Aspiring Art Therapist Barnet – Art Graduate

Aspiring Art Therapist Barnet – Art Graduate – Education and Training – Aspiring Art Therapist Barnet – Art Graduate


GSL have a Graduate SEN LSA role within a specialist school for children with Mental health challenges, Autism and associated, Complex Social Needs – placed all in a mainstream Secondary school.
The school is looking for sincere graduates with aspirations in Art Therapy, it’s important to be able to qualify and disqualify the sectors for yourself. Art Therapy is a long process, it’s important to know early which parts of it, spark joy for you.


Job Title: Graduate Teaching Assistant role
Location: Barnet
Salary Scale: £85-£90 per day
Start Date: 24/04/2023
End Date: Mid July 2023 with the opportunity to extend in September 2023
Contract type: Long Term Contract, 5 days a week, 8:30 – 16:00

This role will give you experience of working Neurological, respiratory, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, and immune system problems are not uncommon for our learners and present barriers to their access to education.


LSA role to begin immediately, February, is full time, 5 days a week and the school is a specialist school for Autism, mixed to lower-level learners and Profound Multiple Learning Challenges. The school is all through SEN school, 11-18, with classes of no more 6 students at any one time. The school is an area of Barnet that has gone through great change and, frankly, concentrated gentrification.


Many children with Autism and SEMH, within the mainstream. Art and Photography is present with significant communication difficulties which can make it hard for them to express their emotions and to have them acknowledged.
Some of the children will have a very low level of learning, without spaces in the local MLD schools, the school is the only environment that can care and educate them, the best they can. Children with PMLD can often develop a social connection through improvised Art and Music making. Art and Music therapy can be used to create meaningful connections with those who are often isolated and frustrated.

Do you know your future objectives within Therapy and Advocacy, advocating for children and vulnerable adults with low levels of learning, helping them have as much independence as possible, if it is viable. The students will benefit from Speech and Language, Art, OT and Music Therapy, different therapies will be suitable for each class and child.

Aspiring Art Therapist Barnet – Art Graduate – Education and Training – Aspiring Art Therapist Barnet – Art Graduate

If you have personal aspirations within OT, Clinical Psychology, Education Psychology and Child Development, this is a good base and LSA role in which to start with. This SEN Graduate LSA role brings out holistic, therapeutic and restorative qualities and skills, all important aspects of a future role as a Qualified Therapist.
To gain access to the Art MA you desire, it is crucial to have 9-12 months of paid experience under your belt, you need to be able to qualify and disqualify these areas for yourself.

Aspiring Art Therapist Barnet – Art Graduate – Education and Training – Aspiring Art Therapist Barnet – Art Graduate


Please be advised that this role requires a strong knowledge and understanding of safeguarding and child protection and that successful applicants must satisfy all background safer recruitment checks including an enhanced DBS on the update service.

For more information or to register your interest in Aspiring Art Therapist Barnet or to be considered, please click ‘apply now’ to submit your full and up-to-date CV, and one of our dedicated consultants, will be in touch within 24 hours.

Aspiring Art Therapist Barnet – Art Graduate – Education and Training – Aspiring Art Therapist Barnet – Art Graduate

**Autism and PMLD Secondary school
**Parking is available if you drive, good public transport links
**Dependent on the class and the student’s need, elements of personal care will be required
**For specific children with an EHCP in the mainstream - PMLD, ADHD, Aspergers, OCD, Dyslexia and a focus on Social, Emotional and Mental Health challenges
**Some children with PMLD may have severe difficulties seeing, hearing, speaking and moving – this is where the school’s outstanding differentiating and understanding each student’s EHCP comes into play
**Heavy focus on learning through play and focusing on marginal achievements, that can evolve into sustainable progress.
**Outstanding Teaching and support teams in place, a wonderfully holistic and positive atmosphere
**Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language specialists will come into the school from outside agencies, the school utilises many holistic and therapeutical approaches
**Supporting the children in their mainstream classes and then moving to their specialist classes

Aspiring Art Therapist Barnet – Education and Training – Aspiring Art Therapist Barnet