Chloe

My Requirements

We are looking for someone experienced in SEN to provide support to our family, in our home at Holborough Lakes. Our son, who is almost 6, is currently struggling to access school and now on a part time timetable. He is a lovely boy who is playful, charismatic, funny and loves his special interests including movies and villains, Lego, Switch games and currently arts and crafts. His diagnosis is ASD with a PDA profile, we also believe he has ADHD. He is fully verbal and physically able, his biggest challenges are regulation and demand.

This role is primarily to support the whole family with the dynamic and smooth running of our household. The heart of this is keeping our son well and happy. This may at first look like Chloe (mum) spending more 1:1 time with our son while he becomes familiar with the new situation, with a view to, in time, the Personal Assistant increasing contact time with him. His primary challenge is his Pathological Demand Avoidant profile; he responds well to our adapted low demand approach which we would support the PA to adopt.

Time spent with our son will probably be entirely play based at first e.g lego building, switch playing, arts and crafts. Once a bond has been formed we would hope for this to develop to supporting with his emotional regulation, independence and getting out of the house to do things. In the future we would like him to feel comfortable with this person doing drop offs or pick-ups and perhaps even help with some educational activities.

There are times when our son would prefer to spend time with a family member and instead the role will change to support around the home, or regularly look like a balance of the two. Support around the home may look like meal preparation and cooking, tidying house, preparing and tidying activities, walking the dog, popping out to library, shops, appointments. It should feel like fluid support rather than a structured agreement.

In an ideal world the person filling this position would become a valued part of our family and would be able to develop a special relationship with our son, to help him to thrive at home and also provide some needed respite to the rest of the household.