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 unique 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 gain a more fulfilling lifestyle whilst supporting their most challenging moments.

**Days/hours of work**:
Friday 1.15pm-4.15pm and Saturday 10am-1pm, for a total of 6 hours per week.

**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 a young child on a 1:1 basis with play based learning.
- Ensuring all targets written by the consultant are delivered to a high and professional standard
- Taking data and notes during one-to-one 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
- Career development & ongoing support from the consultant

A rewarding job in building someone’s life skill

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

**Salary**: From £13.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Flexitime

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

**Experience**:

- SEN Children: 2 years (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- DBS (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Autism practitioner