Therapy Assistant

**Therapy Assistant - Speech, Language and Communication Needs - Aspiring SpLg Therapist - Surrey**

**The School**:
The school provides life changing education and therapy to students aged 7-19 with language disorders, including Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). They at the forefront of global research and training in the field of speech and language disabilities.The school provides a unique, specialist environment that closely fits the needs and challenges that the students face. The school offers a highly specialised curriculum which aims to ensure all pupils can reach their potential. The students' needs includeAutism, Downs Syndrome, communication needs and they do require high levels of care and support.

**Hours and salary**:

- 40 hours per week, term time only, 8.30am-4.30pm, flexibility within these hours is essential and you are required to work until 5pm one day a week for staff training and meetings.
- Actual Salary: £17,939.47 - £20,155.10

**Purpose of the role**:
The purpose of the role is to implement interventions advised by Occupational Therapy and Educational Psychologist. You will implement and review therapy interventions as identified by the Therapy Team, through assessment and as set out as part of a Statementof Special Educational Needs or Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP), to enable students to fulfil their potential in all aspects of their lives. These will include occupational therapy interventions as well as sensory and creative activities such as therapeuticart activities.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Enable students to regulate the impacts their sensory and emotional needs have on them
- Enable students to learn and develop independence skills and strategies to increase access to the world around them successfully and prepare them for adulthood
- Ensure young people are provided the tools they require to facilitate access to the wider world
- Support staff in an integrated way to support the meeting of targets and monitoring of progress in sensory development
- Keep detailed records of interventions and outcomes
- Meet regularly with the Occupational Therapist, Educational Psychologist and/or SENCo to feedback on work done, outcomes and alternative approaches
- To provide reports for termly reports, Annual Reviews and other key information-sharing opportunities.
- Post graduate qualification in psychology or criminology is desirable but not essential
- Level 2 (GCSE) in Maths and English - essential
- Experience of working in a special school environment is desirable.