Therapeutic Education Practitioner

TLTP Education; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialist school in East London is seeking Therapeutic Education practitioners to work with secondary-aged pupils with complex SEN needs. The role involves managing classroom behavior, assessing individual needs, and collaborating with teachers. Candidates should have experience with mental health issues and a current DBS. This position offers professional development opportunities in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Quality professional development

Supportive environment

Opportunity to shape school culture

Qualifications

• Must have experience working with mental health problems and complex SEN needs.
• Current DBS on the update service required.
• Classroom experience needed.

Responsibilities

• Manage behavior effectively in the classroom.
• Collaborate with teachers to define activities relevant to the curriculum.
• Assess children with learning difficulties.

Skills

Excellent behaviour management

Experience working with children with SEMH

Ability to build positive relationships

Teaching range of subjects

Job description

Overview

Therapeutic Education practitioner

Do you have a background in SEMH, SEBD or ASD? Have you had experience with challenging behaviour? Have you covered lessons? Experience tutoring or teaching small groups? This specialist school based in East London are looking for Therapeutic Education practitioners with experience of working with challenging children and young people. This is a specialist school that caters for young people who have been excluded or at risk of being excluded from a mainstream school. Therapeutic Education practitioners will have the opportunity to work in this outstanding school with an international reputation in special education expertise, curriculum and resources. 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. Special needs Therapeutic Education practitioners will be working with secondary aged pupils who have SEMD, SEBD troubled behaviour. Some students are academic and they range from KS2- KS4. 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

Responsibilities

• Therapeutic Education practitioners will need excellent behaviour management skills
• Be able to build positive relationships with young people and staff
• Therapeutic Education practitioners need to be able to teach/cover a range of lessons when needed
• Good knowledge/experience working with children with SEMH within a Special needs environment
• Therapeutic Education practitioners will need experience working with secondary aged pupils
• 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

Qualifications

• SEN
• EBD
• Mental Health experience
• ASD
• Excellent behaviour management
• Current DBS on the update service
• Classroom experience
• Working with primary or secondary
• Experience teaching a range of subjects

Benefits / What we offer

• 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.
• If you engage the students in a positive way, this will be a very satisfying role, which would look great on your CV.

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