Therapeutic Education Practitioner
TCES Create in the Community
Barking and Dagenham, Community locations across London, with regular travel to the TCES Create in the Community’s Therapy and Life Skills Hub in East London.
- £23,161 - £25,355 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 1 April 2024
Job overview
Job Purpose
To look at our pupils holistically and carry out specific direct educational work within the community which will support our pupils in achieving their Education and Health Care Plan (EHCP) targets and/or any social care plans.
To create leadership opportunities for our pupils that encourage and support self development, responsibility and resilience.
Main duties and responsibilities
Support the class teacher (virtually) in ensuring the best possible outcomes for pupils; including the delivery of lessons and related educational activities as specified in the pupils EHCP and any other relevant documentation.
Collaboratively plan, deliver and monitor creative and innovative lessons and projects in accordance with the aims of the relevant documentation, and to work towards good practice outcomes; drawing on a range of resources both from within TCES and utilising appropriate community facilities and activities e.g., internet access, libraries, museums, and historical sites.
Liaise with senior leadership in developing a comprehensive risk assessment and management program, providing appropriate supervision for all your assigned pupils.
Responsible for home/school liaison over matters of attendance, therapeutic support, behaviour support and academic progress.
Ensure that student attendance is reported daily at set times each day to attendance team & geographical cluster leads.
Act as the appropriate adult during working hours and until the pupil is handed over to another adult; in accordance with the pupil’s Service Proposal, collect, meet and/or return the pupil to the designated location / person.
Alongside teaching staff, initiate a system of rewards which act as strategies to encourage achievement and the development of self-esteem.
Look at our pupils holistically, drawing on a wide range of social care, therapeutic and teaching strategies to meet pupil needs.
To adhere to both Local Authority and TCES’ Child Protection Procedures and ensure at all times that the welfare of the pupil is paramount.
Complete contracts of work and behavioural contracts with pupils, with involvement from their families.
Promote the safety and well-being of the pupils at all times and to ensure that any Child Protection/Family Protection concerns are communicated appropriately and swiftly to senior TCES staff so that all necessary measures may be taken to safeguard and support those concerned.
Maintain awareness of and commitment to the Health and Safety needs of the pupils in their care including adults having contact with them.
Ensure that pupils understand the TCES Complaints Procedures and their right to remain free from harm.
Prepare and submit reports for parents/carers and the LA within given time frames
Ensure the pupils documentation is reviewed and updated half termly.
Complete a Daly Educational Record (DER) each day and upload to online system.
Complete a weekly communication report; collaborate with Cluster Lead(s) to quality assure and send on to parents/carers and required external stakeholders by the end of the week as directed.
Attend daily schedule morning staff briefing, and after school de-breif, on-site or virtually.
Attend weekly scheduled Friday staff training at pre-determined locations.
Ensure pupils attend daily scheduled assemblies and weekly scheduled celebration assemblies on site or virtually.
Travel with pupils to therapy hub(s) to engage with specialist therapeutic interventions.
About TCES Create in the Community
- TCES Create in the Community
- 3 Queens Road, Barking
- Essex
- IG11 8GD
- United Kingdom
The Complete Education Solution (TCES) is an independent social enterprise, providing specialist therapeutic education based in London supporting exceptional neurodiverse children and young people aged 7 to 19 who have special educational needs and disabilities typically associated with autism, social emotional and mental health needs and associated disorders. Most of them will have experienced multiple placement breakdowns and significant trauma, often resulting in behaviour that challenges. On average pupils will have been excluded from other provisions up to three times before reaching us and had significant periods out of education. We are committed to achieving the best outcome for each pupil and their family through access to excellent education and family support.
TCES Create in the Community runs parallel to our independent day schools. Here education focuses on the developmental milestones and a holistic curriculum. Every pupil goes through a different journey with Create in the Community, with highly differentiated and personalised education programmes developed for each pupil who need intensive support as part of our ‘step down’ mode.
On joining us, pupils will have already – on average – experienced three permanent exclusions, been out of full-time education for up to 18 months and are recognised to be substantially at risk of being unemployed, developing severe mental health problems and involvement with the criminal justice system later in life. Between 3 and 5 years after leaving a TCES school or service, 90% of our students are in education, training or employment.
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