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Location:Hove
Salary:£11.44 (£23,048 full time)
Hours: Monday-Friday 38.75 hours per week Term Time Only- Monday- Friday 8.30am-4.15pm with occasional 5pm finishes for whole school meetings.
An incredible opportunity to join a specialist provision whose core aim is to improve the lives and prospects of the children in their care are seeking a number of Educational Support Assistants to work in their school on a full time basis.
A fantastic Children's home with school attached they work therapeutically with children who have complex needs, have experience abusive, neglectful and /or chaotic and traumatic situations and require specialist support in learning how to cope with the pressures and demands of everyday living.
The role
A Therapeutic Support Assistant is a member both Therapeutic Support Team of the provision and home and of the frontline care and support team of the wider organisation of the setting.
They work collaboratively with and under the instruction and guidance of special needs class teachers (in the classroom setting) and the therapeutic support team manager (in the wider setting of the school and workplace).
Therapeutic Support Assistants create and maintain the conditions necessary for learning to take place. They grow their understanding of each childs individual emotional and social and learning difficulties and needs, and those of the class group as a whole.
They use this understanding to adapt the learning environment and the way and pace that learning is delivered, to address barriers to and promote engagement in learning and teaching, and so that each child and the class group as a whole gain maximum benefit from their teachers delivery of the curriculum.
Desired Criteria:
- A minimum of 1 year proven experience gained in the field of residential child care or social care.
- A reasonable understanding and awareness of current child care legislation.
- Understanding of cost awareness and efficiency.
- Full driving licence.
- Relevant qualification in, or working knowledge of, child care & education provision.
- Self-aware, confident, motivated, sense of humour, creativity, conscientious work-ethic.
- Full clean driving licence
Benefits:
- Opportunities for additional duties and bonus payments (that can significantly increase your earning potential)
- Company-paid sickness allowance
- Employee group healthcare scheme
- A training package worth approx. £3,000.00 £3,500.00 per employee
- Excellent ongoing training and commitment to investing in your continuous professional development, including therapeutic models and reflective practice, learning and classroom support, and further post-graduate opportunities for the right candidate.
- Fully funded and supported attendance on our accredited Level 3 diploma in therapeutic childcare and education
- Working in one of the countrys leading providers of integrated therapeutic childcare and education
