Therapeutic Education Practitioner. Job in Ipswich Education & Training Jobs

TLTP Education; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialist education provider in England is seeking Therapeutic Education practitioners to support secondary-aged pupils with SEMH and EBD needs. The role emphasizes collaboration with teachers and the community to foster a positive learning environment. The position offers full-time hours with a possibility of permanence, along with professional development opportunities for dedicated staff.

Benefits

Quality professional development

Supportive working environment

Opportunity for career advancement

Qualifications

• Experience working with mental health problems and complex SEN needs.
• Current DBS on the update service.
• Classroom experience with primary or secondary aged students.

Responsibilities

• Work with challenging children and young people in a supportive environment.
• Create individual education plans for students.
• Collaborate with teachers and other professionals on activities.

Skills

SEN

EBD

Mental Health experience

ASD

Excellent behaviour management

Job description

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 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 starts ASAP

• 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 term position and will lead to permanent if successful. Skills and experience required are as follows:

• 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

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.