PURSUING INDEPENDENT PATHS

Bank worker

Role description & person specification

Please send a CV and the contact details of two referees, one of which must be your current or most recent
employer.

Title: Bank Learning Support Assistant
Accountable to:  PiP Managers
Accountable for:  PiP Students
Working hours: Agreed on a shift by shift basis
Salary: £13.85 p/h

Summary: Sessional Workers support PiP students, adults with learning disabilities, to access learning and
development sessions across four pathways:

-  Independent Living Skills
-  Employment and Training
-  Health and Wellbeing
-  Creative and Performing Arts

The role of a Bank Staff Sessional Worker is to support us during peaks in delivery, holiday cover, after-hours,
weekends and ad/hoc work.

You will be responsible for supporting sessions and activities to ensure the provision of high-quality learning
and development for our students, working closely with students in small groups and providing 1:1 support
to ensure they can actively participate and engage in sessions, giving them maximum opportunity to learn
and develop.

Through our Bank Worker scheme, shifts are offered according to service needs and your availability. Most
shifts are for a whole day and on occasion we have half day shifts. Bank Workers are free to take up or
decline each shift offered. Please be aware that there are no guaranteed hours of work as a Bank Worker.
The Bank Worker contract is not permanent of fixed.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Supporting adults with learning disabilities and neurodevelopmental disorders to participate and engage
in a flexible programme of learning and development and achieve their ambitions.

•  Working with students in small groups and 1:1 settings
•  Monitoring student progress and completing our in-house monitoring and evaluation tool.
•  Engaging students in health and wellbeing activities
•  Escorting students to external/community based activities to support them to achieve their ambitions
•  Supporting students to better engage and participate in the local community
•  Supporting students to participate and engage in programmes during holiday programmes.
•  Ensuring best practice with safeguarding and health and safety taken into account in all work
•  Shadowing PiP staff and learning the approach to session delivery
•  Acting under guidance and instruction to support learning sessions in a person-centred way

Supporting adults with learning disabilities to achieve their potential

Registered Charity No. 1088592

•  Promoting best practice by working within (and contributing to) the framework of PlP's policies and

procedures

•  Undertaking such other duties and tasks that fit with the wider work of the organisation.

  PERSON SPECIFICATION

 Experience and Knowledge

Essential

Desirable

Working with people with learning disabilities or a similar client group

Experience of supporting educational or group activities

Understanding of and commitment to a person-centred approach

Understanding of the risk assessment process, and development of
strategies to tackle identified risks

Knowledge of Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults (SOVA) processes

Supporting service users in a variety of settings, both internal and
external for example in the classroom, at home, in the community, at
work and on public transport

Skills and Abilities

The ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing

Can support high quality learning sessions for adults with learning
disabilities
Able to establish and maintain professional relationships, with a wide
variety professionals and carers
Effective and meaningful communication with students with complex
communication needs

Can communicate in Arabic or French

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 PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

A.  Passionate: about empowering adults with learning disabilities and neuro-developmental conditions

B.  Committed: to the aims and values of PIP: we expect all staff to uphold and reflect the ethos of the

Centre and all its work.

C.  Hardworking: as a small charity, our success depends on the hard work of all our people.

Supporting adults with learning disabilities to achieve their potential

Registered Charity No. 1088592

D.  Creative and resourceful: Ability to work with students with a range of learning, behavioural and

communication needs

E.  Practical: as part of a small team, you will need to have a positive collaborative outlook and the ability to

work across the organisation and with external stakeholders to achieve results.

F.  Confident: at ease interacting with the public, partners and delivering good customer service

G.  Approachable: an open, friendly approach is critical to the team spirit of our small staff and to be

sensitive to the needs of minority and vulnerable groups.

Supporting adults with learning disabilities to achieve their potential

Registered Charity No. 1088592