WORKING IN SEND
Ideal for those who want to start a new career in SEND in educational or care settings, or those who want to enhance applications for TA/classroom support roles. This level three qualification will help you gain a deeper understanding of SEND, autism spectrum conditions, and how to provide support.
Online or face to face training
100% free
Ten week, term-time duration
Fits in around busy mum life
Nationally accredited with a qualification at the end
Friendly sessions delivered live by a trainer, no ai or pre-recordings here!
One-to-one support available
Bespoke material for education or care
Build a support network and meet other mums returning to work
Topics covered:
- Characteristics and behaviours
- The diagnostic process, support available, legislation, co-occurring conditions
- Coping with change and life events, supporting emotional resilience
- Recognising triggers of distressed behaviour, interventions, respect
- What does a person centred approach look like and support plans
- Career plans, searching and applying for jobs, CVs, application forms, and support for your next steps into work.
This is a comprehensive Level 3 qualification, recognised by schools, colleges, specialist settings and adult education providers all of which are seeking autism trained staff to join their team.
Ideal for those who want to work:
- in any education setting (school, college, or adult education)
- as a TA,
- in specialist provision,
- as an autism practitioner,
- or in any educational role.
Job roles could include – but are not limited to – Autism Practitioner, TA, SEND TA, LSA, Support Worker, Carer, Youth Workers, Childminders, Nursery Practitioners, Teachers, Nannies, Assistant SENDCo’s, Education or Care Admin Staff, SEND Job Coach.
This course is fully funded and has been developed alongside our pool of education employer partners to help more people gain the knowledge and skills needed to work effectively to support SEND in education.
Studying for success on this course
- 10 week course, delivered during term time
- Online: 2 hour weekly webinar during term time. Starting at 10am on a set regular day of the week, but never on a Friday. Your specific day will be confirmed when you sign up.
Or: When this course is offered as Face-to-Face, rather than a weekly webinar online, your interactive session will be face-to-face four hours, 10-2pm, usually held in Bromley. - 15-20 hours of flexible self-guided study per week, with weekly assignments and tasks
- 1 dedicated trainer that will support you all the way through your course and beyond
- 1 dedicated assessor for that extra touch
- Fantastic links to forward thinking flexible employers – that want to employ mums!
- Interesting guest speakers to provide added value and build your network
- Work experience as an option wherever possible
“I didn’t have any qualifications in SEND so this course really helped.”
Jeanette
Equipment for success
To study, you’ll need a laptop or computer. Your webinar will take place on Zoom and your learning and assignments will use the educational platform “Equal”. This doesn’t work well on a phone or an iPad, so a laptop or computer is best.
If you receive benefits and are registered with a Work Coach at a Job Centre, they’ll be able to put in a request to help with your access to a laptop. It’s best to do this as soon as possible before you start your course.
You’ll need access to Zoom – a free account is absolutely fine. All you need is an email address to get started.
Successful outcomes
When you complete this course you will gain a recognised qualification in education to help your CV stand out: Level 3 Understanding Autism – full of the skills you’ll need to start working in special educational needs in any setting.
At the end of your course, we’ll make sure you have at least one of the following successful outcomes:
- A job
- Are supported in your job search
- Can progress to another suitable course – with us or another provider
- Or are signposted according to your new career path
Pre-requisites
This is not a repeat of school and there are no set requirements. The nature of what we do for parents means it may have been some time since you did any learning, or you may think you don’t have any qualifications at all.
We run a very basic appraisal with you, designed to help us know which of our courses will work the best for you. It may be best for you to do more than one course with us to help you on your career path. And for some of our courses that help you gain level 3 qualifications, it may be better for you to complete one of our level 2 qualifications first.
We offer several progression pathways to help you get to where you want to be. We’ve helped over 10,000 mums back to work or start a business and we can help you too.
Additional support needs
There is space on your application to tell us about any additional support you may need. We’re happy to support learners and there are many things we can do to achieve this. It will depend on each learner’s circumstances and we would prefer to discuss with you as part of your onboarding process.
With one simple step, you can start your journey to rebuild your confidence, start working in SEND, in a flexible role that fits around your family. All it takes is a sign up.
Once we receive your sign up, one of our lovely onboarding team gives you a call. We work remotely, so this may be from a mobile number. If you have call screening enabled, we’ll tell you we’re calling from Successful Mums. If we miss you, we’ll leave you a voicemail. Don’t want to wait, or not sure it was us – you can return any call on our main number 020 3633 9672.
In our phone call we’ll discuss any work or career aims you may already have – but don’t worry if you don’t – that’s what we’re here for. And if it’s been a while since you studied, don’t worry, we’ll figure that out too.
We’ll discuss your start date – this course is delivered term-time with various start dates thorughout the term and the year.
“Take the chance and learn something new to make a huge impact for others and see the world from another perspective.”
Dannielle
