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This job expired on 27 May 2022

  • Closing date

    27 May 2022 at 10am

  • Date listed

    9 May 2022

Job details

Job role

  • SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time: 8:30am-4.00pm (1 x 5pm finish 6 times a year) 35 hours per week - 39 weeks per year term time plus 2 weeks during holidays

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

Grade 5 (from £22,926 to £26,840 actual salary)

Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Assistant job summary

We are now expanding our Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) and look to appoint a suitably qualified team of Assistant’s to work under the direction of our Positive Behaviour Support Leader (PBSL). The successful candidates will help drive innovation across the school and work in our Support Hub, providing therapeutic assistance to students who, for a range of personal reasons, need help to attend school and engage in class-based learning. Working closely with class teams, you will help delivery PBS Plans and ensure students’ needs are met on a day to day basis. You will be responsible for the set-up of activities and resources in the Hub with the aim of meeting students’ individual need. You will monitor progress against the plans and work with the wider MDT to review them. You will be a Team Teach trainer (training provided) and will deliver training and coaching to staff across the school, ensuring practice is consistent. You will have experience of working directly with children or young people with learning disabilities / autism who engage in behaviour that challenges. You will be student focussed and work with compassion and empathy.

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 Abbot's Lea School

School type
Special school, ages 3 to 19
School size
271 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 19
Ofsted report
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School website
Abbot's Lea School website
Email address
recruitment@abbotsleaschool.co.uk
Phone number
01514281161
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Abbot’s Lea School is a large and highly successful special school educating nearly 300 students aged 3-19, who, due to their Autism and associated learning differences, require significant specialist support to succeed academically and achieve their full potential.

The school’s mission statement is to be the International Centre of Excellence for Autism.

We ensure outstanding outcomes for all of our students through our unique Philosophy of Education – The ASD Model © which underpins our promotion of:

A – academic progress
S – specialist support
D – development of life skills

We are already an outstanding school (Ofsted, 2016) and now we wish to be the best!

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