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Graduate Teaching Assistant – Psychology Graduate Maidenhead – Education and Training – Graduate Teaching Assistant – Psychology Graduate Maidenhead
SEN and Mental Health Teaching Assistant role in Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, set in an outstanding provision, utilising Play, and Physiotherapy with children with Physical Disabilities, Low High Support Autism and Profound Multiple Learning Difficulties.
This school is a unique school for children with Low to High Support Autism, dependent on your long-term career objectives in SEN, Mental Health, Social Justice, you will get to qualify and disqualify different experiences for yourself!
There is a real focus on children who are nonverbal and selectively mute children, Global Development Delay and Pervasive, Development Disorder and Downs Syndrome. The school is a multi-disciplinary school with therapists in place, across many disciplines.
Graduate Teaching Assistant – Psychology Graduate Maidenhead – Education and Training – Graduate Teaching Assistant – Psychology Graduate Maidenhead
Job Title: Graduate Teaching Assistant
Location: Maidenhead
Salary Scale: £85 per day
Start Date: 01/09/23
End Date: 21/07/24
Contract type: Contract/Fulltime
This role will give you experience of working Neurological, respiratory, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, and immune system problems are not uncommon for our learners and present barriers to their access to education.
The school is all through SEN school, 3-18, Enhanced Child and Adult DBS required, with classes of no more 6 students at any one time. The school focuses on a EYS and Primary curriculum due to the very different learning levels of the students within each class and sector of school. This means you will have classes with students of different ages.
Many children with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) present with significant communication difficulties which can make it hard for them to express their emotions and to have them acknowledged. However, children with PMLD can often develop a social connection through improvised Art and Music making. Art and Music therapy can be used to create meaningful connections with those who are often isolated and frustrated.
The levels of the children will be often far below that of their stated age, it just depends on the levels of cognitive development that each child has KS3 and KS4. The school deploys a few different therapies, hence several the 30 separate classes that the school has, will be suitable for your development. The scope of ability the school must cater for is condensed in terms of low cognitive ability, in no way simple. Each student will have different physical abilities, backgrounds, each child’s autism will manifest itself very differently, the school and Headteacher adapts accordingly.
The students will benefit from Speech and Language, Art, OT and Music Therapy, different therapies will be suitable for each class and child. You will get to see outside agencies at work, including Art and Occupational Therapists come into school, as well as use your own Artistic and creative skills to aid learning and well-being.
This role is all about giving the children as much joy, stimuli, and recognition as possible, each child’s learning ability will dictate the approach and levels of objectives! This role is about empathy and pragmatism, sympathy is an emotional that only sets yourself and the children back.
Graduate Teaching Assistant – Psychology Graduate Maidenhead – Education and Training – Graduate Teaching Assistant – Psychology Graduate Maidenhead
Please be advised that this role requires a strong knowledge and understanding of safeguarding and child protection and that successful applicants must satisfy all background safer recruitment checks including an enhanced DBS on the update service.
For more information or to register your interest or to be considered, please click ‘apply now’ to submit your full and up-to-date CV, and one of our dedicated consultants, will be in touch within 24 hours.
Graduate Teaching Assistant – Psychology Graduate Maidenhead – Education and Training – Graduate Teaching Assistant – Psychology Graduate Maidenhead
**Specialist school for Autism and PMLD School for children aged 11-18, tailored curriculum for each student based on ability, not the child’s age
**Focus on Autism, low to low to middling cognitive students, there will students of higher ability sporadically throughout the school
**Parking is available if you drive, good public transport links
**Dependent on the class and the student’s need, elements of personal care will be required
**Concerted focus on Pervasive Development Disorder
**PMLD, ADHD, Aspergers, OCD, Dyslexia and a focus on Social, Emotional and Mental Health challenges
**Some children with PMLD may have severe difficulties seeing, hearing, speaking and moving – this is where the school’s outstanding differentiating and understanding each student’s EHCP comes into play
**Heavy focus on learning through play and focusing on marginal achievements, that can evolve into sustainable progress.
**Outstanding Teaching and support teams in place, a wonderfully holistic and positive atmosphere
**Art Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language specialists will come into the school from outside agencies, the school utilises many holistic and therapeutical approaches
**Classes of 3-5 pupils dependent on age, ability and the children’s specific need
Graduate Teaching Assistant – Psychology Graduate Maidenhead – Education and Training – Graduate Teaching Assistant – Psychology Graduate Maidenhead
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