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 Barking is looking for Therapeutic Education practitioners with experience of working with challenging children and young people. This is a specialist school that caters for young people who have been excluded or are at risk of being excluded from a mainstream school.

Summary Of Role

Therapeutic Education practitioners will have the opportunity to work in this SEMH school with an international reputation in special education expertise, curriculum and resources. Experience of working with hard to reach young people with SEMH/ACEs/ASD/Sensory and communication difficulties is essential. We are looking for candidates who are trauma informed with a mentoring/coaching/teaching background and an understanding of Therapeutic Education. Candidates should have the ability to build strong, meaningful and healthy relationships, maintain professional boundaries, and be resilient, solution focused, and reflective in their practice.

Full time (temporary long term) positions: 8.30:4.30 (Mon-Fri)

The role will entail:

• Working 1:1 with students in the community who are accessing one of the Curriculum Pathways (Engagement, Vocational, Academic).
• This is mainly a community based role with the expectation that TEPs will be flexible to travel to the hub at times with their students and travel around London to work with different students within their cluster groups.
• TEPs will be expected to attend the Therapy and Life skills Hub in Newham every Friday for CPD/meeting/resources.
• There is no private parking onsite (only pay and display). Travel expenses (during working hours) and lunch with students is included and will be reimbursed.

Skills

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 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.

This role starts ASAP. Therapeutic Education practitioners will need excellent behaviour management skills and be able to build positive relationships with young people and staff. They need to be able to teach/cover a range of lessons when needed and have good knowledge/experience working with children with SEMH within a special needs environment.

Therapeutic Education practitioners will need experience working with secondary aged pupils and will be collaborating with the classroom teacher to define appropriate activities for the pupils in relation to the curriculum. They will be assessing children who have long or short-term learning difficulties and working with colleagues to identify individual pupils' special needs. Liaising with other professionals, such as social workers, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, and educational psychologists is also required.

This is a full time/long term position and will lead to permanent if successful.

Students are located below:

• Borehamwood, WD6 Community and Hub based
• Hertford SG13, Community based
• Hemel Hempstead, HP2 Community and Hub based
• Uxbridge, UB3 Community Based
• West Watford, WD18 Community based
• Willesden, NW10