Social Skills Teacher

Position: Social Skills Teacher 

Location: Smallfield, Surrey

Salary: £29,344 - £43,360 (M1 - UPS2 Fringe)

Hours: 40 hours per week

Aurora Redehall School 

Part of the Aurora Group, Aurora Redehall School, in Smallfield, Surrey are currently looking to recruit a Social Skills Teacher. Redehall School supports children aged 6-11 years with communication difficulties typically associated with Asperger’s Syndrome and Autism.

Aurora Redehall School is linked to Caterham Education Centre, they share the same Headteacher and Senior Management Team, however each site has its own Assistant Head and team of Teachers and TAs. Although the sites operate separately on the whole, students do cross between sites occasionally.

To take a virtual look around our school please click here: Aurora Redehall

Key Duties:

• Research and develop a knowledge of published programmes, resources and approaches relevant to social skills, to include evaluating the evidence base for approaches and their suitability for students at Redehall School, in collaboration with the therapy team.
• Work with the school’s speech and language therapist and other members of the therapy team to develop students’ social communication skills through a dedicated curriculum and support across the day.
• Contribute to the design and provision of an engaging curriculum.
• Develop schemes of work and differentiated lesson plans.
• Collaborate with teachers, teaching assistants, therapists and intervention team members to gain an understanding of students’ profiles and motivators and to support carry-over of targeted skills consistently across the school day.
• Coach and support staff to use approaches across the day and monitor the effectiveness of these approaches.
• Keep daily records of student progress and observations, recording and sharing this information with relevant staff, parents and carers.
• Input into assessment and reporting on skill development, progress and attainment in relation to students’ communication skills.
• Further develop school wide approaches and initiatives in collaboration with the therapy team to facilitate social interaction and provide opportunities to practice, reflect upon, develop and embed social skills across the day.
• Provide information and advice for parents to support them in embedding key concepts and skills at home.
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The team at Redehall are a family, they believe in working together to achieve the best for their co-workers and students alike. Naturally passionate educators, the whole team strive to exceed expectations at every opportunity. At Redehall we understand “it's about more than education”.

Please note that duties will vary and you will be expected to contribute to the overall aims of Redehall when required.

For the full job description please contact Liz from the recruitment team liz.hudson@the-aurora-group.com

Skills and Qualifications

• PGCE, QTS, or equivalent teaching qualification and evidence of in-service training
• Experience of working with children with ASD and social communication differences.
• An understanding of social skills and appropriate strategies used to support them.
• Motivation to develop knowledge about social communication by carrying out independent research with the support of the school’s speech and language therapist.
• Knowledge and understanding of the variety of different ways that students learn and potential barriers to learning

Benefits and Additional Information

Be part of our successful team and also benefit from a generous package that includes:

• Life assurance
• Teachers' pension
• Perkbox - offering high street discounts
• Employee assistance programme
• Car lease scheme
• Fully funded training and qualifications
• Bike to work scheme
• Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.

How to apply:

You can apply online by completing our online application form. For more information on this position please contact Liz on 07918 585258 / liz.hudson@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.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.