Full Time - Permanent

40Hrs:

Mon - Fri

£33,252.40 per annum + Corporate Company Benefits

Key Purpose:

This is a management role in an establishment. The post holder will be responsible for leading on support for prison residents with needs arising from neurodivergence.

Developing and implementing, through close collaboration with stakeholders, a "whole system" principle is of paramount importance, with the focus firmly on supporting individuals to achieve and progress through Education, Skill and Work pathways throughout their sentence. The Neurodiversity Support Manager (NSM) will liaise with

the Learning and Skills Manager (LSM) and the education provider to ensure prisoners are supported, whether engaged with education or not, and that they continue to be supported in the community, including by the probation teams.

Key accountabilities:

Focus on improving and ensuring that the quality of neurodiversity support andprovision across ESW is at least good and moving towards outstanding. This is to include assessment of quality to inform the prison education, skills and work improvement plan which can be applied across various learning channels, e.g. classroom, industries, work areas, workshops, gym etc.

Develop and maintain Neurodiversity needs strategy for the establishment, incorporating and working with key stakeholders. This should include as a minimum: Head of Learning & Skills and Head of Reducing Reoffending (HoRR), Provider education and/or curriculum managers (including regional leads), Employment lead, New Futures Network (NFN) broker, Prison Work Coach, Head of Offender Management Unit, libraries, Information Advice and Guidance (IAG), activities, gym, industries manager, key worker.

Manage the collection and collating Neurodivergent data at local level. Continually analyse and evaluate current practice for how neurodiversity provision is tailored to the needs of a wide range of prisoners, including those who are hard to reach, vulnerable prisoners, and those for whom English is not their first language.

Track the progress of prisoners with neurodiversity in education, learning and work (including kitchen, horticulture, waste management industries/workshops, wing work and orderly/peer roles), analyse data and identify any participation and achievement gaps and address these.

Essential Experience:

Detailed knowledge of OFSTED, HMP and EIF (Education Inspection Framework) and further education and skills criteria.

Experience of operation in a specialist neurodiversity role.

Experience of within the Special Educational Needs/ Additional Learning Needs and Disabilities field.

Substantial teaching experience that has developed a range of strategies for developing accessible and appropriate resources to match the specific learning needs of individuals / cohorts of learner.

Essential Qualification:

• PGCE, Cert Ed or Level 5 in Education and Training
• Relevant degree
• Level 4 Certificate in Supporting the learning of learners with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND)/ Additional Learning Needs (ALN)
• Alternatively: Extensive relevant work experience of working with Neurodiverse learners in a custodial setting.

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