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🌟 THRIVE Practitioner: Make a Difference in SEND Education 🌟

Join an exciting journey at a Secondary School dedicated to supporting young people aged 11-16 with Special Educational Needs (SEN), typically associated with Autism, who require support with social communication, emotional regulation, and sensory processing.

This is a unique opportunity to be part of the school from the very start, helping to shape its successful future.

📍 Role Details

• Job Title: THRIVE Practitioner
• Location: Redhill, Surrey
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Actual Salary: £27,713 - £30,250 per annum (dependent on qualifications)
• Welcome Bonus: £2,000 for candidates with relevant SEN Experience!*
• Hours: 40 hours per week, Term Time Only. (Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday 8:15 am - 4:45 pm, Thursday 8:15 am - 5:00 pm, Friday 8:15 am - 4:00 pm).

📚 About the School

The school provides students with a broad, exciting curriculum, personalized to meet individual needs, interests, and passions. Their model features small classes, high levels of classroom support, and a supernumerary multi-disciplinary intervention team, ensuring every student has the opportunity to achieve.

🔑 The Role: Main Purpose

As a THRIVE Practitioner, you will support the Pastoral Lead and SENDCo in the day-to-day running of the THRIVE provision. Your primary focus will be to support the development, social, emotional, and behavioural needs of students, improving their engagement in both their social and academic environments.

📋 Key Duties

• Use specialist skills, training, or experience to support pupils' emotional development and behaviour needs.
• To support the day to day running of a Thrive provision ensuring that pupils are effectively supervised, implementing timetables, planning, strategies and activities to meet the individual needs of pupils
• Establish positive relationships and partnerships with young people, acting as a role model and responding to the needs of each individual student.
• Provide play and arts-based enjoyable experiences that give young people the opportunity to learn through experience rather than through cognitively based learning.
• Deliver 1:1, small groups and class group sessions
• Establish constructive relationships and partnerships with parents and families and participate in feedback sessions as directed.
• Actively promote inclusive practice across the school to ensure acceptance of all pupils.
• Raise the profile of positive solutions to working with learners at risk.
• Provide the teacher and teaching staff with accurate and objective feedback on pupil progress and other matters, ensuring the availability of supporting evidence.
• To work alongside the lead to actively assess pupil's progress and create up to date action plans through regular Thrive assessments
• Ensure students and parents are provided feedback in relation to developmental, social and emotional progress.
• Keep statistical data as requested by THRIVE lead / coordinator
• Supervise and support other staff, who work with children's emotional and behavioural development
• Contribute to the Annual Review process as required
• Support and contribute to the delivering of staff training in order to implement and embed the Thrive Approach model across the school.

✅ The School is Looking For

Essential Qualifications & Experience:

• GCSE Maths and English Language (minimum Grade 4 or equivalent).
• Up-to-date training relevant to the post.
• Knowledge and experience working with pupils with SEN, including ASD, ADHD, and those with challenging behaviour.
• Understanding of Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedures.
• Knowledge of children's social and emotional development/attachment theory.

Desirable:

• THRIVE training or willingness to undertake practitioner training.
• Experience running nurture groups/social skills groups.

🎁 Benefits Package

• Life Assurance and Enhanced Pension.
• £2,000 Welcome Bonus (payable in two parts after probation and one year service).
• 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 (dental, optical, physio, etc.).
• Free parking.

➡️ How to Apply

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

Are you ready to use your skills to help shape the future of this new school?

Please contact Nandini Bhatnagar  in the Randstad Education Recruitment Team at nandini.k@randstad.co.uk