Thrive Practitioner

Overview and Responsibilities

Thrive Practitioner

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.
• 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 1:1, small groups, and class group sessions.
• 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 delivery of staff training in order to implement and embed the Thrive Approach model across the school.

Skills and Qualifications

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.

Benefits and Additional Information

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 a 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 ensure they are comparable or better than 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 are 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 Adele in the Aurora Group Recruitment Team at adele.richard@the-aurora-group.com.

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.