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Autism Support Worker - Physical and Sensory

The Springfields Academy, Calne, Wiltshire, SN11 0DS

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• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  30 January 2022 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  7 December 2021

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: Hours/Contract: Part-Time, Term-time, Permanent Contract. 31.25 hours per week, 39 weeks per year
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Grade F, £20,903 rising to a maximum of £22,183, per annum, pro-rata
• Actual salary: Actual Salary: £15,643 rising to a maximum of £16,601 per annum

Autism Support Worker - Physical and Sensory job summary

The Role: We are looking an Autism Support Worker (ASW) to join our Physical and Sensory Curriculum team. This is a unique opportunity to enable our pupils to access our Physical and Sensory Curriculum through sensory enablement sessions, Outdoor Education, Physical Education &/or Creative Arts sessions. The Physical and Sensory ASW would be part of a team of teachers and practitioners from backgrounds in Occupational Therapy, Physical Education and Outdoor Learning. The ASW will support pupils across the academy alongside the Physical and Sensory Team to deliver a personalised autism friendly Physical and Sensory approaches.
The Springfields Academy is a Reach South Academy for young people aged 5-19 with autism. We have 170 pupils attending our Calne site and 40 pupils at our Satellite provision in Salisbury. Our goal is to build safe independent lives for autistic young people through support, understanding and enablement.
Springfields is a fantastic, vibrant and caring community that engages pupils and develops positive attitudes to learning. Our autism approach is accessed by all our pupils and is personalised to meet specific needs. All our pupils have an education, health and care plan.

The Person: The position of Autism Support Worker (ASW) is an exciting opportunity for a passionate and compassionate individual to lead interventions and support our learners with autism.
Key skills:
• To have a good understanding of how Physical and Sensory approaches can support pupils with autism.
• To have a good knowledge and understanding of autism and social communication needs and appropriate strategies to support pupils with this need. E.g. TEACCH
• To have knowledge and understanding of social, emotional & mental health needs and cognitive needs, that affect children and young people's development.
• Excellent listening skills
• An ability to build strong, trusting relationships
• To be resilient and able to take regular responsibility for agreed learning /activities
• Promote and support the inclusion of all pupils in the learning and social skills activities
• To use positive and personalised anxiety management strategies

Desirable:
• Experience in Outdoor Education
• Experience in Physical Education
• Experience of delivering Sensory based Interventions

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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About The Springfields Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 19
• School size: 241 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Springfields Academy website
• Email address: recruitment@reachsouth.org
• Phone number: 01752422955
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-springfields-academy

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