causes of offending
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Support carers
We are extremely proud to be a Gold accredited Investors in People organisation. This demonstrates our commitment to creating the very best environment and culture for our colleagues to succeed and thrive.
We are committed to transforming the lives of people with convictions through our work in prisons.
Our services have been designed to tackle the underlying causes of offending behaviour so people can make positive changes to their lives.
With more than 500 people working to support people with convictions in custody and in the community, we bring passion, experience and innovation to public sector rehabilitation services.
We also work with specialist partner organisations to help people move away from their past and look forward to a brighter future.
All of our services are designed in partnership with the people who we’re trying to help and away from our direct work with people serving their sentences, we’re working hard to change attitudes towards people who can often be tarnished unfairly following criminal convictions. Our Social Recruitment Framework brings together organisations to tackle any pre-conceived ideas about hiring people who have previously been involved in crime.
We also work with employers on the Ban the Box initiative to support fair and equal recruitment processes and have engaged industry to influence our employer-led curriculum delivered to our learners.
