Teacher

Job Title: Teacher

Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent

Responsible to: Team Manager

Location: East Lancashire

Pay: £34,329

Job description

Our vision and values

We are an attachment and trauma-informed multidisciplinary service who aim to provide assessment, stabilisation, treatment and intervention for children and young people with complex mental health needs to promote their health, well-being and independence. Respect, compassion and person-centred care are central principles at Aaban, and we pride ourselves in recruiting staff who share our values. We work hard to create a culture that encourages and recognises the unique contributions our staff make to ensure the delivery of high-quality care.

JOB SUMMARY:

The key roles of this post will include:

1. To work with identified children and young people in order to help overcome barriers to learning as a result of their social, emotional and mental health difficulties.

2. To work in collaboration with the Specialist Teacher for Behaviour in developing and implementing specialist Learning Plans.

3. To plan and deliver learning activities to children and young people, differentiating and modifying specialist activities and strategies according to children or young people’s responses/needs.

4. To inform, develop and enhance the practice of school and setting support staff, in relation to meeting the behaviour, social, emotional and mental health needs to secure effective learning.

5. To organise and manage appropriate learning environment, strategies and resources in order to support effective access to learning.

6. To establish productive working relationships with children and young people, challenge and motivate them, promote and reinforce self-esteem, act as a role model and set high expectations.

7. To support children and young people, in or out of the classroom, in order to achieve learning plan targets. This could be through one to one, as a group, or in-class intervention.

8. To provide feedback (verbal/written or both) to children and young people in relation to their progress, achievement, and behaviour.

9. To maintain effective internal and external relationships in order to assist in the co-ordination of the requirements of children and young people with, social, emotional and mental health needs, and their families.

10. To work within a multi-agency framework to support inclusion and access in accordance with the relevant legislation, guidance and local policies.

11. To maintain all records required by schools, settings and Primary Behaviour Support in order to enable monitoring of quality, delivery and outcomes.

12. To select and prepare ICT and resources to support access to learning activities that meet children and young people’s individual needs.

13. To monitor and advise on the appropriate use of specialist social, emotional and mental health strategies.

14. To make a positive contribution towards improving behaviour.

To engage with the annual review process for individual children and young people in order to report on progress and inform future targets. To assist in the delivery of training and development opportunities.

15. To support the role of parents in children and young people’s learning and contribute to meetings with parents in order to provide constructive feedback on progress/achievement.

16. To undertake continuous professional development, in order to build individual and team flexibility to respond to service demand.

17. To undertake training relevant to the role.

18. To adhere to the policies and overall ethos of each school and setting worked in.

19. To understand, attend appropriate training and operate in accordance with safeguarding and child protection requirements.

20. To conduct, as required, any other tasks deemed appropriate to the post.

21. To attend and contribute to team and whole service meetings as required.

22. To undertake any other duties commensurate with the grade of post as directed by the Head of Service.

We ask that you can demonstrate the values needed for a role, transferable skills and life experience and in return we will give you all the training and support you need to progress:

Resilience – We support some of the most vulnerable children in society who have varying degrees of mental health difficulties, emotional behavioural difficulties, autism, ADHD and associated difficulties so there will be times where your resilience is challenged.

Communication – Communicating with our young people is vital to understand their needs. Good teamwork and communication plays a key part in ensuring important information is relayed to other staff.

Organisation – You will have experience of organising, planning and teaching well-structured lessons tailored to the needs of the young people as well as monitoring learning needs, adapting teaching to respond to the strengths and needs of each pupil.

Caring – Our young people require the best care we can offer. If you are a naturally caring and compassionate person, this is the role for you.

Attentive – No two tasks will be the same so being attentive to understand the needs of the young people we support is vital

Please APPLY now and we'll be in touch with you within 24 hours.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £34,329.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Free parking
• On-site parking

Application question(s):

• What location are you based please?

Experience:

• Teaching: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person