Home-School Tutor/Facilitator for 7-year-old Autistic Female
About the role
About Us
A specialised sourcing, training, and support service for families of neurodivergent children and adults.
Role Overview
Facilitate a young child’s home-based learning program as she begins following a mainstream curriculum through the NeuroMe online platform. Support her understanding of learning tasks, help her complete activities appropriately, and accommodate her individual learning, regulation, and sensory needs throughout the school day.
The child can become anxious and overwhelmed and currently has a low tolerance for demands. The role calls for a low-arousal, low-demand, child-led approach, with collaboration across her multidisciplinary team and implementation of relevant support strategies.
Responsibilities
Collaborate with a team to support the child’s needs.
Facilitate social engagement with peers and enhance social learning when needed.
Understand, accommodate, and alleviate sensory difficulties and anxiety around schooling.
Integrate supportive tools into the learning environment as advised by therapists and the multidisciplinary team.
Assist the child with understanding and completing learning tasks.
Remuneration
R120/Hour
Requirements
Experience tutoring, teaching, or working with children, particularly neurodivergent children.
Knowledge or experience relating to neurodivergence, Pathological Demand Avoidance, or autism spectrum disorder is advantageous.
A gentle, kind, supportive, and child-led approach.
Empathy and the ability to set boundaries gently but firmly.
Fluent English.
Familiarity with the NeuroMe learning platform is advantageous.
Teaching experience or a teaching degree or diploma is advantageous.
Available weekdays, Monday to Friday, 08:00–12:00.
Benefits
Training through the NDC Facilitation Academy when the role commences, followed by one month of support sessions in collaboration with the wider multidisciplinary team at the Neurodiversity Centre.