Autism Professional Development for Staff
Our innovative staff development strategy is an area of strength. It equips and inspires staff to achieve our mission:
“To build safe, independent lives through support, understanding and enablement”
Every member of staff who works at Springfields is an Autism Practitioner. Therefore all colleagues are supported to understand and enable autistic young people through a bespoke training pathway in relation to their role within the Academy. You can find out more about our innovative and original approach to professional development below.
staff development big picture.pdf
Our commitment to developing effective autism practice is reflected through our performance management targets. Through a personalised, autism-focused target, staff members develop their confidence, skills and experience in working with autistic children.
To reflect the contribution that every role makes towards supporting children with autism, the academy has developed a range of role-specific autism competencies. Staff are supported the achieve these competencies through our on-going professional learning programme.
Our autism competencies:
- Autism Competencies Support Staff
- Autism SEND Teacher Advanced Competencies 2
- Autism SEND Teacher Core Competencies
- Autism Support Worker Core Competencies
- Autism Therapeutic Advanced Competencies
- Autism Therapeutic Core Competencies
- Care Advanced Competencies
- Lead Autism Support Worker Advanced Competencies
