The Role:
To meet the increasing demand for our first class support we are expanding our team of specialist support consultants to support.
The Amano approach gives:
- Student focussed assistance.
- Academic support towards goals and aspirations
- Hassle-free arrangements
- Student choice and empowerment
- Flexibility in delivery
- Adaptable support for changing needs.
Key Duties :
- Provide effective assistance to students in a higher education setting
- Work with students who may face barriers to learning due to Autistic Spectrum Conditions and perhaps associated mental health conditions
- Address the issues which some students might have in acquiring, recalling and retaining information in written and spoken language
- Address issues associated with memory, organisational, attention and numeracy difficulties
- Work with your student to identify strategies to help address barriers
- Provide assistance that is student specific and could include activities such as study strategies, time management, structuring reports and essays, proof-reading techniques, and research strategies
- Work to enhance your student’s skills and to develop independent learning
- 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 ASD related difficulties
- Be able to assess a student’s needs and with them establish an appropriate Individual Support Plan
- Recognise the needs, goals, and constraints of others, but also have an awareness of a student’s strengths
- Have an appreciation of the particular demands of study in higher education
- Be able to clearly assess when a referral or ‘signpost’ to another service is required
- Ideally have a good working knowledge of assistive technologies (AT) and related AT study skills strategies
- Have the ability to plan, prioritise and organise your own workload
- Have excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
- Have good skills and ability in using mobile IT
- Be proactive in maintaining your CPD.
Mandatory Qualifications for Mental Health Mentor:
You be educated to degree level and will need to have membership of (at least) one of the following organisations at the level (s) indicated: -
- 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 ASC Study Skills Tutor:
Hold a degree AND a teaching qualification AND comprehensive training in adult autism which can include:
- ALL 6 National Autistic Society (NAS) core autism online training modules (Understanding Autism; Autism and Communication: Autism and Sensory Experience; Autism, Stress and Anxiety; Autism: Supporting families; Autism: Women and Girls) AND
- Have completed an NAS tutor-led course ‘Introduction to Autism and the SPELL Framework’ 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
- Other training, including at a Higher Education institution, delivered by an appropriately qualified trainer (a qualified trainer from a recognised organisation/charity, or a trainer who can demonstrate a relevant qualification in Autism)
OR
Hold a Post-Graduate Certificate in Autism / Post-Graduate Certificate in Asperger’s AND a teaching qualification (minimum Level 4).
Mandatory Qualifications for SpLD Study Skills Tutor:
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)
- ADSHE (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):
- Do you have a teaching qualification?
- Can you work face to face with students at Cardiff?
- Do you have comprehensive adult autism training listed in the job description?
- Do you hold a membership to one of the listed organisations for the MH Mentor and/or SpLD role?
Education:
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Location:
- Cardiff CF5 2YB (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Cardiff CF5 2YB
