School Psychologist
Aurora Beeches School
Dorset
- Expired
- Salary:
- 40 hours per week
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 12 August 2022
Job overview
School Psychologist
Location: Cranborne, Dorset
Salary: £40,000
Hours: 40 hours per week
The role:
As our School Psychologist, your role will be to provide a clinical psychology service to young people with complex needs, mainly associated with high functioning autism, anxiety, Social and emotional or mental health conditions. you will use psychological models and practices to enhance the learning, cognitive and emotional skills of young people in order to prepare them for adult life and independent living.
Your work will involve consultation with parents, carers, teachers, social workers, doctors and other people involved in the young persons care and education in a variety of ways.
You will be part of a 9 strong therapy team, who consistently band together as a family and strive to support their young people in their development.
- To assess the psychological needs of young people through the most appropriate strategy or approach for that person.
- To liaise with external professionals involved in the care of young people
- To contribute to the training and support needs of families.
- Develop and deliver appropriate therapeutic group interventions.
- Provide tailored individual interventions to young people when required
Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required.
For the full job description and break down of duties, please contact Adele from the recruitment team Adele.richard@the-aurora-group.com
Skills and Qualifications
- Experience working with young people with autism and ages 11-16
- Post graduate clinical qualification in Psychology.
- Registered and accredited with Health & Care Profession Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist
- Demonstrate knowledge and ability to promote the dignity and individuality of young people by encouraging effective communication, making choices and reducing support needs
- Develop positive professional relationships with young people, parents, families and colleagues.
- Promote attitudes that value young people with Special Educational Needs as individuals with a right to be treated with respect.
Benefits and Additional Information
- Full training and continued support
- Life assurance and pension
- Health cash back plan
- Car lease scheme
- Bike to work scheme
- Perk box
- Free parking
For more information on this position please contact Adele from the recruitment team Adele.richard@the-aurora-group.com
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer
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About Aurora Beeches School
Welcome to our Special Needs Secondary School in Cranborne, Dorset
At Aurora Beeches, we believe in giving young people the tools and opportunities to create the lives they want for themselves. With high-quality teaching, an excellent level of individual support and a range of expert-led, integrated therapy, we support students with a range of additional learning needs to create and meet their own goals.
All our students are fully involved in choices around their own programmes, so that whatever their plans are – whether they want to pursue further education, training or employment – they are empowered and supported to create their own futures.
Our School
At Aurora Beeches, we support young people to make choices about their own futures.
We provide high levels of personalised support to help our students to make positive life decisions, work towards gaining qualifications and employability skills for their chosen careers and learn independent ‘preparation for life’ skills.
Our academic and vocational study programmes are designed to help every student access employment or further education, including at Aurora Boveridge College – the further education provider with whom we share our beautiful campus.
Our Facilities
Aurora Beeches is situated within the Aurora Boveridge College campus, a beautiful 50-acre site near the village of Cranborne in the Dorset countryside.
Our students enjoy access to modern, well-equipped classrooms, as well as vocational areas including a digital studio, science lab and art and design base.
Our extensive grounds include horticulture learning areas with large glasshouses, as well as motor vehicle workshops, an animal care unit and excellent sports facilities.
Our Curriculum
We offer a varied curriculum, including academic subjects such as English, maths, science, humanities, and art up to GCSE level, as well as vocational subjects including horticulture, animal care, motor vehicle engineering and digital IT.
We also offer a Forest School programme, delivered on-site in our extensive grounds.
During their time at Aurora Beeches, students have regular appointments with an independent careers advisor and plenty of opportunities to try different work options through our work-based learning programme.
Alongside working on the skills needed for employment or further study, our students also engage with our therapy team to support their long-term success and to develop essential independent living skills.
Our Outcomes
We are proud to list evidence of the progress and performance of our students (for the previous academic year) below -
· 100% of students who took A-level Chemistry achieved A*
· 100% of students who took A-level Mathematics achieved A*
· 100% of students who took GCSE Geography achieved grade 6
· 100% of students who took GCSE History achieved grade 5
· 67% of students who took GCSE English Language achieved grade 5 or higher
· 100% of students achieved Level 3 Practical Horticultural Skills
· 100% of students achieved Entry Level Science
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