One-To-One Full time Teacher KeyWorker Windsor Berkshire

This family are seeking a dedicated and inspiring Teacher/Support Worker to teach, support, and care for a young female adult with SEN, on a one-to-one basis, across her home, Alternative Provision, and community settings. This role would suit a qualified primary teacher (Key Stage 2) with SEN experience or a qualified teacher working at a Specialist Secondary School (teaching Entry Level Functional Skills). The role offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful difference to a young person’s life by designing and teaching a tailored and bespoke Entry Level Functional Skills and life skills programme, combining educational learning with practical life and independence skills.

You will work as part of the young person’s Alternative Provision multi-disciplinary team, working alongside speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, art therapy, and counselling psychology. You will also help and support the young person to participate in fun and engaging activities in the local community and at home. You will provide one-to-one support, care, and safeguarding across all settings.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop a steadfast and trusted relationship with the young person rooted in genuine empathy, deep intuition, and compassionate understanding.
• Facilitate the young person’s personal development by fostering self-esteem, self-advocacy, a strong sense of identity, and trust in their potential.
• Advocate for the young person when needed.
• Be pro-active and determined to ensure that the young person’s needs are met.
• Provide holistic support: prioritise emotional wellbeing, communication, social interaction, and independence and life skills.
• Help the young adult to develop the practical skills necessary for everyday life and further education.
• Develop a thorough understanding of the young person’s likes and dislikes, interests, and needs, and embed these into the young person’s everyday teaching, activities, support, and care.
• Research Entry Level Functional Skills examination boards and qualifications.
• Plan and deliver tailored one-to-one Entry Level Functional Skills lessons including English, Maths, and subjects such as Cooking, Art, Science, ICT ensuring that all lessons are accessible, engaging, relevant to person’s needs and abilities, and in line with the person’s overall life goals as they move into young adulthood.
• Tailor teaching strategies to meet the young person’s needs.
• Encourage and support the young adult to learn and develop through having fun, tailoring and delivering curriculum, content, and activities to tie in with their passions, interests, and hobbies.
• Assess and monitor performance.
• Prepare the young person for accreditation, working towards functional skills qualifications and other appropriate accreditations.
• Incorporate community activities into the young person’s day-to-day life and weekly programme.
• Develop a collaborative and positive working relationship with the young person, the Alternative Provision multi-disciplinary team, and family.
• Drive the young person to/from all settings. A car will be provided.
• Always provide the young adult with safeguarding across all settings.

Essential Skills and Traits

• An ability to build steadfast, consistent, and trusted relationships with the young adult with additional needs.
• A genuine desire and passion to understand, support, develop, care, and advocate for the young adult on a 1:1 basis across all settings (Home, Community, and Alternative Provision).
• Genuine trust, empathy, intuition, reliability, consistency, confidence, inspirational, intelligence, care, respect, a young and fun-loving outlook, a passion for helping and developing others.
• An experienced and qualified Key Stage 2 primary teacher with additional SEN experience or an experienced and qualified specialist secondary school teacher teaching Entry Level Functional Skills.
• Candidates should have a relevant and recognised QTS or QTLS qualification such as PGCE, Cert Ed, or Level 5 DET.
• Ability, experience, and confidence to assess the young person’s learning levels, abilities, and interests; to select Entry Level Functional Skills board qualifications and modules in collaboration with the family and multi-disciplinary team.
• A genuine love of learning through fun, incorporating interests, hobbies and creativity into lessons and activities.
• A passion and commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable young adults.
• Ideally, an understanding of SEND needs including speech and language disorders, selective mutism, anxiety and sensory disorder.
• A relaxed, happy, gentle, positive, and motivating demeanour; someone who has a young outlook, enjoys having fun and living life.
• Genuinely self-motivated, enjoys and can work independently but also enjoys collaboration and working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Have own car to get to and from employment and a full clean UK driving license with minimum 3 years driving experience after passing driving license.
• A car will be provided during working hours.

Location: Windsor Berkshire
Minimum Experience Level for this job: 2+ years in a similar role
Training and Qualifications needed for this job: Candidates should have a relevant and recognised QTS or QTLS qualification such as PGCE, Cert Ed, or Level 5 DET.
Days and Hours

• Days: Monday - Friday
• Hours: 48 hours per week Monday to Friday (including rest breaks), approx. 8.30am-5.30pm

Compensation and Other Details

• Pay: £40K-£60K+ Competitive salary offered depending on candidate’s qualifications, suitability, and experience
• Driver: Yes and a car is provided on duty
• Pets in the home: one friendly dog

This is a permanent Teacher/Key Worker position.

Application

To apply for this job please contact Philippa on 01635 36465 or 07988 908231 or send an up to date version of your CV to: mailto:Philippa@harmonyathome.co.uk

P J Day Limited T/A Harmony at Home Berkshire acting as an Employment Agency. This is a fixed term position. Please apply via the Apply for job button.

This job has an ID code of: 877473

Notes

Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive, you will only be contacted for shortlisting and interview if you meet our client’s suitability requirements. For all roles with children and the vulnerable you must have an up-to-date enhanced DBS certificate which is registered on the update service, a 12 hour Paediatric First Aid Certificate and a minimum of 2 professional referees who are happy for you to share their contact details to our recruiters. One of your references must be your current or last employer and both references must be immediately contactable.

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