Semh Ta

SEMH TA
Do you have a background in SEMH, SEBD or ASD? Have you had experience with challenging behaviour? Do you have Team Teach or MAPA training?
This specialist school based in East London is looking for a special needs SEMH TA's with experience of working with challenging children and young people. This is a specialist SEN school that caters for young people include depression, ASD, ADHD, Complex needs,obsessive compulsive disorder and attachment disorders.
SEMH TA's will have the opportunity to work in this outstanding school with an international reputation in special education expertise, curriculum and resources.
SEMH TA's must have experience working with mental health problems and complex SEN needs.
This school believes that all young people should be provided with appropriate education in a safe, stable, containing learning environment.
SEMH TA's will be working with a secondary aged pupils who has severe complex needs including attachment disorder. Students are academic and they range from mild learning difficulties to gifted and talented.
SEMH TA's are given opportunities to succeed through the use of highly personalised individual education plans to help support their students.
The Therapeutic Education Department works closely with the nurses, doctors and therapists at the centre and with a wide range of professionals in the community.
This role starts ASAP or school will wait for you to work your notice period interviews will be held next week.
SEMH TA's will need excellent behaviour management skills
Be able to build positive relationships with young people and staff
Team Teach or similar restraint training certificate
Good knowledge/experience working with children with SEMH within an Special needs environment
Special needs learning mentors will need experience working with secondary aged pupils
SEMH TA's will be collaborating with the classroom teacher to define appropriate activities for the pupils in relation to the curriculum
Assessing children who have long or short-term learning difficulties and working with colleagues to identify individual pupils' special needs
Liaising with other professionals, such as social workers, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists and educational psychologists
This is a full time/long term position and will lead to permanent if successful.
Skills and experience required are as follows:
SEN
EBD
Mental Health experience
ASD
Excellent behaviour management
Current DBS on the update service
Classroom experience
Working with primary or secondary
The schools offers:
A committed and enthusiastic staff.
Quality professional development.
An exciting opportunity to shape the future of the school and to set the culture for achievement and progress for all of the pupils.
Purposeful, happy and supportive environment with learning for all at its centre.
If you engage the students in a positive way, this will be a very satisfying role, which would look great on your CV.