The Role:
To meet the increasing demand for our first class support we are expanding our team of specialist support consultants.
The Amano approach gives:
- Student focussed assistance
- Academic assistance towards goals and aspirations
- Hassle-free arrangements
- Student choice and empowerment
- Flexibility in delivery
- Adaptable support for changing needs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide effective assistance to students in a higher education setting
- Work with students who may face barriers to learning due to a variety of mental health and/or autistic spectrum conditions
- Work with your student to identify strategies to help address barriers and to move towards independent learning
- Provide support that is student specific and could include activities such as time management, planning, coping with anxiety and stress situations and prioritising workload
- Work to enhance your student’s autonomy and to monitor the effectiveness of strategies
- Be responsible for organising sessions with your assigned students
- Offer assistance on campus, in-home, or remotely as agreed with your student
- Be required to complete Amano administration promptly and accurately
- Follow Amano safeguarding, health and safety, lone working, and professional and personal boundaries policies
Essential Skills and Experience
- Have experience of working with students with disabilities and/or people with mental health or ASC related difficulties
- Be able to assess a student’s needs and with them establish an appropriate Individual Support Plan
- Understand the needs, goals, and constraints of others.
- Have comprehension of the particular demands of study in higher education
- Be able to clearly assess when a referral or ‘signpost’ to another service is required
- Have the ability to plan, prioritise and organise your own workload
- Have excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
- Have a good understanding and ability in using mobile IT
- Be proactive in maintaining your CPD.
Mandatory Qualification for Specialist Mentor (ASC)
You will be educated to degree level AND you must have comprehensive training in supporting adults with autism which could include:
All 6 National Autistic Society (NAS) core autism online training modules (Understanding autism; autism and communication; autism, stress and anxiety; autism: supporting families, autism and sensory experience; autism: Women and Girls) AND
‘Introduction to autism and the SPELL framework in Higher Education’ OR
Optimum Student Support training course: Autism and ADHD in Higher Education: Recognising and addressing the barriers through Non-Medical Helper (NMH) Mentoring and Study Skills Strategies OR
Onyx Student Support training course: Intermediate Supporting ADHD and Autistic Students in Higher Education’ course. In addition to the Onyx course, you will also need to undertake National Autistic Society (NAS) Women and girls online training module
Mandatory Qualifications for Specialist Mentor (Mental Health)
You will be educated to degree level and must have membership of (at least) one of the following organisations at the required level:
- Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) - Full member.
- The British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) - Accredited membership.
- The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
- Registered Member (MBACP)
- Accredited Member (MBACP - Accred)
- British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) - Under a member institution - Practitioners become registrants of the BPC through their membership of one of their member institutions. They do not have a category for individual membership.
- British Psychological Society (BPS) - Chartered Member (CPsychol)/IAPT register/ Graduate Member (MBPsS) AND a PG qualification in Psychology or Mental Health.
- Counselling & Psychotherapy in Scotland (COSCA) – Accredited (Other UK Professional body) Counsellor/Psychotherapist Member of COSCA This category of membership requires you to be currently accredited with another recognised UK professional body for counselling and psychotherapy
- Federation of Drug and Alcohol Practitioners (FDAP) - National Counsellor Accreditation Certificate (NCAC)
- General Medical Council (GMC) - Psychiatry – Full member or above.
- Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) - Education and training programmes approved as a route to registration - Arts Therapist/ Occupational Therapist/ Practitioner Psychologist/ Social Worker in England
- Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP) - Accredited member
- National Counselling Society (NCS) –
- Accredited Registrants (MNCS Accred).
- Accredited Professional Registrant (MNCS Prof Accred).
- Senior Accredited Registrant status (MNCS Snr Accred).
- NCS Fellowship (FNCS).
- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) - Mental Health Nurse/ Community Mental Health Nurse / Psychiatric Nurse
- Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC)
- Social Care Wales (SCW)
- Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NISCC)
- UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) - Full clinical individual member
- The University Mental Health Advisers Network (UMHAN) – UMHAN mentor member. (N.B. UMHAN accreditation routes are now closed).
- Association of Christian Counsellors (UK) - Accredited Counsellor
Mandatory Qualifications for Specialist ASC Study Skills Tutors
You will be educated to degree level AND hold a teaching qualification AND you must have comprehensive training in supporting adults with autism which could include:
All 6 National Autistic Society (NAS) core autism online training modules (Understanding autism; autism and communication; autism, stress and anxiety; autism: supporting families, autism and sensory experience; autism: Women and Girls) AND
‘Introduction to autism and the SPELL framework in Higher Education’ OR
Optimum Student Support training course: Autism and ADHD in Higher Education: Recognising and addressing the barriers through Non-Medical Helper (NMH) Mentoring and Study Skills Strategies OR
Onyx Student Support training course: Intermediate Supporting ADHD and Autistic Students in Higher Education’ course. In addition to the Onyx course, you will also need to undertake National Autistic Society (NAS) Women and girls online training module
Mandatory Qualifications for Specialist SpLD Study Skills Tutors
You will be educated to degree level and must have current professional membership of one of the following organisations:
- PATOSS (full or associate membership)
- BDA (full professional membership)
- PASSHE (professional membership)
- Dyslexia Guild (member, associate or fellow membership)
What Amano offer you:
A rewarding and flexible role
Be part of a professional and friendly team
Comprehensive CPD (Continuing Professional Development)
Competitive rates of pay
Innovative, easy-to-use Amano App
Flexibility to work around you during sociable hours
Adds experience and depth to your CV
We will provide training on working with people with disabilities and on how to support their needs.
If you are interested, please contact us at [email protected] with your CV for a discussion about the role.
Job Type: Freelance
Pay: £34.02 per hour
Application question(s):
- Are you able to provide face-to-face support to students in Portsmouth?
- Do you hold any of the adult autism training and/or membership to one of the listed organisations within the job description? Autism training and Membership are mandatory requirements for the roles and must be held.
Education:
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Location:
- Portsmouth PO1 (required)
Work Location: In person
