Job Description

Hours: 41hrs 55mins per week

8.20 - 5.20 (M/T/W/T) 8.20 - 4.45 (F)

40 weeks per year (190 teaching days, 5 staff training days and 5 additional days)

Line Manager: Lead Supervisor

Probationary Period: Six months

You will work alongside our team of Supervisors and qualified Teachers, working directly with a number of allocated pupils for whom you will have direct responsibility. You will ensure the pupils will achieve and flourish at Quest because of effective delivery of, access to and progression through their personalised curriculum, learning support strategies and behaviour plans underpinned by the scientific principles of learning and behaviour (ABA).

You will also be responsible for direct line management of Senior Tutors and ensuring staff are trained and assessed to be teaching at a high quality.

Education:

Oversee full implementation of pupil's individual programmes, including OT, S&L and any other specific requirements. Liaise with consultants (ABA, OT, S&L) to discuss target setting and oversee implementation of agreed targets and strategies. Take responsibility for writing ILPs for allocated pupils. Ensure each allocated new pupil has completed a baseline assessment within 2 months of admission. Ensure each child's NC assessment is updated twice a year (Dec & July). Ensure that each child's IEP is reviewed and updated (in line with review dates) and sent to parents, giving opportunity for parents to discuss. Liaise with Teachers to set termly behaviour and social targets as required. Oversee implementation of curriculum across relevant areas e.g. entry level curriculum. Contribute to development of new curriculum as required e.g. Asdan programmes. Provide educational assessments and other input as part of the admissions process, where required. Provide transition programmes for new pupils. Make home and school visits, where necessary, for new and existing pupils. Oversee the Senior Tutors are monitoring the collection of daily data as required. Provide effective monitoring of pupils' learning progress, and ensure that all relevant data is inputted into the required progress tracking systems. Contribute to the collation and analysis of whole school pupil progress data. Oversee selection and ordering of pupil resources for allocated pupils. Implement pupils' academic programmes in accordance with whole school curriculum plans eg reading scheme, RSE curriculum plan

Pupils' health and wellbeing:

Ensure care plans are up to date and filed in the relevant locations Ensure pupil medications are logged and administered as required and in accordance with the school's policy, including any specified parental paperwork being completed. Ensure that all incident logs for allocated pupils are checked and signed off.

Behavioural Input:

Ensure that behaviour support plan (where appropriate for each child) is in place and kept up to date. Discuss any problematic behaviour when needed with lead supervisor/behaviour consultant to determine appropriate behavioural strategies. Direct staff in implementation of agreed behavioural strategy and data collection. Ensure that behaviour data is collected as agreed and provide charts and graphs as required. Analyse relevant data and provide evidence based direction. Design evidence based behavioural interventions for the reduction of inappropriate and increase of appropriate behaviours. Provide leadership in crisis management incidents for allocated pupils, and provide support for all others. Produce behavioural assessments twice a year. Complete any additional behaviour related documentation as required eg risk of school placement failure, behaviour reduction document etc

Whole School Planning:

Ensure daily rotas for teaching and for break and lunch duties are completed. Contribute to decisions on new class groupings for pupils. Contribute to decisions on new staff teams for each class, per term or as new pupils / staff join. Plan which group lessons / curriculum access / external accreditation is suitable for each class group. Plan which offsite activities are appropriate for each class each term. Oversee / delegate risk assessments for each offsite activity. Participate in the delivery of School Development objectives Attend termly SIP visits or Trustees monitoring visits, and provide reports / data as required

Staff Management & Development / Training:

Ensure excellent training is provided to new staff in implementing ABA teaching and behavioural input. Provide guidance and support to staff in 1:1 work with pupils and in their individual responsibilities. Conduct formal staff appraisals for specified staff as per agreed schedule, providing appropriate feedback. Ensure formal and informal staff appraisals for all staff are implemented according to agreed schedule. Conduct and oversee PIPs when needed Provide direct line management to specified Senior Tutors including regular mentoring and Supervision meetings, as per schedule. Oversee Senior Tutors and ensure they are fulfilling their responsibilities to pupils and staff in their teams. Contribute to the design and delivery of high quality ABA theory training for all teaching staff as required. Complete performance management meetings for allocated staff members, at the required frequency.

Parental Needs:

Ensure parents are provided with agreed regular information (Tapestry observations/memos). Contribute to writing of annual pupil reports and collate reports, ready to be sent to parents. Discuss pupil progress with parents as required. Prepare paperwork for Annual Reviews (AR) and attend AR meetings for allocated pupils. Conduct scheduled parent meetings for allocated pupils. Ensure parents' wishes with regard to high priority target areas are addressed and ensure parents are kept informed of any areas of concern. Ensure all issues raised by parents are acknowledged, recorded and resolved as quickly as possible. Implement issue log as required. Ensure pupil timetables are shared with parents when changes are made.

School Policies & procedures

Ensure all School policies are implemented and followed at all times. Input to School policies and procedures as part of teaching team. Contribute to assigned GDPR areas for data mapping and document retention schedules Attend additional training courses as required eg Team Teach As a term of your employment you may be required to undertake various other duties as reasonably required by the Head Teacher

Person Specification:

Essential:

Extensive knowledge, experience and skills in teaching using the scientific principles of learning and behaviour (ABA)

Experience working of leading a team of ABA tutors or similar and have sound knowledge in all areas of ABA theory

Experience in teaching and promoting communication skills in children with autism, i.e. PECs, Proloquo2go

Demonstrates leadership skills

Experience of managing staff

Demonstrates role model behaviour

Show a willingness to develop skills and theory further under the guidance of external consultants

Ability to deliver training to staff

Be highly motivated

Be a strong team player

Experience of preparing and organising teaching materials

Experience of collective qualitative and quantitative data

Experience of training others in the implementation of ABA techniques and principles

Experience of working in a position that requires the person to show initiative

Good social and communication skills

Ability to work in a fast pace environment, being able to react to situations as and when they arise

Physically and emotionally resilient in order to work with children and young adults with autism

Good IT skills

Desirable

Relevant Degree

BCBA/ UKBA (cert) or BCaBA/aUKBA (cert) qualification

Working towards, or a willingness to work towards BCBA/ UKBA (cert) or BCaBA/aUKBA (cert) qualification

Other requirements

Strong commitment to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people

Willingness to undertake an enhanced DBS and maintain this throughout employment

Commitment to health and safety in the workplace, data protection and equal opportunities in all aspects of work

Job Type: Permanent

Pay: 25,000.00-35,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension Employee mentoring programme Free parking Health & wellbeing programme On-site parking Referral programme Sick pay Store discount
Schedule:

Monday to Friday
Application question(s):

To apply for this role you must fill out our application form: https://questschool.co.uk/staff-recruitment/recruitment/. Have you filled out the form?
Work authorisation:

United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person

Reference ID: ABA Supervisor May 25