Home-School Tutor/Facilitator for 7-year-old Autistic Female

The child in question is a sweet, yet feisty, and very bright little girlwho loves gadgets, swimming, and playing outdoors. She will be starting to follow amainstream curriculum at home, via the NeuroMe online platform. A facilitatorhas been requested by her parents to oversee the program and assist in herlearning experience.

Main Purpose of the job: In this role, youwill have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the educationaljourney of this child. Your responsibilities will include assisting her withunderstanding learning tasks, completing them appropriately, and supporting herindividual learning, regulation, and sensory needs throughout the school day.The child is anxious and easily overwhelmed, and currently has a low tolerancefor managing demands. Managing these feelings appropriately will be animportant part of the job. A low arousal/demand, and child-led approach tolearning will be paramount in this role. It will be necessary to work closelywith her multidisciplinary team and implement relevant support strategiesnecessary for further learning and development.  A suitable candidate should be interested in neurodiversity and have apassion for supporting neurodivergent individuals.

Requirements

Job Requirements:

∙        Experience tutoring/teaching/working with children,particularly those that are neurodivergent.

∙        Experience/learning relating to neurodivergence,Pathological Demand Avoidance and autism spectrum disorder are advantageous

∙        A gentle and kind, supportive, and child-led approachto working with children.

∙        Availability weekdays - 08h00 - 12h00 (Mon to Fri)

∙        Fluent in English

∙        Candidate should pride themselves in their empathy,kindness and ability to implement boundaries in a gentle but firm manner.

∙        Familiarity with the NeuroMe learning platform would beadvantageous.

∙        A background / experience in teaching, or a teachingdegree or diploma would be advantageous.

Job Objectives:

∙        To collaborate with a team to support the child’sneeds.

∙        To facilitate social engagements with peers when neededand enhance social learning.

∙        To understand, accommodate and alleviate her sensorydifficulties and anxiety around schooling.

∙        Integrate supportive tools into the learning environment asadvised by her therapists and multi-disciplinary team.

Benefits

There will be anopportunity to be trained by the NDC Facilitation Academy when the rolecommences, and support sessions are provided for one month thereafter, workingin collaboration with the wider multidisciplinary team based at theNeurodiversity Centre.