SEN Teacher/ Key Worker

Supply Hive are seeking a dedicated and inspiring Teacher/Support Worker to teach, support, and care for a young female adult with SEN, on a one-to-one basis, across her home, Alternative Provision, and community settings. This role would suit a qualified primary teacher (Key Stage 2) with SEN experience or a qualified teacher working at a Specialist Secondary School (teaching Entry Level Functional Skills). The role offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful difference to a young person’s life by designing and teaching a tailored and bespoke Entry Level Functional Skills and life skills programme, combining educational learning with practical life and independence skills. You will work as part of the young person’s Alternative Provision multi-disciplinary team, working alongside speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, art therapy, and counselling psychology. You will also help and support the young person to participate in fun and engaging activities in the local community and at home. You will provide one-to-one support, care, and safeguarding across all settings.


Key Responsibilities:

• Develop a steadfast and trusted relationship with the young person rooted in genuine empathy, deep intuition, and compassionate understanding.
• Facilitate the young person’s personal development by fostering self-esteem, self-advocacy, a strong sense of identity, and trust in their potential.
• Advocate for the young person when needed. Be pro-active and determined to ensure that the young person’s needs are met.
• Provide holistic support: prioritise emotional wellbeing, communication, social interaction, and independence and life skills. Help the young adult to develop the practical skills necessary for everyday life and further education. Develop a thorough understanding of the young person’s likes and dislikes, interests, and needs, and embed these into the young person’s everyday teaching, activities, support, and care.
• As part of the young person’s Alternative Provision, research Entry Level Functional Skills examination boards and qualifications. Plan and deliver tailored one-to-one Entry Level Functional Skills lessons including English, Maths, and subjects such as Cooking, Art, Science, ICT ensuring that all lessons are accessible, engaging, relevant to person’s needs and abilities, and in line with the person’s overall life goals as they move into young adulthood. Tailor teaching strategies to meet the young person’s needs. Encourage and support the young adult to learn and develop through having fun, tailoring and delivering curriculum, content, and activities to tie in with their passions, interests, and hobbies. Assess and monitor performance. Prepare the young person for accreditation, working towards functional skills qualifications and other appropriate accreditations.
• Incorporate community activities into the young person’s day-to-day life and weekly programme.
• Develop a collaborative and positive working relationship with the young person, the Alternative Provision multi-disciplinary team, and family.
• Drive the young person to/from all settings. A car will be provided.
• Always provide the young adult with safeguarding across all settings.

Essential Skills and Traits:

• An ability to build steadfast, consistent, and trusted relationships with the young adult with additional needs.
• A genuine desire and passion to understand, support, develop, care, and advocate for the young adult on a 1:1 basis across all settings (Home, Community, and Alternative Provision) throughout the working day; to provide consistent, reliable, and adaptable teaching, support, and care; to develop independence, social skills, and educational learning; and to ensure safeguarding and wellbeing at all times
• Genuine trust, empathy, intuition, reliability, consistency, confidence, inspirational, intelligence, care, respect, a young and fun-loving outlook, a passion for helping and developing others.
• An experienced and qualified Key Stage 2 primary teacher with additional SEN experience or an experienced and qualified specialist secondary school teacher teaching Entry Level Functional Skills. Candidates should have a relevant and recognised QTS or QTLS qualification such as PGCE, Cert Ed, or Level 5 DET.
• Ability, experience, and confidence to assess the young person’s learning levels, abilities, and interests; to select Entry Level Functional Skills board qualifications and modules in collaboration with the family and multi-disciplinary team; to independently plan and develop the teaching programme; to teach the programme on a 1:1 basis, to adapt the programme as required to suit the young person’s communication, learning, anxiety, sensory and processing needs, to prepare the young adult for accreditation, and to gather evidence for board submissions.
• A genuine love of learning through fun, incorporating interests, hobbies and creativity into lessons and activities
• A passion and commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable young adults
• Ideally, an understanding of SEND needs including speech and language disorders, selective mutism, anxiety and sensory disorder
• A relaxed, happy, gentle, positive, and motivating demeanour; someone who has a young outlook, enjoys having fun and living life
• Genuinely self-motivated, enjoys and can work independently but also enjoys collaboration and working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Have own car to get to and from employment and a full clean UK driving license with minimum 3 years driving experience after passing driving license. A car will be provided during working hours.
• Have a full clean Enhanced DBS check
• Verifiable references
• Full, clean UK driving licence with minimum 3 years experience after passing driving test
• Female candidate (Non-Smoker)
• Native English speaker – required for young adult’s additional needs
• Live within a 30 minutes’ drive of Windsor
• Ideally a genuine love of music, arts and crafts, baking, theatre, Disney, and dogs (young adult has a small cute dog!)

At Supply Hive, safeguarding is central to everything we do. All successful applicants will be required to complete enhanced DBS checks and follow strict safeguarding procedures. Pay rates are inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay.
If you’re ready to play a vital role in a child’s learning journey, we’d love to hear from you.

If this role isn’t quite right, explore our other opportunities at www.supplyhive.co.uk