Therapeutic Education Practitioner

London Teaching Pool, Ltd; London Borough of Newham; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Quality professional development

Supportive environment

Culture of achievement

Job summary

TLTP Group is recruiting a Special Needs Therapeutic Education practitioner for a specialist PRU in East London. You will work with secondary pupils with SEMH, SEBD and ASD, applying personalised education plans and collaborating with nurses, therapists and social care.

You should have experience with challenging behaviour, excellent behaviour management, and be able to teach across a range of subjects. This is a full-time, long-term role starting ASAP with interviews after half term.

Qualifications

• Current DBS on the update service.
• Working with primary or secondary.
• Experience teaching a range of subjects.

Responsibilities

• Support pupils with SEMH, SEBD and ASD in a specialist environment.
• Deliver a range of lessons and adapt activities to individual needs.
• Collaborate with classroom teachers, nurses, therapists and external professionals.
• Maintain high behaviour management standards and build positive relationships.
• Assess learners and contribute to personalised education plans.
• Liaise with social workers, speech and language therapists and educational psychologists.

Skills

DBS Update Service

Primary/Secondary Teaching

Subject Range Experience

Job description

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? Have you covered lesson? Experience tutoring or teaching small groups?

This specialist school based in East London is looking for a special needs Therapeutic Education practitioner with experience of working with challenging children and young people. This is a specialist PRU 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 withan international reputation inspecial educationexpertise, 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 a 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 startsASAP and interviews will be held after half term.

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 an 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

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

Skills and experience required are as follows:

• Current DBS on the update service
• Working with primary or secondary
• Experience teaching a range of subjects

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.

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.