Senior Positive Behaviour Coordinator

A breakthrough can seem like the smallest thing, but it can make the world of difference to someone on the autism spectrum. By becoming a teaching assistant/ learning mentor you’ll help make everyday breakthroughs happen more often.

We need you to be resilient, supportive and sensitive towards the needs of autistic people. Being a teaching assistant/l learning mentor takes bravery, patience and commitment. But working with autistic people gives so much more in return.

You may have a personal connection, a desire to work with or real life experiences working with autistic people. You might not have lots of experience yet, but if you share our values and are willing to make a difference to the lives of autistic people, we’d love to hear from you.

We offer a fantastic one year induction programme, continuing learning and development opportunities, regular one to ones, annual appraisals, and the support you need to develop a career in social care. Along with a host of benefits – from shopping discounts to flexible working and a competitive pension scheme.

We are passionate about supporting autistic people into work, and particularly welcome applications from autistic people. We help autistic people from all backgrounds and strive to represent the same diversity in our staff and volunteers. We particularly encourage applications from people from all minority groups, who are currently under-represented in our workforce. Together, we can create a society that works for autistic people.  

Help make an Everyday Breakthrough happen by joining our team. A breakthrough can seem like the smallest thing, but it can make the world of difference to someone on the autism spectrum. By becoming a Positive Behaviour Coordinator at Sybil Elgar School you’ll help make Every Day Breakthroughs happen more often.

Who we are looking for:

We are a forward-thinking Autism Specific Specialist School seeking a Senior Positive Behaviour Support Coordinator to work with our Transdisciplinary Team (TDT) to support our students within the school.

We cater for up to 90 young people aged 4-22 with Autism. We are developing significant professional and working partnerships with the already established NAS schools drawing on knowledge and expertise through professional working relationships to ensure best practise is shared. 

This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of the school’s continuing development where you will be working closely with our Transdisciplinary Team (TDT) and classroom based staff. As a transdisciplinary team we strive to deliver best practice at all times to our students, and are passionate about continued service and professional development

We aim to deliver the highest level of education and experiences to ensure the best life chances become a sustainable reality for every young person (on an individual needs led basis). Together, we will create a safe, positive and structured environment in which every young person is respected and encouraged to achieve independence (through academic, employment and personal skills development). 

To be considered for this role, you will need to be able to demonstrate a passion and enthusiasm for supporting autistic pupils and have excellent verbal, and written communication skills, as collaborative working within the Transdisciplinary team is essential. You will be flexible in your working practice and a good team player. We are looking to appoint a confident and skilled professional who is committed to developing expertise and specialism within the field. 

You will be actively involved in staff training and there will also be the opportunity to increase your knowledge and skills through participation in team and wider NAS continuing professional development (CPDs) programmes.  

You must hold a Degree in Psychology (2:1 or above) with graduate basis for registration with the British Psychological Society or equivalent experience. We need you to be resilient, supportive and sensitive towards the needs of autistic people.

Along with a host of benefits – from shopping discounts to flexible working and a competitive pension scheme - we’ll make sure you get excellent autism-specific training to help further your career. You will be supported by a Practitioner HCPC Registered Principal Psychologist and will receive regular supervision. In addition, this post offers highly desirable working arrangements with the successful candidate benefiting from 9 non-working weeks per year.