Job Description

Day Time Support Worker

Due to the term-time salary this role we CANNOT offer visa sponsorship for this role.

40 hours per week, 37 weeks per year (Term Time Only)

FTE 25,494 per annum(if over the age of 21)

Pro rata, term time only actual salary

20,805

Based at Argent College, Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham

The post holder will be required to promote and ensure the safety, care and well-being, learning and development of the students to enable their growth in confidence and social and practical skills.

The key duties in this role will include:

The supervision and support of students throughout the college day, both in sessions and free time; To encourage students to attend planned sessions and to help them become engaged in the curriculum activities; Completion of relevant paperwork as required; To support College safeguarding procedures by reporting quickly and effectively any disclosures to the College Safeguarding Team.
This is an exciting and innovative college run by Ruskin Mill Trust, which is a leading independent provider of specialist care and education for young people and adults with learning and complex needs. Situated right in the heart of Birmingham, The New Standard Works, which houses Argent College, is a Grade II Listed building on Vittoria Street in the Jewellery Quarter.

Argent College offers a diverse and exciting practical curriculum in which work education and vocation are linked in a continuum, to provide relevant and meaningful therapeutic learning experiences.

To undertake this position successfully, you will have:

Knowledge of specialist education; Experience of working with learners with learning difficulties and / or learning disabilities and challenging behaviour; Excellent communication and organisational skills.
A flexible and professional approach to work is required.

For over 35 years, Ruskin Mill Trust has delivered an innovative Practical Skills Therapeutic Education (PSTE) curriculum method to children and adults with complex needs, including autistic spectrum conditions and other learning differences and disabilities. Inspired by Aonghus Gordon using the insights of Rudolf Steiner, John Ruskin and William Morris, the PSTE method centres around heritage craft and land activities, working with hand, head, heart and place to provide students with the tools to transform material and in doing so transform themselves.

The Trust offers significant personal development opportunities to work within a holistic organisation that is complex and growing, and attracts those with an outstanding commitment to excellence.

Working at Ruskin Mill Trust is incredibly rewarding; we offer competitive salaries and holiday allowances, an auto-enrolment pension scheme with a salary sacrifice option, a health cash plan and employee assistance programme via Medicash.

In addition, staff receive valuable training opportunities including an in-depth interactive induction to enable our new team members to experience our Practical Skills Therapeutic Education (PSTE) curriculum and also opportunities for further training and academic research including our own MSc in Practical Skills Therapeutic Education.

Full details of our benefits can be viewed on www.rmt.org/careers

A completed application is required for consideration of this role, please visit https://rmt.org/careers/

The post is subject to satisfactory references, an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check for both adults and children, a medical check, evidence of qualifications, and verification of the right to work in the UK. Ruskin Mill Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

INDLP

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 25,494.00 per year

Shift:

8 hour shift Day shift
Work days:

Monday to Friday
Application question(s):

Due to the term-time salary we CANNOT offer visa sponsorship for this role. Do you require a Certificate of Sponsorship to work?
Experience:

Special education: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 29/05/2025
Reference ID: INDLP