Therapeutic Behaviour Support Practitioner
Teaching Personnel
- Arundel, West Sussex
- £170 per day
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Experience working with or caring for children with Special Educational Needs and challenging behaviour.
- Commitment to understanding and supporting children with complex needs and providing unconditional support to them.
- A patient, kind and loving manner.
- Advising and leading a small group and one-to-one behaviour support interventions across the school.
- In collaboration with others, develop and review Positive Handling plans for all children.
- As part of a team, be involved in the monitoring and signing off physical intervention records across the organisation.
- Understand and report on patterns of behaviour to inform the individual needs of the children and therapeutic interventions / input required.
- To maintain excellent training records and organisation with regards to training delivered and ensure this is clearly evidenced and certificate to staff are distributed once training completed.
- To ensure staff receive Team Teach training and refreshers in a timely manner and within set timescales.
- Be confident in delivering training, supporting, and upskilling employees in de-escalation and behaviour management strategies and techniques.
- To be part of our restraint reduction initiative, developing your skills and knowledge in terms of strategies aimed at reducing physical interventions across the community.
- Attendance at conferences and external and internal training that share such strategies and learnings from other organisations and communities.
- Integrate the training and behaviour management in line also with the school’s therapeutic model and ethos, working on the belief and theory that behaviour has meaning and often stems from the children’s previous traumatic experiences.
- To develop and improve the Team Teach training package and presentation to reflect the school's therapeutic ethos and model.
- To undertake risk assessments where necessary
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