The role involves supporting a bright, kind, and gentle 11-year-old girl who lives at home with her mum and cat. She is currently not attending school but is supported through an Education Other Than School Package. Her past experiences with school and education have been challenging, so building her confidence and wellbeing is a priority, with a focus on recovery and connection.
This young person loves Taylor Swift, Melanie Martinez, K-Pop, animals (especially cats and dogs), and enjoys activities such as shopping, crafts, play, listening to music, gaming, making and watching videos, skateboarding, and spending time with animals. She is autistic and has ADHD, with a positive self-identity around these diagnoses and a celebration of being neurodivergent. She also has additional anxiety disorders that affect her communication and cause distress with demands or feeling forced to do things.
Your role, under the guidance of an advisory teacher and input from psychology, speech and language therapy, and occupational therapy teams, is to develop and deliver activity programmes tailored to her needs. You will provide advice, support, and coaching to her and her family, participate in meetings including MDTs, and contribute to risk assessments and support plans, ensuring her involvement in her progress wherever possible. Confidentiality regarding your lived experience can be maintained by discussing with recruitment or HR teams. Safeguarding checks, including an Enhanced DBS, will be undertaken for the successful candidate.
Essential experience includes supporting therapy programmes, Continuing Professional Development, working in specialist education, and relating well to parents and carers. The candidate should be energetic, humorous, interested in activities similar to those of the young person, active, understanding of differences, patient, adaptable, and willing to learn. Basic skills in Microsoft Office and internet access are required, and driving and vehicle access are necessary for activity access. Bonus skills include experience and training with neurodivergent children experiencing anxiety, and proficiency with technology, video editing, gaming, and digital art.
Our organization values making a difference, supporting each other, and putting the people we support at the heart of everything. We offer 27 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with service length, a generous pension scheme, occupational sick pay, family-friendly policies, discount platforms, and cycle-to-work schemes.
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