Neurodiversity and Reading Specialist at PeoplePlus · Thetford…

The Neurodiversity & Reading Specialist will work collaboratively with tutors, peer mentors, and key stakeholders to support prisoners with additional learning needs (ALN), disabilities, neurodiverse needs, and low-level reading abilities who are engaging in prison education.

The post holder will provide specialist support to learners throughout their educational journey, delivering targeted interventions, developing individual support plans and reading profiles, promoting inclusive and accessible learning, and ensuring learners receive the support required to achieve their academic, vocational, and personal development goals.

This role contributes to the contractual obligations of the Prison Education Service, supporting learners through screening, assessment, intervention, review cycles, and ongoing learner support while fostering a positive culture of learning, literacy, and reading for pleasure.

Here at People Plus, we make a positive difference to people’s lives – every single day.

We use our experience to support hundreds of thousands of people each year. Our committed teams work across Britain to deliver a range of public services, including employment support, skills training, prison education, starting a business, and support to help employers grow.

To put it simply, we:

• Support people to find and keep jobs
• Help people to set up their own businesses
• Deliver skills training to further people’s careers
• Work with employers to build a skilled and happy workforce
• Rehabilitate people with convictions
• Tackle the root causes of offending
• Support carers

We are extremely proud to be a Gold accredited Investors in People organisation. This demonstrates our commitment to creating the very best environment and culture for our colleagues to succeed and thrive.

We are committed to transforming the lives of people with convictions through our work in prisons.

Our services have been designed to tackle the underlying causes of offending behaviour so people can make positive changes to their lives.
With more than 500 people working to support people with convictions in custody and in the community, we bring passion, experience and innovation to public sector rehabilitation services.

We also work with specialist partner organisations to help people move away from their past and look forward to a brighter future.

All of our services are designed in partnership with the people who we’re trying to help and away from our direct work with people serving their sentences, we’re working hard to change attitudes towards people who can often be tarnished unfairly following criminal convictions. Our Social Recruitment Framework brings together organisations to tackle any pre-conceived ideas about hiring people who have previously been involved in crime.

We also work with employers on the Ban the Box initiative to support fair and equal recruitment processes and have engaged industry to influence our employer-led curriculum delivered to our learners.