Therapy Support Assistant
Addington Special School
Woodley, Reading
- £21,943 - £25,184 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- plus £1,162 SEN Allowance
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 30 January 2022
Job overview
Working under the guidance and direction of a qualified Occupational Therapist, you will provide a specialised service to improve pupils’ access to the school curriculum and will support the leadership team in providing safe moving and handling practices for the school.
With previous experience of working in an educational setting with children and teenagers with SEND (especially ASD, Complex and Sensory Needs, Behaviour Support and ADHD), you will have worked collaboratively as part of a multi-professional team and will have excellent interpersonal and team working skills. The successful applicant will be patient and will have a non-confrontational approach to adults and children and will be able to prioritise and use initiative to provide a positive approach to challenges.
You will assist with developing OT/Physiotherapy programmes for individual pupils and will support with monitoring the implementation of those programmes by class staff. Providing support to ensure best manual handling practice, you will plan and deliver training to school staff and devise and review moving and handling plans. Procurement of specialist equipment, involvement in inspections of equipment and planned preventative maintenance will also be a requirement of this role.
You will have access to excellent professional development centred on teaching strategies for children and young people with special needs and disabilities.
Please contact Amanda Cherry, HR Officer on 0118 966 9073 if you wish to discuss this position further.
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About Addington Special School
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- Addington Special School
- Woodlands Avenue, Woodley, Reading
- Berkshire
- RG5 3EU
- United Kingdom
Addington School is an Outstanding Special School for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. All our pupils’ primary need is a learning difficulty that is either moderate, severe or profound, with up to 50 percent also having Autism.
All our pupils have an Education and Health Care Plan and we are currently accommodating up to 290 pupils, aged between 3 and 19 years across 2 sites.
Based in Woodley and Farley Hill and currently a Wokingham maintained school, we are very fortunate to have 2 purpose built environments which make our schools fantastic places for learning and wider curriculum enrichment. At Farley Hill, we have a new 40 place Nursery to Year 1 Early Years Centre that admitted 16 new pupils in September 23. We will admit a further 16 in September 24, and a further 8 in September 25 to complete the 40 place provision.
We tailor a personalised Educational Programme for every pupil to ensure that they reach their full potential as well as providing a bespoke sequential curriculum steeped in SEND pedagogy. The school has a long history of being outstanding and in March 2023 secured Outstanding again under the new Ofsted Framework.
We have particular strengths in our Creative Arts with Music a particular focus for all our students and have considerable expertise in teaching strategies for pupils with learning difficulties as well as Autism and Down Syndrome.
We believe in a positive ethos based on a culture of mutual respect and openness, where we are all learning together to be 'a community committed to excellence and the development of the potential of all’.
We pride ourselves in our commitment to induction, professional development and on-going support to all our staff.
Our Aims
- To know that what we do is making a difference to the lives of our young people.
- To continue to promote an inclusive approach to educational life.
- To expand our Parent and Community Partnership.
- To provide a learning environment based on mutual respect and self-advocacy.
- To create a challenging forward thinking culture.
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