Therapeutic Education Practitioner
Do you have a background in SEMH, SEBD or ASD? Have you had experience with challenging behaviour? Do you have Team Teach or MAPA training? Have you covered lessons? Experience tutoring or teaching small groups?
This specialist school based in West Drayton, Hillingdon is looking for a special needs Therapeutic Education practitioner with experience of working with challenging children and young people. This is a specialist SEMH school that caters for young people who have been excluded or are at risk of being excluded from a mainstream school.
Therapeutic Education practitioners must have experience working with mental health problems and complex SEN needs. This school believes that all young people should be provided with appropriate education in a safe, stable, and containing learning environment.
Special needs Therapeutic Education practitioners will be working with secondary-aged pupils who have SEMD and SEBD troubled behaviour. Some students are academic, and they range from KS2 to KS4.
Therapeutic Education practitioners are given opportunities to succeed through the use of highly personalised individual education plans to help support their students. This role starts ASAP.
Responsibilities:
1. Excellent behaviour management skills.
2. Build positive relationships with young people and staff.
3. Teach/cover a range of lessons when needed.
4. Good knowledge/experience working with children with SEMH within a special needs environment.
5. Experience working with secondary-aged pupils.
6. Collaborate with the classroom teacher to define appropriate activities for the pupils in relation to the curriculum.
7. Assess children who have long or short-term learning difficulties and work with colleagues to identify individual pupils' special needs.
8. Liaise with other professionals, such as social workers, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, and educational psychologists.
This is a full-time/long-term position and will lead to permanent if successful. Skills and experience required are as follows:
1. SEN
2. EBD
3. Mental Health experience
4. ASD
5. Excellent behaviour management
6. Current DBS on the update service
7. Classroom experience
8. Working with primary or secondary
9. Experience teaching a range of subjects
The school offers:
1. A committed and enthusiastic staff.
2. Quality professional development.
3. An exciting opportunity to shape the future of the school and to set the culture for achievement and progress for all of the pupils.
4. A purposeful, happy, and supportive environment with learning for all at its centre.
If you engage the students in a positive way, this will be a very satisfying role, which would look great on your CV.
TLTP Group is an Equal Opportunities employer. Subject to observance of all UK and EU current legislation, we shall not discriminate to exclude individuals on the grounds of age, race, colour, gender (birth or reassigned), sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief, marital status, ethnic or national origin, health, pregnancy, childcare responsibilities, or criminal records. Candidates from such groups are actively encouraged to apply.
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