At Orchard Manor School, we offer our learners access to additional support from the Special Partnership Trust's Specialist Intervention Therapy Team (SITT).  Danielle Davies is our SIT Coordinator here on site.  

The Specialist Intervention Team aims to:

• Provide early identification of a child/young person’s needs and offer early therapeutic intervention. This intervention is personalised, highly specialised and integrated support that delivers positive outcomes for children/young people.
• Further develop an equitable offer enabling fair access to therapeutic services which is delivered based on identified need. The SITT approach is child-centred and holistic, with a clear focus on the input of children/young people and their families as part of the therapeutic programme; providing families with specialist information, advice and support.
• Develop a sustainable, multi-disciplinary, specialist intervention resource working innovatively in schools, across the Trust, with multi-agency partners across Cornwall and Devon.
• Develop professional career pathways, supported by expertise that support the Trust's recruitment, retention and reward strategies. Developing and retaining highly skilled staff ensuring that the Trust is able to meet the needs of all children and young people in Trust provision and across Cornwall and Devon.

The Specialist Intervention Team (SIT) is available to all children and young people across the Special Partnership Trust. The team work on a referral basis. These referrals must be made by the class/leadership teams within the schools.

The SIT supports access to therapeutic input across three pathways, with all learners accessing Pathway 1 as part of the school offer. The three pathways reflect the level of therapeutic input needed in order for that child/young person to access their education.

Some learners will move between pathways as their needs change. Others will remain on one pathway for their school career due to their needs.

A variety of audits, including Pathway 1 and EHCP Provision audits, support individual settings to continue to grow and develop their universal offer in order to meet the needs of their changing cohorts. The SIT triage process can identify trends in need and gaps in provision.

If significant and recurrent needs are identified, the specialist Intervention Service supports by offering/identifying continuing professional development opportunities for school staff, ensuring changing needs can be met within universal provision and/or works alongside external agencies and service providers to identify specialist support/ training/ intervention.

Each Area of Need that has external therapeutic service options has it’s own SIT offer with differentiated pathways: Communication and Interaction, Sensory and/or Physical, Social, Emotional, Mental Health (SEMH) and Health (in development).

Within each offer, SIT covers six areas to ensure all aspects of support, input and stakeholders are accounted for:

Please download the Specialist Intervention Service Offer for settings across the Special Partnership Trust (SPT) via the link below if you require further information.