I live in london and am considering EOTAS for my son who has ASD and ADHD. He is super bright but mainstream and special schools haven’t worked for him for all sorts of reasons so I am looking at EOTAS.
Basically I want to recruit an awesome teacher who can run it all for us, someone vibrant and energetic who can flex learning according to my son and deal with the fact that because of his challenges the days can be hard and lessons need to constantly flex. This person would have a nanny / teaching assistant to support who could take my son out to social groups and things to break up the day and give them a break.
My challenge is how to find this person. I can pay £65k p/a which i think compares well to school salaries (?) though the job will be hard, no doubt about it (nb: he is not violent or anything, just really hard to teach). I don’t want to use the local authority provision as i want to be in control of finding a person myself, governess agencies seem more focussed on nannies and homework than a proper educator who can figure out how to deliver the national curriculum to a SEN kid full time, and SEN-tutor agencies seem focussed on ad hoc tutoring.
I looked at some websites but they only seem to work with schools.
As teachers, where would you look for roles?
And also, objectively what would a good / experienced teacher’s concerns be about a role like this? Does it seem too much to ask? I thought it could be a good fit for someone who wanted a change from the classroom for a year or two. We’re also a genuinely nice family (i think).