Education, SEND & Neurodiversity Practitioners
Full-time and part-time opportunities | Gloucester
Due to increasing demand for the DRHL approach, we are growing our team and looking for exceptional practitioners who want to make a genuine difference to neurodivergent children and young people.
We are deliberately keeping this opportunity broad.
You might be a teacher, tutor, SEND practitioner, learning mentor, pastoral practitioner, HLTA or experienced education professional.
We are less interested in your job title and more interested in who you are, what you can bring to our young people, and whether you share our belief that education can be different.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
You will need to have real experience of working with neurodivergent children and young people and understand that the same approach does not work for everyone.
Strong experience of working with primary-aged children is essential. Experience and confidence working across the wider 6-18 age range would be a real advantage.
Just as importantly, we are looking for people who are:
- Reliable and consistent, because relationships and trust matter
- Versatile and adaptable, able to respond to the individual young person
- Warm, engaging and able to build positive relationships
- Creative and willing to think differently about education
- Confident working both independently and collaboratively
- Genuine team players who value the expertise of others
- Curious about what sits behind behaviour, engagement and learning
- Passionate about helping young people recognise their strengths and achieve their potential
- Comfortable working with young people whose educational journey may not have been straightforward
WHAT MAKES DRHL DIFFERENT?
At DRHL, we believe the young person comes first.
Our practitioners work with neurodivergent children and young people accessing EOTIS/C packages, exceptional provision and school-commissioned support, including young people who need a different approach to help them re-engage with education and learning.
We work alongside local authorities, schools and families, bringing people together around the young person and asking:
What does this young person need to feel safe, engage, learn and move forward?
Learning at DRHL is personalised, interest-led and delivered in creative, multisensory ways.
We want young people to feel that learning is something they are part of, rather than something that is simply being done to them.
We start with the young person's strengths, interests, needs and aspirations, building trusting relationships and finding meaningful routes back into learning.
Our approach is educational and holistic. We recognise that learning, wellbeing, relationships, confidence and emotional safety are interconnected.
For some young people, a traditional educational environment has not worked.
That does not mean they cannot learn. It means we need to find the way they can.
And that is where brilliant practitioners make the difference.
DRHL is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
In accordance with our safer recruitment procedures, any offer of employment will be subject to appropriate pre-employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references, identity checks and evidence of the right to work in the UK.
We are committed to creating a safe, inclusive environment for the children and young people we support, and safeguarding is at the heart of our practice.
Perhaps you are an experienced primary teacher who wants the freedom to work more creatively.
Perhaps your strengths lie in SEND, mentoring, therapeutic or pastoral approaches.
Perhaps you are an experienced practitioner who loves working 1:1 or with small groups and seeing the moment when a young person begins to believe in themselves and their ability to learn again.
Or perhaps you bring a combination of skills that does not fit neatly into a traditional job description.
We would still like to hear from you.
We are particularly interested in practitioners who can take a young person's interests and turn them into meaningful opportunities for learning, while still understanding the importance of educational progression.
You need to be comfortable thinking beyond a conventional classroom lesson.
At DRHL, learning might be 1:1, small group, practical, academic, creative, sensory or interest-led, depending upon what enables that individual young person to engage and progress.
The relationship comes first. Engagement follows. Learning grows from there.
WHAT WE CAN OFFER
- Full-time and part-time opportunities
- Competitive hourly rates and salaries
- Varied, meaningful and rewarding work
- Opportunities to work with children and young people across different ages and stages
- A collaborative and holistic working environment
- The opportunity to bring your own strengths, experience, creativity and interests to your work
- The chance to work alongside a wider team supporting young people's education and wellbeing
- The opportunity to develop creative and individualised approaches to learning
- And, most importantly, the chance to make a genuine difference
COULD THIS BE YOU?
You do not need to fit into a perfect box.
But you do need to understand neurodivergent young people, be reliable, be adaptable, work brilliantly as part of a team and genuinely want to make a difference.
If you have ever worked with a young person who is struggling to engage with education and thought:
"There has to be another way."
...you might be exactly the person we are looking for.
COME AND BE PART OF THE NEXT CHAPTER AT DRHL.
Full-time and part-time opportunities available in Gloucester.
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Contact Details:
David Rees Holistic Learning Recruitment Team
