VONNE (Voluntary Organisations' Network North East)
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Canada
30 Oct
VONNE (Voluntary Organisations' Network North East)
Canada
Contract Type: Permanent
Role Type: Employment
Hours: Full time
Application deadline: Friday, November 13, 2026 - 16:30
Based: Newcastle
Salary: £24,935 Pro Rata
Salary Type: Fixed Salary
Location: Tyne and Wear
Role description: Officer
Experienced Learning Disability Skills practitioner, with background in delivering training sessions to small groups of adults required. This is a permanent post based at our Newcastle Hub. Sessions are delivered both on site and in the wider community.
The sessions are designed to teach independent living and employment skills, health & wellbeing management to adults with intellectual (learning) disability and are ASDAN accredited. These are adults with conditions from birth impacting cognitive development with high associated sensory and physical co-morbidity. Conditions such as Down's, Prader-Willi cerebral palsy, Sotos and Williams Syndromes.
Experience And Qualifications Required
- Experience teaching or training small groups of adults with additional needs within community (not home-based) settings.
- Experience delivering travel training sessions.
- Experience of planning and delivering differentiation, and robust understanding of Easy Read format
- Qualifications: training, coaching or teaching qualification (upper secondary, FE/Adult Ed)
- Enhanced DBS with full barring check for Adult Services: on the update service Recent Safeguarding Adults Level 1 or 2 training
- We will consider applicants from military backgrounds where a significant element of responsibilities has involved coaching or training groups of service personnel.
- Please note that these roles are not suitable for workers from 'care' settings: we do not deliver any personal care, CQC-regulated services.
- Please note that these roles are not suitable for teachers/TAs trained and working at primary or lower secondary level. We deliver Adult Services, the majority of our Clients within the 25 - 45 age range.