Behaviour Support - Aspiring Criminal Justice - Bracknell

Academics Ltd.; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading education provider in the United Kingdom is looking for a SEMH Teaching Assistant to support students with social, emotional, and mental health challenges. This role involves working closely with vulnerable children, utilizing restorative practices to aid in their development and prevent entry into the criminal justice system. The position offers a long-term, full-time opportunity, ideal for those aspiring to a career in Criminal and Youth Justice.

Benefits

Opportunity to work with SEN specialists

Great training ground for aspiring Criminal and Youth Justice Officers

Qualifications

• Experience working with vulnerable students, particularly those with social, emotional, and mental health issues.
• Ability to form meaningful relationships with students.
• A sincere approach and understanding of trauma-informed care.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals in emotional and personal development.
• Engage with families and the community to support students.
• Implement restorative practices to foster positive behavior.

Skills

Restorative practices

Understanding of SEMH

Ability to engage students

Job description

Behaviour Support - Aspiring Criminal Justice - Bracknell

focused on Restorative Processes - Education and Training - Aspiring Criminal Justice

Working 1:1 and in small groups with students who have been through significant traumas, focus on restorative practices. Restorative practices underpin everything that happens within this specialist SEMH School.

The SEMH school are looking for someone sincere and who is able to understand what it takes to work with society's most vulnerable students, is the key. Your priority as a Mental Health/SEMH Teaching Assistant is to support and encourage the social, emotional, learning, behavioural and personal development of individual children. Can you demonstrate the value of an education to a child? Can you help give them the skills that can able them to be less vulnerable and susceptible to being manipulated.

• SEMH Teaching Assistant
• Bracknell
• £85 - £100 per day
• Aspiring Criminal Justice Officer
• Long-term full time opportunity

Giving pupils skills, they can use to gain independence, aiming to ensure they do not enter the criminal justice system. This LSA role is all about positive engagement, deploying restorative practices and showing a way of being as well as giving some of your professional self to the students. No significant learning will take place in this role of the relationships are not there. The role specialises in working with students who have Social, Emotional and Mental Health issues and Wellness concerns. Each student will have very different objectives in and out of school, some will live in supported living when they leave, and some will go to college. Engaging parents, guardians and the community is a role that the school plays role.

Behaviour is only one aspect of this role and it is only the display of an unmet need. It is important to understand, where the children are coming from and what traumas they have been through and the importance of clear objectives being set for them, making them feel valued within education in the process.

Opportunity Highlights

• Opportunity to work with SEN specialists at the top of their field, working with likeminded graduates, with similar aspirations
• Great training ground for aspiring Criminal and Youth Justice Officers
• Specialist SEMH school for students with Complex Social Needs, 11-16 in age, all from a wide range of backgrounds