Midday Supervisor - Downley

Chiltern Wood School is a Special School currently supporting over 200 students ranging from ages 3 to 19 years, located across three sites in Cressex, Studley Green and Downley. We offer the opportunity to become part of a team of caring professionals, contributing purposefully to meeting the special educational needs of children in the High Wycombe area. You will be well supported by welcoming and knowledgeable staff within a well-run, hard-working school which holds as its core value the wellbeing of its pupils, parents and staff. Our Downley site caters for pupils with a range of special educational needs from profound and learning difficulties, complex medical needs and severe learning difficulties with communication, physical and sensory needs. We pride ourselves on building positive relationships with our pupils, their families and supporting professionals to enable communication, physical, social and emotional development for each individual. We have extensive facilities on site to support this development and provide learning opportunities through a variety of experiences, lessons and routines. As a school, we strive to continually improve our practice, and aim to secure only the very best outcomes for our pupils through high quality provision and practice. Previous experience is desired but not essential. If you are interested in learning how to contribute purposefully to the educational and social development of children and young people and you feel you have the qualities to successfully attend to their welfare and emotional needs, we want to hear from you! As Midday Supervisor you will be supporting the classes for 4 hours per day, 10am - 2pm, to include supervision over the lunch period. Previous experience is not essential as full training will be provided, however experience of a learning through play environment would be beneficial. Training opportunities may include: Using a communication book / device Low arousal approach Behaviour and de-escalation Occupational therapy basics including sensory regulation Child protection Online safety and GDPR Administering medication Introduction to dysphagia We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications Chiltern Wood School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to full vetting checks, including a disclosure of criminal records at an enhanced level, online searches and satisfactory references For full details please visit www.chilternwood.bucks.sch.uk and see the job description below Please note, we cannot accept CVs and application form must be completed via My New Term. Please note, we do not accept applications and supporting statements that have used AI.