Opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of young people with challenging behaviors and complex needs.
Work in a specialist school with an international reputation for expertise in special education, providing a rich and supportive environment.
Collaborative work with a diverse range of professionals, enhancing the support network for students (including therapists and social workers).
Access to quality professional development opportunities that allow for continuous learning and improvement.
Experience a flexible community-based role that involves travel and dynamic interaction with students in various settings.
Engagement in a meaningful mission that prioritizes building strong, positive relationships with students and fostering their personal growth.
Potential for permanent employment opportunities after a successful initial period, providing job security in a rewarding field.
The Therapeutic Education Practitioner role in Barking involves working with young people who have been excluded or are at risk of exclusion from mainstream schools, particularly those with social, emotional, and mental health (SEMH) needs, along with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and challenging behaviors. Candidates should have relevant experience, including Team Teach or MAPA training, and an understanding of Therapeutic Education principles. The job includes providing individualized support to students in a community setting and collaborating with professionals to develop tailored educational plans.
This full-time position operates Monday to Friday and includes responsibilities such as lesson coverage, behavior management, and building strong relationships with students. Practitioners will participate in ongoing professional development and are expected to navigate flexible travel arrangements within London. The school aims to create a safe and nurturing learning environment and offers a supportive community for both staff and students, with the potential for permanent employment after the initial term.
This full-time position operates Monday to Friday and includes responsibilities such as lesson coverage, behavior management, and building strong relationships with students. Practitioners will participate in ongoing professional development and are expected to navigate flexible travel arrangements within London. The school aims to create a safe and nurturing learning environment and offers a supportive community for both staff and students, with the potential for permanent employment after the initial term.
Opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of young people with challenging behaviors and complex needs.
Work in a specialist school with an international reputation for expertise in special education, providing a rich and supportive environment.
Collaborative work with a diverse range of professionals, enhancing the support network for students (including therapists and social workers).
Access to quality professional development opportunities that allow for continuous learning and improvement.
Experience a flexible community-based role that involves travel and dynamic interaction with students in various settings.
Engagement in a meaningful mission that prioritizes building strong, positive relationships with students and fostering their personal growth.
Potential for permanent employment opportunities after a successful initial period, providing job security in a rewarding field.
Therapeutic Education practitioner
Do you have a background in SEMH, SEBD or ASD? Have you had experience with challenging behaviour? Do you have Team Teach or MAPA training? Have you covered lesson? Experience tutoring or teaching small groups?
This specialist school based in Barking are looking for a Therapeutic Education practitioners with experience of working with challenging children and young people. This is a specialist PRU school that caters for young people who have been excluded or at risk of being excluded from a mainstream school.
Summary Of Role
Therapeutic Education practitioners will have the opportunity to work in this SEMH school withan international reputation inspecial educationexpertise, curriculum and resources.
Experience of working with hard to reach young people with SEMH/ACEs/ASD/Sensory and communication difficulties.
We are looking for candidates who are Trauma informed with a mentoring/coaching/teaching background with an understanding of Therapeutic Education.
Have the ability to build strong, meaningful and healthy relationships.
Who can maintain professional boundaries, are resilient, solution focussed and reflective in their practise.
Full time (temporary long term) positions 8.30:4.30 (Mon:Fri)
The Role Will Entail
Working 1:1 with students in the community who are accessing one of the Curriculum Pathways (Engagement, Vocational, Academic)
It is mainly a community based role with the expectation that TEPs will be flexible to travel to the hub at times with their students and travel around London to work with different students within their cluster groups.
TEPs will be expected to attend the Therapy and Life skills Hub in Barking every Friday for CPD/meeting/resources. IG11
There is no private parking onsite (only pay and display)
Travel expenses (during working hours) and lunch with students is included and will be reimbursed.
Skills
Therapeutic Education practitioners must have experience working with mental health problems and complex SEN needs.
This school believes that all young people should be provided with appropriate education in a safe, stable, containing learning environment.
Special needs Therapeutic Education practitioners will be working with a secondary aged pupils who have SEMD, SEBD troubled behaviour . Some students are academic and they range from KS2: KS4
Therapeutic Education practitioners are given opportunities to succeed through the use of highly personalised individual education plans to help support their students.
The Therapeutic Education Department works closely with the nurses, doctors and therapists at the centre and with a wide range of professionals in the community.
This role startsASAP
Therapeutic Education practitioners will need excellent behaviour management skills
Be able to build positive relationships with young people and staff
Therapeutic Education practitioners need to be able to teach/cover a range of lessons when needed
Good knowledge/experience working with children with SEMH within an Special needs environment
Therapeutic Education practitioners will need experience working with secondary aged pupils
Therapeutic Education practitioners will be collaborating with the classroom teacher to define appropriate activities for the pupils in relation to the curriculum
Assessing children who have long or short:term learning difficulties and working with colleagues to identify individual pupils special needs
Liaising with other professionals, such as social workers, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists and educational psychologists
This is a full time/long termposition and will lead to permanent if successful.
The Schools Offers
A committed and enthusiastic staff.
Quality professional development.
An exciting opportunity to shape the future of the school and to set the culture for achievement and progress for all of the pupils.
Purposeful, happy and supportive environ
Do you have a background in SEMH, SEBD or ASD? Have you had experience with challenging behaviour? Do you have Team Teach or MAPA training? Have you covered lesson? Experience tutoring or teaching small groups?
This specialist school based in Barking are looking for a Therapeutic Education practitioners with experience of working with challenging children and young people. This is a specialist PRU school that caters for young people who have been excluded or at risk of being excluded from a mainstream school.
Summary Of Role
Therapeutic Education practitioners will have the opportunity to work in this SEMH school withan international reputation inspecial educationexpertise, curriculum and resources.
Experience of working with hard to reach young people with SEMH/ACEs/ASD/Sensory and communication difficulties.
We are looking for candidates who are Trauma informed with a mentoring/coaching/teaching background with an understanding of Therapeutic Education.
Have the ability to build strong, meaningful and healthy relationships.
Who can maintain professional boundaries, are resilient, solution focussed and reflective in their practise.
Full time (temporary long term) positions 8.30:4.30 (Mon:Fri)
The Role Will Entail
Working 1:1 with students in the community who are accessing one of the Curriculum Pathways (Engagement, Vocational, Academic)
It is mainly a community based role with the expectation that TEPs will be flexible to travel to the hub at times with their students and travel around London to work with different students within their cluster groups.
TEPs will be expected to attend the Therapy and Life skills Hub in Barking every Friday for CPD/meeting/resources. IG11
There is no private parking onsite (only pay and display)
Travel expenses (during working hours) and lunch with students is included and will be reimbursed.
Skills
Therapeutic Education practitioners must have experience working with mental health problems and complex SEN needs.
This school believes that all young people should be provided with appropriate education in a safe, stable, containing learning environment.
Special needs Therapeutic Education practitioners will be working with a secondary aged pupils who have SEMD, SEBD troubled behaviour . Some students are academic and they range from KS2: KS4
Therapeutic Education practitioners are given opportunities to succeed through the use of highly personalised individual education plans to help support their students.
The Therapeutic Education Department works closely with the nurses, doctors and therapists at the centre and with a wide range of professionals in the community.
This role startsASAP
Therapeutic Education practitioners will need excellent behaviour management skills
Be able to build positive relationships with young people and staff
Therapeutic Education practitioners need to be able to teach/cover a range of lessons when needed
Good knowledge/experience working with children with SEMH within an Special needs environment
Therapeutic Education practitioners will need experience working with secondary aged pupils
Therapeutic Education practitioners will be collaborating with the classroom teacher to define appropriate activities for the pupils in relation to the curriculum
Assessing children who have long or short:term learning difficulties and working with colleagues to identify individual pupils special needs
Liaising with other professionals, such as social workers, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists and educational psychologists
This is a full time/long termposition and will lead to permanent if successful.
The Schools Offers
A committed and enthusiastic staff.
Quality professional development.
An exciting opportunity to shape the future of the school and to set the culture for achievement and progress for all of the pupils.
Purposeful, happy and supportive environ
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