Aspiring Art Therapist, Bracknell, Psychology Graduate

Salary: £26,000 per year

Aspiring Art Therapist, Mental Health Support Assistant

Specialist Resource Base in Bracknell

• Would you like the opportunity to gain valuable experience supporting young people with Complex Needs with their Mental Health?
• Have you recently graduated with a degree in a subject such as Psychology/Criminology/Sociology and are looking to train as an Art Therapist?
• Do you want to work alongside and assist Clinical Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Art Therapists, Play Therapists, and Speech and Language Therapists?

This Specialist Resource Base based in a Bracknell Secondary School are looking for a graduate Assistant to join their support team. This is a fantastic opportunity for an aspiring art therapist, aspiring drama therapist, or aspiring psychologist to gain hands on experience supporting young people with Complex Needs and severe Mental Health conditions. This Specialist Provision always has at least one member of staff on the training pathway for these specialist therapies, allocated to members of their support teams.

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.

The role:

• 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

It is vital you are sincere about your objectives and know why you want to work in the mental health sector and provide the best possible foundations for vulnerable students who have suffered several traumas and have been tragically let down by the adult world. These roles are not easy and it takes months, years to build foundations with vulnerable students and young learners.

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