Special Education Tutor

**Brain Play**

**Special Education Tutor - STEM**:
**Canterbury, Christchurch City**

$25.00 - $32.80 Hourly Once fully trained hourly pay rate jumps to $32.80

Permanent Part time
- **Paid travel (time spent travelling + kms travelled)**:

- **Paid first aid course, Autism NZ training, + flu jab**:

- **Opportunity for this role to develop into full time**

**Our company**:
We're a small creative team that delivers STEM workshops to students and communities across New Zealand.

We began in Auckland in 2017 teaching after-school coding classes, and since then have expanded our offerings to also teach robotics, electronics, 3D Design and printing, science, Minecraft, and more Our classes have expanded from running purely after-school to also running in school holiday periods, in school classrooms during the day, and in community venues for pop up family events. Our goal is to make STEM exciting and accessible for all, ensuring all our attendees leave our workshops feeling confident and proud of their newly developed skills.

**This role**:
This role in particular is our Special Education Tutor Role, which means you'll be working 1:1 and in small focus groups (of up to 5 students) with students who have additional needs or disabilities such as ASD / Autism.

Our students are all amazing They're passionate about technology, have amazing support around them (teachers, parents, psychologists, OT's, facilitators & of course us - Brain Play) and nearly all are happy, positive, and eager to learn. We do have some students and classes who are more challenging (low motivation, shorter attention span, emotional outbursts). Handovers and team teaching are provided to ensure you feel prepared and confident for these challenging cases.

Our challenging students / school groups love our classes, but have volatile home environments, a history of trauma, and can have a hard time trusting adults, so it's essential our new tutor is understanding, supportive, and willing to break down barriers to get the best out of our students.

We are looking for someone with experience working with students or young people who have a disability, or a neurodiversity. Someone who is positive, can adapt quickly, is supportive & understanding, doesn't fluster when presented with challenges, and enjoys building relationships with students.

**Location**:
We travel for work across the Christchurch region - delivering classes in schools, libraries / community centres, in student homes, and online. You'll see the same students at the same day and time each week and we try to group students by their region to reduce travel in between.

During the school holidays we run less classes for our neurodivergent students, but switch over to run holiday programs and holiday workshops across Christchurch.

**Responsibilities include**:

- Organising activities and equipment (choosing from our activity bank) with students individual needs in mind
- Visiting students at school, at local libraries, online, and in-home (after safety checks conducted by our team)
- Delivering 45 minute - 2 hour classes to students
- Team catch ups - once per fortnight - monthly with our wonderful team to catch up, discuss ideas, provide feedback and work through any challenges and most importantly share our wins
- Leading pop up mainstream events and classes in community spaces (after-school classes & holiday workshops)
- Have availability 3 days per week / 12+ hours per week
- Have experience working with students (aged 5 - 16) who have a neurodiversity or disability
- Have experience working in education settings
- Have great leadership skills - confidence, adaptability, solutions focused, able to manage a group / new situation effectively
- Have experience working unsupervised and independently, without feeling flustered
- Have the ability to bring positivity and resilience to every workday
- Be confident communicating with and tracking interactions with customers and stakeholders
- ** Have your own private & reliable mode of transport**

**Benefits**:

- Once fully trained, the hourly pay rate for this role jumps to $32.80 (training is 6 - 8 weeks)
- We are looking to grow this location so more working hours will be on offer after 6 months and during key times (e.g. school holidays)
- We pay for travel - per km travelled and also time spent in the car
- All training is paid, and can be partly done from home
- We will pay for your first aid certificate and flu jab
- You get to play Minecraft for work - our favourite perk
- Christmas & New Year closure - we shut for the holidays (2.5 - 3.5 weeks)
- This role can be built up to full time hours for the right person

We look forward to welcoming you into our team.

**Next steps**:

- Your experience working with students (work with neurodiverse / disabled students)
- Your STEM experience
- How your availability aligns with the role

A CV is great - don't worry about a cover letter.

**Reference Number**: ChristchurchSpecialEd