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Trainee Autism Practitioner

1 month ago


Kirkby Lonsdale, United Kingdom Appcastenterprise Full time

**At OFG, we work smarter so you can spend more time doing what makes you happy**

Become an Trainee Autism Practitioner at Underley Garden School part of Options Autism and start working towards yours.
- Salary**: £19,400 - £20,394 per annum plus £500 welcome bonus and an extra £500 when you pass your probation**:

- Hours: 40 Hours Per Week
- Contract: Term Time Only, Permanent

**Visits to Underley Garden School are Welcome to all applicants**

**About Us**

Underley Garden School is a large school with small class sizes, focusing on children and young people, aged 5-19, who have a range of complex needs associated with autism and learning disabilities, including complex communication, sensory and behaviouralneeds associated with their disabilities.

Our School adopts a holistic, person-centred approach to the development of our young people and endeavours to ensure that they achieve as high a standard as possible. We offer a comprehensive portfolio of education, care and therapy to meet the individualrequirements of young people with complex special educational needs.

At Underley Garden, we aim to make a positive difference to the personal, social and learning lives of the people entrusted to our care.

Located near the market town of Kirkby Lonsdale on the edge of the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales in a commutable distance of Lancaster, Cumbria and surrounding areas.

**The opportunity**

Enjoy a rewarding education career and have a real impact on children and young people’s lives. Join an amazing team creating supportive, nurturing environments where our pupils achieve far more than they ever expected.

As a Trainee Autism Practitioner, you will connect directly with the brilliant children and young people we care for, helping to make sure they get the very best from their education. Each individual has a diagnosis of Autism and may have additional needs.They have so much potential, and they will rely on you to guide their learning journeys bespoke to them.

You will help prepare learning materials and run classroom activities, with plenty of hands-on experience and some supervision too. You will take responsibility for their emotional and physical needs, supporting them to develop as individuals and engagewith the world.

You will face challenges and overcome them as you flourish and thrive, sharing your skills and learning from others as your career takes you as high as you always dreamed you could go.

Every day will be different, but you will have all the support you need, with lots of skills and experience to draw on along with valuable advice and guidance too.

**Who we are looking for**

We are looking for passionate staff who want to support children with a variety of complex needs such as Autism, SEMH, ADHD, Non-Verbal and Pre-Verbal and Communicational difficulties and more. You will be required as a part of your role to undertake personalcare duties to support our students.

You will be adaptable and ready to work in a variety of classroom roles, both indoors and outside according to individual need. Taking a responsive and caring approach, you may be running classroom activities, leading outdoor experiences or supervising childrenas they explore further afield.

**Why join Options Autism?**
**Benefits**

**Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including**:

- Holidays are equivalent to 13 weeks
- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
- “Your Wellbeing Matters” - access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

**And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including**:

- A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
- 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Electric Car Purchase Scheme
- Critical illness cover

**Additional School Benefits**
- Gym Membership at Whoop Hall
- Birthday Chocolates
- Gift Voucher at Christmas
- BUPA Wellbeing Health Expenses including Employee Assistance Programme and Anytime Healthline
- Team Building Days
- Attendance Incentive
- 'Go Green Initiative' - Every staff member who lives outside of a 10-mile radius from Underley Garden will receive a payment for five days travel per month. We encourage car sharing where possible

**And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the children and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the livesof others.**

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Job ID: 191981


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