Job Ref: 215875301

Date: 2022-02-22 15:59:24

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Aspiring Art Therapist – Autism- Milton Keynes – Education and Training – Aspiring Art Therapist – Autism- Milton Keynes – LSA role for an Art Graduate who has sincere ambitions within Art Therapy.

Art and creative Graduates wanted! £75 per day, Monday to Friday – Immediate start when compliant until the end of July 2022 – Ideal experience before or after a MSc.

For 2022, this LSA role will give you experience working in a very diverse, Autistic setting – this is a very challenging role on a number of levels, depending on where you are placed in school. Where you are placed in the school also depends on your personal, career objectives. You could be working with students with extensive, complex social needs to very sweet, loving students with profound and multiple learning challenges.

This role is very challenging, Autistic students will always struggle to have empathy, if they can display or comprehend it all. This means thins will happen in role that may seem personal, they almost never are, this LSA role will help you build up your resilience.

The students range from those who are cognitively very capable, academically, to children with a very low level of learning and who will require personal care. It's a good example of how diverse and the complicated role Autism plays in society.

Can you make the student's life just that little bit better today, keep them safe and demonstrate the value of an education to the students? In addition, can you keep the children safe? You will get a great deal of SEN and safeguarding training, MAPA Training included.

Aspiring Art Therapist – Autism- Milton Keynes – Education and Training – Aspiring Art Therapist – Autism- Milton Keynes

**7-17, Primary, and Secondary aged students all with EHCPs – Some of the students will have Autism and Aspergers, OCD

**Delivering Key and Personal skills to students who will be in varying degrees of engagement, each day can be incredibly different

**Physical work combined with being pragmatic, making as much academic progress as each child's context allows

** All training and support provided by the school with their excellent training system, there will always be some anti-social behaviour in these contexts.

**Number of Therapies introduced and holistic processes, a little progress is a cause for success here

**Positive engagement, giving the children a sense of acceptance, talking therapy will not always work here so different approaches required

**Giving the students objectives and as much independence as is possible, especially if the students are in assisted

Aspiring Art Therapist – Autism- Milton Keynes – Education and Training – Aspiring Art Therapist – Autism- Milton Keynes – Aspiring Art Therapist – Autism- Milton Keynes – Education and Training – Aspiring Art Therapist – Autism- Milton Keynes

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