using job websites to find ABA tutors

[KarlosKKrinkelbeim]

Back on the tutor recruitment bandwagon again .... I always use gumtree, which is OK, and I know about PEACH, vb community and the rest but what I'm wondering is if any of the pay jobsites are worth it? Jobsite, for example, will let you advertise for £99, but there's no point making the investment if it doesn't attract people in the right skillset.
75% of the job with DS now is school shadowing, so it's not such an unusual job to be advertising now outside a specialist forum - most people "get" the idea of an LSA/teaching assistant, the ABA stuff can be explained once you get an interested and intelligent candidate!
If anyone has views or experiences to share I'd be so grateful.

Must admit I found and trained up a couple of gems as tutors/LSAs from nannyselect

good thought, thank you!
many brains are defo better than one on this kind of thing

The thing that worked the best was going to the 'usual' sites and searching under location, for tutors that had advertised near me regardless of how many years ago it was.

I got a few 'how did you get my email address?' questions from those that had moved on but the rest were able to say 'oh, yeah, I have some availability' iyswim.

Though I guess if they are x number of years more experienced they might charge more.

Good luck.

That is also a good idea, thank you.
Another thing I had considered was going to some of the agencies who recruit teaching assistants, though I expect their fees would bleed us white (to the extent that 3.5 years of this hasn't already).

Yes teaching assistants are a good idea. There are three things I found most important in tutors, probably in this order: a good brain, experience with kids, ABA experience. I put ABA third, because I always used to use shadowing other tutors and training from the superviser to get them up to speed on ABA.

childcare.co.uk is another one I've used before (think it has a free part and a part with annual fee)

ABA-UK, the yahoo group is another source.

I have used ABA-tutor finder, with mixed results (some excellent ones, some not so much). You do have to pay a bit to see the CVs though.

Hi
I am looking for a ABA tutor for my 5 years old son for after school and weekend as well ( 2-3hours per session).I live in ilford ( East London) .Inexperienced person can be trained by ABA consultant. psychologist student/TA/ working with children in special need preferable.

If anyone interested please email me [email protected]