Learning Disabilities Co-Trainer – Expert with Lived Experience

Role Description

Join Our Team as a Learning Disabilities Co-Trainer - Expert with Lived Experience

Location:

Position available across all SeeAbility regions (Oxfordshire, Bristol, Devon, Hampshire, Surrey and Kent)

Salary

£13.20 per hour + Benefits

Hours And Contract

Various- Part time, Bank

Do You Have Learning Disability

We are looking for people who have learning disabilities and want to share their experience of living with learning disability while getting paid

What you will do

As a Learning Disability Lived Experience Co-trainer, You Will

• Share you real life experience
• Help our colleagues across SeeAbility understand how to support people with learning disabilities better while delivering Oliver McGowan mandatory training.
• Talk about what help and what does not help.
  
  

You will be working together with another trainer who will help and support you during training sessions

SeeAbility is a charity that supports people with learning disabilities, autism and sight loss in the UK. We are looking for someone to be part of our team as an Oliver McGowan mandatory training expert.

What Skills You Will Need

• Personal experience living with learning disability
• To be comfortable talking in groups and sharing your story
• To believe that everyone should be treated fairly and with respect
• A friendly and open approach
• To work well with others as part of a team
• Ability to travel as part of your role
• Ability to be part of a training session for 3 hours at a time
  
  

About Us

Registered as The Royal School for the Blind, SeeAbility is one of the oldest disability charities in the UK having pioneered specialist support across multiple generations since 1799!

We specialise in supporting people who have learning disabilities, autism, complex needs, who may also have sight loss. Our support ranges from providing person-centred support across our many supported-living and residential care provisions. Furthermore, we provide specialist eye-care services to children and adults alike and assists people with a disability to find paid employment for the very first time.

SeeAbility provides the resources and expertise that make this possible, we support people to live ambitious lives and achieve things they never thought possible.

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Our Benefits

• Discounts and cashback at hundreds of shops, restaurants and activities

Eligible for Blue Light Card discounts

Save 10% on monthly bus travel

Pay reviews and commitment to pay competitive rates

Employer contributory pension scheme - Support and tools to help you make the right decisions about your future

Refer a friend and receive £600

Paid DBS and renewals

Season ticket loans

Safer Recruitment

SeeAbility is committed to safe and fair recruitment practices, safeguarding and protecting those who we support. It is a condition of employment that perspective employees will be subject to the following

• A criminal background check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (where appropriate).
• Documentary evidence to confirm your identity, current address, and the right to work in the UK.
• Health Declaration to ensure that you are medically suitable for the role you have been offered.
• References will be obtained to ensure satisfactory evidence of conduct in current or previous employment concerned with the provision of services relating to (a) health or social care, or (b) children or vulnerable adults.
  
  

These checks will be carried out and completed prior offering a date to start employment at SeeAbility’ s expense.

Diversity

SeeAbility is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from individuals of all identities, including those from underrepresented groups and those who have a disability or neurodivergent condition.

We believe a diverse workforce drives innovation, creativity, and success. Everyone’s unique experiences and views are appreciated, and their opinion valued. We are happy to offer any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or the role itself to ensure a fair and equitable experience for all candidates.

In exceptional circumstances, the exempt from the Equality Act 2010 (Schedule 9, Part 1) which provides for the application of a genuine occupational requirement.