Therapeutic Education Practitioner

Overview

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?

About the School

This specialist school based in East London are looking for a special needs Therapeutic Education practitioner with experience of working with challenging children and young people. This is a specialist PRU school that caters for young people who have been excluded or at risk of being excluded from a mainstream school.

Role and Environment

T herapeutic Education practitioners will have the opportunity to work in this outstanding school with an international reputation in special education expertise, curriculum and resources. 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, containing learning environment. Special needs Therapeutic Education practitioners will be working with secondary aged pupils who have SEMD, SEBD and 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. The Therapeutic Education Department works closely with the nurses, doctors and therapists at the centre and with a wide range of professionals in the community.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the classroom teacher to define appropriate activities for the pupils in relation to the curriculum.
• Assess children who have long or short-term learning difficulties and work with colleagues to identify individual pupils\’ special needs.
• Liaise with other professionals, such as social workers, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists and educational psychologists.
• Be able to teach/cover a range of lessons when needed and maintain excellent behaviour management.
• Build positive relationships with young people and staff.
• Work with students who have SEMH within a Special Needs environment and with secondary aged pupils.

Requirements / Qualifications

• SEN experience
• EBD
• Mental Health experience
• ASD
• Excellent behaviour management
• Current DBS on the update service
• Classroom experience
• Experience working with primary or secondary
• Experience teaching a range of subjects

Benefits and Opportunities

• A committed and enthusiastic staff.
• Quality professional development.
• An exciting opportunity to shape the future of the school and to set the culture for achievement and progress for all of the pupils.
• 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.

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