Pastoral Support Advisor - ESOL

Cambridge Regional College is seeking an enthusiastic and compassionate Pastoral Support Advisor – ESOL to join our Student Services team. This rewarding role focuses on supporting ESOL learners, including refugees, asylum seekers and Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC), helping them successfully engage in education, build confidence and navigate life in the UK. In addition, you will support the Pastoral Support Advisors when you are not directly working with the ESOL students.

You will join us on a full time (37 hours), term time only basis and in return you will receive a competitive salary of between £27,032 - £28,813 per annum, equivalent to a full year salary of £31,110 - £33,160 per annum, plus staff benefits.

About the role:

You would be supporting ESOL learners 4 days a week and EHCP & High Needs students 1 day a week, empowering them so that they can fully access the curriculum and successfully achieve their programme of study. Many of the students you will work with will have complex needs.

You will:

• Provide a daily 1:1 drop-in service and group ‘lunch club’
• Provide responsive emotional crisis intervention
• Provide a safe, supported and structured alternative space during unstructured times.
• Manage a case load of students, prioritising cases where necessary, and to provide appropriate advice, guidance, information, support and mentoring
• Support learners to access financial support including bursary funding
• Support learners to access external support where required
• Work collaboratively within the departments and across the college

Cambridge Regional College is a large and inspirational centre of learning with Campuses in Cambridge and Huntingdon. We have outstanding teaching and leisure facilities and a reputation for excellence in a number of fields. Our campus facilities are among the best in the country, and you’ll find a modern teaching environment with lots of energy and interaction. CRC is a college to be proud of and to be in.

In addition, we value our staff as we understand they make the difference in transforming lives, our investment in our staff has been formally recognised in being accredited with Investors in People Gold status.

Just some of the rewards you can benefit from joining our staff, include:

• Generous holiday leave entitlement plus bank holidays

• Generous pension scheme

• Discounted rates on Apple products

• Free gym membership option and discounted classes

• Discounted rates on college courses

• BUPA Health Expenses cash plan and Occupational Health services

• Free on-site car parking

• Exclusive discounts for high street and online stores with Rewards@CRC

• On site restaurants, retail and coffee outlets (Costa Coffee at Cambridge Campus and Starbucks at Huntingdon Campus)

• Free independent telephone counselling service with our Employee Assistant Programme

• Staff Development opportunities.

What we are looking for in our role:

Enthusiasm and energy are key to this role. We seek an individual with a “get up and go” approach.

• Recent and extensive demonstrable experience of working with young people and adults from a variety of age ranges within an FE setting or other institution (education, healthcare, social services). To include vulnerable young people adults, asylum seekers or ESOL learners, those with EHCP’s and special education needs, with positive outcomes
• Knowledge and experience of working with relevant external support organisations
• Empathy, emotional intelligence and good interpersonal skills
• A strong understanding of trauma-informed practice and the barriers faced by vulnerable learners
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent motivating, influencing and negotiation skills
• Excellent organisational skills and able to use own initiative
• Good understanding of safeguarding issues which young people face
• A high degree of motivation and drive
• Patience, non-judgemental and culturally sensitive
• Innovation and be able to ‘think outside the box’

To apply, you must have:

• GCSE English and Maths Grade 4/c or above, or equivalent
• Experience working with vulnerable young people and adults including ESOL learners

Safeguarding statement

Cambridge Regional College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Therefore, we expect all workers and employees to share this commitment.