Learning Support Assistant – Aspiring Art Therapist (High Support Autism)
Milk Education
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Job summary
Milk Education is recruiting a Learning Support Assistant (Aspiring Art Therapist) to work in a Haringey secondary school, supporting students with high-support autism through art as a tool for regulation, expression and connection.
You will collaborate with SENCOs, SLT and OTs to deliver creative, trauma-informed support, with 1:1 intervention and a focus on emotional regulation and communication.
Qualifications
- Art or Creative Arts graduate required.
- Aspiring Art Therapist or Psychologist encouraged.
- Calm, patient and imaginative individuals required.
- Experience supporting students with autism preferred.
Responsibilities
- Use art-based activities to promote communication and self-expression.
- Provide emotional regulation through sensory and creative interventions.
- Support students with high-support autism on a 1:1 basis.
- Collaborate with SENCOs, SLT, and OTs.
- Engage in safeguarding and pastoral care responsibilities.
Skills
Education
Job description
Location: Haringey
Start Date: September 2026
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30am-3:45pm (term time only)
Pay: £108 per day
Trial/observation days available
Learning Support Assistant - Aspiring Art Therapist - Haringey
Use creativity to connect with students who struggle to find their voice.
Are you an Art or Creative Arts graduate passionate about using creativity to support non-verbal students with high-support autism?
Milk Education is recruiting an Aspiring Art Therapist to work as a Learning Support Assistant in a Haringey secondary school. You will support students with complex autism, communication barriers, and high-support needs—using art as a tool for regulation, expression, and connection.
Work with students who have:
- Non-verbal or minimally verbal autism
- High-support needs requiring 1:1 intervention
- Sensory overload and communication frustration
- SEMH needs linked to neurodiversity
- Anxiety, trauma, and emotional dysregulation
Collaborate with SENCOs, SaLT, and OTs to deliver creative, trauma-informed support.
- Art-based activities to promote communication and self-expression
- Emotional regulation through sensory and creative interventions
- Building trust with non-verbal or disengaged learners
- Gaining exposure to safeguarding, behaviour management, and pastoral care
- Creative engagement with complex needs
- Frontline experience with autism and SEMH
- Therapeutic observation and reflective practice
- Safeguarding in a school setting
- Art, Fine Art, or Creative Arts graduates
- Aspiring Art Therapists or Psychologists
- Calm, patient, and imaginative individuals
- Passionate about supporting students with high-support autism
- £108/day – competitive pay
- Free CPD (Autism Awareness, De-escalation, Safeguarding)
- 1,000+ CPD courses via Milk Academy
- Free wellbeing resources
- 24/7 consultant support
- UK's only eco-friendly education agency
- Fast-track registration
Start Date: September 2026 – trial days available.
Milk Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We are APSCo Compliance+ accredited, meeting the highest standards in safer recruitment. All applicants will be subject to compliance checks in line with DfE, Keeping Children Safe in Education and APSCo guidelines.
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