Study Skills

Responsibilities include: 

  • Delivering individual study skills support that is tailored to each student's needs. 

  • Helping students develop practical strategies for planning, organisation, time management and independent study. 

  • Supporting students with academic reading, note-taking, essay planning, report writing and research techniques. 

  • Assisting students to improve memory, attention, information processing and executive functioning skills where appropriate. 

  • Working collaboratively with students to create realistic goals and review progress throughout the academic year. 

  • Encouraging confidence, independence and self-advocacy within higher education. 

  • Creating strategies with students around organisation, managing deadlines and workload, while helping to implement action plans to stay on track with studies

  • Arranging and managing your own appointments with allocated students. 

  • Delivering support online or on campus (at another agreed location with the student - this might include home for students who are distance learning). 

  • Completing session records (timesheets) and administrative tasks accurately and within required timescales. 

  • Always maintaining professional standards, including safeguarding, confidentiality, health and safety, lone working and professional boundaries

Apply with a CV and brief cover letter via email: hello@aspacetothrive.com

SpLD Study Skills

You will need to be educated to degree level and must hold current professional membership of one of the following organisations.

  • PATOSS (full or associate membership)

  • BDA (full professional membership)

  • ADSHE (professional membership)

  • Dyslexia Guild (member, associate or fellow membership)

The criteria for the membership require a certain level of qualification or training in Dyslexia or SpLD’s.

Please check the DfE's qualifications matrix to ensure you hold the appropriate qualification level and training for the ASC and SpLD study skills roles.

Qualifications Matrix

ASC Study Skills

Essential Qualifications and Training: Hold a degree AND a teaching qualification AND comprehensive training in adult autism, as well as one or more of the following.

  • ALL 6 National Autistic Society (NAS) core autism online training modules

  • Optimum Student Support NON-MEDICAL HELPER (NMH) SKILLS TRAINING COURSE: Mentoring and Study Skills and Strategy Support for autistic and ADHD students in HE

  • An NAS tutor-led course ‘Understanding Autism’ or ‘Introduction to Autism and the SPELL Framework’

  • Other training, delivered by an appropriately qualified trainer (a qualified trainer from a recognised organisation/charity, or a trainer who can demonstrate a relevant qualification in Autism)

  • ADHD and Autism in Higher Education: Recognising and Addressing the Barriers

OR - Holds a relevant teaching qualification and a postgraduate MA or PHD qualification in a relevant subject and one or more of the training as above.

Qualifications Matrix