✨ Hiring: THRIVE Practitioner
Location: Redhill, Surrey
We are seeking a skilled and compassionate THRIVE Practitioner to join a dedicated school in Redhill. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact within a specialist educational setting, supporting young people aged 11-16 who require support with social communication, emotional regulation, and sensory processing.
Your core purpose will be to support our Pastoral Lead and SENDCo in the day-to-day running of a vital THRIVE provision, improving students' active engagement and access to learning.
🎯 Key Responsibilities
- 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.
📋 Role Details & Requirements
Salary & Terms
- Contract: Permanent
- Actual Salary: £27,713 - £30,250
- Welcome Bonus: £2,000 for candidates with relevant SEN Experience
- Hours: 40 hours per week (Term Time)
- Mon/Tue/Wed: 8:15am - 4:45pm
- Thursday: 8:15am - 5:00pm
- Friday: 8:15am - 4:00pm
What We Need From You
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
🎁 Your Benefits Package
Be part of the successful team and benefit from a generous package that includes:
- Life assurance & Enhanced 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
- Free on-site parking
- Enhanced Pension
✉️ How to Apply
Interested or would like more information? please contact Keziya Chilumuru in the Randstad Education Recruitment Team at keziya.chilumuru@randstad.co.uk
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