Mental Health Teaching Assistant Role - Maidenhead, United Kingdom - GSL Education

GSL Education

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Maidenhead, United Kingdom

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Job Title:
Mental Health Teaching Assistant role/LSA role in Autism

Location:
Windsor and Maidenhead

Salary Scale:
£78 per day

Start Date: 21/06/23

End Date:
Mid July 2023 with the opportunity to extend in September 2023

Contract type:
Long Term Contract, 5 days a week, 8:30 - 16:00
Can you build a comfort and productive relationship with a student that is so effective, the student progresses to college and apprenticeship - can you change the course of their life?

Could you aid in helping autistic children help discover their identity, what they stand for and how their Autism is a part of their personality? This MHTA and SEN LSA role is nuanced, you will see the difference between mental health and special educational needs, in a role and school like this.

Of course, life and the role is not that linear, vulnerable children are surrounded by vulnerable adults and will be exposed to trauma and the opportunity to make decisions that are not in their best interest.

GSL realise the role that sincerity plays in any form of advocacy, be it in the mental health or special educational needs settings.

If you have sincere empathy and know your reasons, your drive for helping children and vulnerable people who have been through severe trauma, being let down poorly by the adult world.

Positive approach in this specialist school for Autistic children, high to low support.

The school values Restorative and empathetic practices, empathy drives connection, this is a key aspect that vulnerable children who have been through significant trauma will really respond to, this is one aspect of connection that are looking for, not pity and sympathy.

_2 key questions to always remind yourself of when taking on this LSA role when you are working with your students:_

_Can you make the student's life just that little bit better today and keep them safe?_

_Can you demonstrate the value of an education to the students?_

These are 2 of the key aspects of this role, you must be sincere and understand this role and roles similar, are very challenging.

This LSA role is not easy, each boy has a different context for their mental health and trauma, their own idiosyncrasies that will be different from their classmates.

Their behaviour will likely be unpredictable and will often be dictated by the adults and environments they are exposed to, outside of school.

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Please be advised that this role requires a strong knowledge and understanding of safeguarding and child protection and that successful applicants must satisfy all background safer recruitment checks including an enhanced DBS on the update service.
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