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Health and Social Care Graduate Windsor – Education and Training - Health and Social Care Graduate Windsor

SEN Teaching Assistant role in a specialist provision for Autistic children aged 7-17, focussed on Autism and associated Complex, Social Needs. PSHE and Health and Social Care are huge areas of focus for the school, focussed on preparing the students for life outside of school.

A big part of the success in this school and their advocating for their children, is to go above and beyond the National Curriculum, for their children.

If you aspire to work within Mental Health, a trauma setting, Youth or Criminal Justice, this long-term SEN TA/ Mental Health Teaching Assistant role is a good opportunity to continue to develop, qualify your foundations of knowledge and experience.

You will be working with very vulnerable children, still adjusting to school life after missing school through Covid 19, it’s a long, challenging, reintegration for many of these children. The objectives and goals will always be different, for each student, their behaviour will likely be unpredictable and will often be dictated by the adults and environments they are exposed to, outside of school.

The location of the school in Windsor and Maidenhead if you drive, makes it accessible from many parts of Hillingdon, Farnham etc.

Job Title:  SEN Teaching Assistant

Location: Windsor and Maidenhead

Salary Scale: £85 per day

Start Date: 01/09/23, Immediate starts for trial days

End Date: to Permanent

Contract type: Contract/Fulltime, 5 days a week, 8:30 – 16:00

Health and Social Care Graduate Windsor – Education and Training - Health and Social Care Graduate Windsor

This is a school that uses a positive and restorative approach is key in this school and context.

Can you build a comfort and productive relationship with a student that is so effective, the student progresses to college and apprenticeship – can you change the course of their life?

A restorative, empathetic approach is really appreciated and required with the children, many, understandably, will have a deep mistrust of the adult world.

Of course, life and the role are not that linear, vulnerable children are surrounded by vulnerable adults and will be exposed to trauma and the opportunity to make decisions that are not in their best interest.

GSL realise the role that sincerity plays in any form of advocacy, be it in the mental health or special educational needs settings. If you have sincere empathy and know your reasons, your drive for helping children and vulnerable people who have been through severe trauma, being let down poorly by the adult world.

Seeing the differences of how mental health and autism, for example, manifest differently in girls and boys – something overlooked and another example of the socio-economic and anthropological elements of life you will see play out in front of you.

Health and Social Care Graduate Windsor – Education and Training - Health and Social Care Graduate Windsor

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 in ‘SEN Teaching Assistant role, 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.

• Focussed on mainstream EYFS, Primary, Secondary curriculums with the ABA focus, combined with key and functional skills

Liking people, let alone children, is a big part of this SEN Teaching Assistant role – if you understand why you are in this role

• Enhanced Child and Adult DBS required to work with vulnerable children, safeguarding
• Focus on Key and Personal Skills, giving the students skills that they can actively use in their personal and newly professional, lives.
• All training and support provided by the school with their excellent training system
• Outstanding support provided from your consultant each step of the way during the registration and preparation for trial day processes, to the constant care and support when you are in role.
• Tapping into creative, sport, technology, cooking – any outlet the boys and girls have, the school explore and positively encourage it
• Classes of no more than 6, you will have a mixture of 1:1 and small group work in class, dependent on the lesson and individual contexts
• Level 5 and above grade (A* to C) required in Maths and English
• Nurturing young people with the academic, independence and life skills they need

Health and Social Care Graduate Windsor – Education and Training - Health and Social Care Graduate Windsor