Secondary Teaching Assistant Maidenhead

Recruiter
Confidential
Location
Maidenhead
Salary
75.00 - 76.00 GBP Daily
Posted
25 Jun 2022
Closes
20 Jul 2022
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Part Time
Secondary Teaching Assistant Maidenhead - Education and Training - July 4th and September 2022 starts - Secondary Teaching Assistant Maidenhead - Focus on Autism and Mental Health

Schools for vulnerable students are open and will maintain open as long as they can, now more than ever, these schools are safe space for their students. You must be passionate and sincere about your objectives within Mental Health and Autism.

This is a fascinating TA role set in the heart of Windsor and Maidenhead, focussed on positive reinforcement, ensuring a path for students who have been excluded from their mainstream education, back into the mainstream. This is a LSA role that requires patience, empathy and a lot of your time, there are zero quick cures and miracle solutions in a role like this. Some of the outstanding foundations you set, you may not get to see the pleasing outcomes immediately. Patience and empathy is the true skill here.

Ideal role for an Aspiring Clinical, Education or Forensic, Psychologist. Roles will also appeal to psychology graduates interested in Social, Youth and Criminal Justice. Looking at the Socio- Economic, class, race and faith factors that affect mental health and the approaches to mental health, is a crucial area.

This Psychology Graduate Mental Health Maidenhead LSA role in a specialist autistic school for boys and girls aged 3-16 that have switched from their mainstream education. There are no quick fixes here, if you have a utopian idea of being able to 'save' every student, you will not succeed. You may help plant ideas that you will not see the full, positive effects or end results from, know that they are there and will happen. The school is a great development base for Psychology graduates who are sincere and know your objectives.

Understanding the dichotomies, diversity and cultural effects on mental health in an area like Dorking, is vital to being able to have the stoic and durability nature to thrive in this role. Maintaining behaviour of the students, where possible and raising academic achievement, can be difficult.

Secondary Teaching Assistant Maidenhead - Education and Training

***Positive engagement of students, understanding their traumas and autism, holistic approach required

***EFS, KS1 and KS2 focused, specialist focus of 1:1 and small groups. Continuity with Autism being one of the big keys. Very diverse school in terms of class, faith and heritages.

***Specialist Autistic and SEMH school, mixed students, 03-16 - Forest School element and Restorative Practices

***GBP75 per day, LSA role is for the academic year to July 2021, 8.15 to 16.15, immediate start

***SALTs, OTs and ABA Tutors in place

***Working 1:1 with at least pupils with varying degrees of SEN from Mild Learning Difficulties to Severe Autism.

Education and Training provided online and within the school

Secondary Teaching Assistant Maidenhead - Education and Training - Secondary Teaching Assistant Maidenhead