Thrive Practitioner
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Overview and Responsibilities
Thrive Practitioner
Location: Aurora Cedars Wolverhampton
Contract Type: Fulltime Permanent
Hours: Fulltime 40 hours per week Term time only
Salary: 14.77 p/hr to 16.13 p/hr depending on qualifications and experience (Annual salary 26391 to 28821
Closing Date: Thursday 24th April
Interview Date: Wednesday 30th April
The Aurora Group
The Aurora Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities. It is an exciting time to be part of Aurora and this is a unique career opportunity to be instrumental in the development of a new school and to make your mark on our growing services.
Aurora Cedars School in Wolverhampton will offer a bespoke education provision for up to 80 pupils aged 519 who have ASC/SEMH needs. The curriculum is creative and personalised for the pupils to ensure that we provide them with the best opportunities to succeed.
The Headteacher is looking for fun passionate dedicated and driven staff to help support her vision for the pupils and the school environment. She is committed to offering a truly unique workplace environment embedded with a supportive culture positive ethos strong teamwork and personal drive with further career opportunities as both the school and Aurora as a company grows.
We are currently looking for a Thrive Practitioner to join our new school.
The main purpose of the role:
The purpose of the THRIVE practitioner is to ensure the day to day running of a THRIVE provision to support the development social emotional and behavioural needs of pupils improving their active engagement in their social and academic environments and access to learning.
Key duties:
- Take responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils according to the schools policies including safeguarding and PREVENT.
- 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
- Provide play and artsbased 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
- To work alongside the SLT and clinical team to actively assess pupils progress and create up to date action plans through regular Thrive assessments
- Keep statistical data as requested by SENDCO and/or clinical team
- Develop and contribute to the delivering of staff training in order to implement and embed the Thrive Approach model across the school.
A Full and detailed Job Description is available to view here: Cedars CED Thrive Practitioner April
Skills and Qualifications
Qualifications
- GCSE pass above C (or 4 in the new GCSE system) in English and Maths
- Desirable: THRIVE training or willingness to undertake practitioner training
- Desirable: PRICE or equivilant trained or willingness to undertake training
Knowledge and Experience
- Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedures
- Relevant knowledge and experience of pupils with SEN ADHD and ASD
- Experience of working with children in an educational setting
- Desirable: Experience of running nurture groups/social skills groups
Skills and Behaviours
- Commitment to the role the desire to put the child first and treat them as an individual
- Be positive and creative in meeting pupils needs
- Can work unaccompanied and as a member of a team understanding their role in school and associated responsibilities
- Work collaboratively with other staff and professionals with good interpersonal skills
- Good numeracy and literacy skills
- Competent ICT skills
- Be flexible adaptable and solution focused.
- Ability to manage emotional demands of working with young people with a wide range of behavioural social and emotional issues
- Ability to work under pressure
- Desirable: Can actively selfevaluate learning needs and seek out learning opportunities
Benefits and Additional Information
Whats on offer
- Training and Development
Within Aurora we strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people we support. We offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all our employees to improve your skills and further your career.
- on your bills!!
With the cost of living rising we have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further. Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are. You can get deals and discounts to on things like your weekly food bill phone plans internet eating out gym memberships insurance and more. You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme.
- Competitive Pay and Reward
Every year we compare the market rates of pay and rewards to insure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations. We also offer Enhanced Annual Leave Company Sick Pay Enhanced Pension and Life Assurance.
- UK Health Cash Plan
This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills. You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.
- Employee Assistance Programme
Your health and wellbeing is very important to us and we have support available on a wide variety of issues helping you with online tools information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7.
- Refer a friend for 1000
Well reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company *terms apply)
How to apply
Please complete an online application form in full remembering to include all employment and education details. If you need any assistance or would like any more information please contact Karen in the Aurora Group Recruitment Team at
Successful applicants will be subject to preemployment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are spent unless they are protected under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.
This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.
Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.
If you are successful at interview there may be delays in us being able to offer you the post if we are unable to verify your ID in person at interview.
Please note that shortlisted candidates might be subject to an online search.
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