Therapy Assistant

Crowdys Hill School, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN2 7HJ

19 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  To be confirmed

• Closing date

  24 February 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  23 January 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £12,490.00 Annually (Actual) 21 hours per week (flexible), term time only, paid over 12 months

Therapy Assistant job summary

Crowdys Hill School is a dynamic and expanding special school for students in Swindon, Wiltshire and the surrounding areas, with moderate learning difficulties and complex needs. We have a new and unique opportunity for a passionate Therapy Assistant to join our supportive and dynamic therapy team based in an SEN school in Swindon.We can offer opportunities to work with students from the age of 4 to 19 across the curriculum, within a range of learning environments including our on-site farm, sensory rooms and supporting functional skills.

Our team includes

• four speech and language therapists,
• a specialist teacher
• two speech and language therapy assistants..

Crowdys Hill School can support you to develop your skills working with complex needs, autism and associated SLCN.

You will have opportunities to manage an identified caseload and implement a range of OT and sensory strategies, under supervision.

This will include

• 1:1 and group sessions
• interpreting reports and producing and maintaining visual supports for sensory diets

You will model the use of strategies in class and model links between sensory needs and communication.

Part of your role will include managing our sensory rooms and therapy/breakout rooms, conducting audits of equipment and visuals.

You will also be responsible for editing AAC devices and making learning activities e.g. talking books, Colourful Semantics, and Clicker 8.

You will have the opportunity to liaise with a variety of other professionals, with lots of scope for CPD. This is a new role that will evolve over time and if successful could lead to a permanent position.

Visits to the school are highly encouraged. Please contact Trudy Topp ttopp@crowdyshill.swindon.sch.uk to arrange.

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.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Crowdys Hill School

• School type: Special school, ages 4 to 19
• School size: 306 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Crowdys Hill School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/crowdys-hill-school (opens in new tab)

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