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Community therapeutic education practitioners

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?

This specialist school based in East London (IG11) are looking for a community therapeutic education practitioners with experience of working with challenging children and young people.

This is a specialist school that caters for young people include depression, ASD, ADHD, Complex needs, obsessive compulsive disorder and attachment disorders and tier 4 mental health.

Community therapeutic education practitioners will have the opportunity to work in this outstanding school with an international reputation in special education expertise, curriculum and resources.

Community 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.

Community therapeutic education practitioners will be working with a secondary aged pupils who has SEMH.

Community 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 and interviews will be held next week.

Community therapeutic education practitioners will need excellent behaviour management skills
Be able to build positive relationships with young people and staff
Team Teach or similar restraint training certificate
Good knowledge/experience working with children with SEMH within an Special needs environment
Community therapeutic education practitioners will need experience working with secondary aged pupils

Community therapeutic education practitioners will be collaborating with the classroom teacher to define appropriate activities for the pupils in relation to the curriculum
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

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

Types of soft skills needed:

Active Listener
Calm and mild mannered
Positive Role Model
High Emotional intelligence (our pupils have all suffered CAMHS tier 3 or 4 traumas).
Resilience
Growth Mindset
Understanding that any improvement is a success
Youth Work, Social Work, Therapy or School background
Psychology Grads a plus.
Understanding of behaviour as a form of communication.
The schools offers:

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.
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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Location:
Barking
Salary:
£110 - £140 /day
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Education

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