Thrive Practitioner

The Aurora-Group; Crawley; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team at an innovative educational provider dedicated to transforming the lives of young people with special educational needs. As a Thrive Practitioner, you'll play a crucial role in supporting students' emotional and behavioral development, ensuring they thrive in their learning environments. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact while working in a nurturing and collaborative atmosphere. With a focus on personal growth, you'll receive comprehensive training and development opportunities, competitive pay, and a range of employee benefits designed to support your well-being. If you're passionate about making a difference in the lives of young people, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Training and Development

Health Cash Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Refer a friend bonus

Discounts through Perkbox

Enhanced Annual Leave

Company Sick Pay

Enhanced Pension

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Understanding of safeguarding and child protection procedures.
• Experience working with children with SEN, ADHD, and ASD.

Responsibilities

• Safeguard and promote pupils' welfare according to school policies.
• Support emotional development and behavior needs of pupils.
• Implement strategies and activities tailored to individual pupil needs.

Skills

Safeguarding principles

Emotional development support

Behaviour management

Interpersonal skills

Flexibility and adaptability

Numeracy and literacy

ICT skills

Education

GCSE in English

GCSE in Maths

THRIVE training

PRICE training

Job description

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Location Aurora Wilden View, Torton, Kidderminster

Contract Type Full-time, Permanent

Hours Full-time, 40 hours per week, Term time only

Salary £14.77 p/hr to £16.13 p/hr depending on qualifications and experience (Annual salary £26,391 to £28,821)

Closing Date Friday 2nd May

Interview Date Week commencing 5th May

The Aurora Group

The Aurora Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities.

About Aurora Wilden View

Are you ready to make a transformative impact in the lives of young people with SEMH needs and associated challenging behaviour linked to Autistic Spectrum Conditions? Do you have the ambition and drive to inspire the next generation who have already experienced a turbulent time prior to joining us? Can you be their stability and their champion? If so, we want you to join our dynamic and collaborative team at Aurora Wilden View!

Aurora Wilden View is a beautiful, purposeful school set in a 20 acre site with huge potential as we celebrate our one year anniversary since opening. We want to offer the best for our young people and this means enhancing our curriculum offer and ensuring our young people have access to a wide range of pathways to allow them to move to the next stage of their development.

We are currently looking for a Lead Thrive Practitioner to join our new school.

The main purpose of the role

The purpose of the THRIVE practitioner is to ensure the day to day running of a THRIVE provision to support the development, social, emotional and behavioural needs of pupils improving their active engagement in their social and academic environments and access to learning.

Key duties

• Take responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils according to the school’s policies, including safeguarding and PREVENT.
• Use specialist skills, training, or experience to support pupils’ emotional development and behaviour needs.
• To support the day to day running of a Thrive provision ensuring that pupils are effectively supervised, implementing timetables, planning, strategies and activities to meet the individual needs of pupils
• Provide play and arts-based enjoyable experiences that give young people the opportunity to learn through experience rather than through cognitively based learning.
• Deliver 11, small groups and class group sessions
• To work alongside the SLT and clinical team to actively assess pupil’s progress and create up to date action plans through regular Thrive assessments
• Keep statistical data as requested by SENDCO and/or clinical team
• Develop and contribute to the delivering of staff training in order to implement and embed the Thrive Approach model across the school.
  
  
  

A Full and detailed Job Description is available to view here Thrive Practiioner Wilden View JD.docx

Qualifications

• GCSE pass above C (or 4 in the new GCSE system) in English and Maths
• Desirable THRIVE training or willingness to undertake practitioner training
• Desirable PRICE or equivalent trained or willingness to undertake training
  
  
  

Knowledge And Experience

• Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedures
• Relevant knowledge and experience of pupils with SEN, ADHD and ASD
• Experience of working with children in an educational setting
• Desirable Experience of running nurture groups/social skills groups
  
  
  

Skills And Behaviours

• Commitment to the role, the desire to put the child first and treat them as an individual
• Be positive and creative in meeting pupils’ needs
• Can work unaccompanied and as a member of a team, understanding their role in school and associated responsibilities
• Work collaboratively with other staff and professionals with good interpersonal skills
• Good numeracy and literacy skills
• Competent ICT skills
• Be flexible, adaptable and solution focused.
• Ability to manage emotional demands of working with young people with a wide range of behavioural, social and emotional issues
• Ability to work under pressure
• Desirable Can actively self-evaluate learning needs and seek out learning opportunities
  
  
  

What’s on offer?

• Training and Development
  
  
  

Within Aurora, we strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people we support. We offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all our employees to improve your skills and further your career.

• Save money on your bills!!
  
  
  

With the cost of living rising we have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further. Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are. You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more. You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme.

• Competitive Pay and Reward
  
  
  

Every year we compare the market rates of pay and rewards to insure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations. We also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Enhanced Pension and Life Assurance.

• UK Health Cash Plan
  
  
  

This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills. You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.

• Employee Assistance Programme
  
  
  

Your health and wellbeing is very important to us and we have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7.

• Refer a friend for £1,000
  
  
  

We’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)

How to apply?

Please complete an online application form in full, remembering to include all employment and education details. If you need any assistance or would like any more information please contact [e-mail]

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.

If you are successful at interview there may be delays in us being able to offer you the post if we are unable to verify your ID in person at interview.

Please note that shortlisted candidates might be subject to an online search.

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