Autism Practitioner

What we do
We as a company want to offer support to all our young learners, by giving them opportunities to learn new skills that will help and support them

throughout their life time.

Our young learners need a good start in life and we do this by supporting them with their

communication, self help skills, academics and day to day functional skills.

Our aim is for our learners to become more independent by breaking down complex tasks that are most challenging for them such as working on their social skills, making friends and being able to engage in everyday activities at school or nursery.

Each and every one of our learners are different and unique and they all need different levels of support and different strategies to learn.

With our strategies and techniques we aim to make learning fun, creative and engaging for all our learners.

Our goal is to support children with autism by helping them to a more fulfilling

make someone's life more fulfilling by supporting them through their most challenging moments.

We are looking for an individual who is:

• Enthusiastic, self motivated and punctual
• Experienced in working with children
• Creative when teaching new skills and adapting to change when necessary.
• Able to communicate effectively
• Willing to learn new strategies and methods for teaching
• Well organised, engaging, and patient
• Consistent in the role
• Able to work alone and as part of a team

Job description & duties

• Working on home based programmes with children on a 1:1 basis located in the East and West Midlands
• Ensuring all targets written by the consultant are delivered to a high and professional standard
• Taking data and notes during onetoone sessions
• Using and implementing behavioural intervention programmes for children with autism, other developmental delays, or special educational needs.
• To use the concept of learning using behaviour analysis, training provided

Essential Requirements:

• UK driving licence is needed
• A current and up to date DBS
• Experience working with children/childcare background (2+ years)

Desirable:

• Has a psychology degree
• Has previously worked in a nursery or school setting as a nursery assistant or teaching assistant
• First aid or Makaton trained
• Experience working with autism or other developmental delays (2+ years)
• An individual who wants to progress in this career

Benefits:

• Competitive rates of pay
• Full training provided
• Flexible hours and days ( week days and weekends available)
• Shift work including 68 hours per week, or 1015 hours per week
• Career development & ongoing support from the consultant

A rewarding job in building someone's life skill

Job Types:
Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Part-time hours: 6-20 per week

Salary:
From £13.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Flexitime

Schedule:

• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Experience:

• Children: 2 years (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

• DBS (preferred)

Shift availability:

• Day shift (preferred)

Work Location:
In person

Reference ID:
Autism practitioner

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