Therapy Assistant

5 days ago

Croydon, United Kingdom Academics Full time

**Therapy Assistant - ASD - Aspiring Speech and Language Therapist - Surrey**

**The School**:
Secondary/post 16 learning centre for young people with Autism and associated social, emotional, and communication needs based near Croydon. The school has a brand new state of the art conversion with fit-for-purpose facilities that meet the individual needsof the pupils. With that in mind, it is a really exciting time to join. The school has close links with other schools in the community and it forms part of a larger group of specialist school settings.

Due to the age of the students, there is a key focus on developing life skills that the students will need once they have completed their education at post 16.

**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.

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