Call/email Alisdair at Integritas Education Recruitment to get an application form and to receive a full job description

This school is part of a UK wide group of 28 Special Needs Schools.

They have an amazing benefits and will pay for all your training.

Essential Criteria: PGCE, Qualified Teacher Status or equivalent teaching qualification and evidence of in-service training.

Contract Type: Full-time, 12 month Fixed Term Contract (covering maternity) 

Hours: 40 hours per week

Salary: M1 – UPS2

We are looking for three experienced Full Time Teachers for this 'Outstanding' rated SEN School. The school supports young people aged 6 - 19 with ASC, communication and sensory needs. They offer life skills and a wide range of GCSE/BTEC accreditations alongside a functional skills/entry level pathway.  Behaviours across the school are excellent.

Experience of teaching a range of subjects at KS2/KS3 or 4 and/or experience of delivering entry level and functional skills maths and English, or any other accreditation e.g. Princes trust would be advantageous.  

Your Skills/Qualifications:

• Qualified Teacher status
• Experience in achieving outstanding outcomes
• Thorough working knowledge of the curriculum and how to adapt this for pupils with SEN
• Experience of working with young people with ASD
• Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedures
• Ability to create and maintain strong nurturing relationships with young people
• Experience of managing a range of approaches to learning, to include the students with anxiety.
• Knowledge of strategies and visual teaching methods to engage reluctant learners.
• A flexible approach, a high level creativity and the ability to adapt teaching to meet individual needs

Benefits:

• Training and Development

This schools' group strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people they support.  They offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all employees to improve skills and further your career. 

• Save money on your bills!!

With the cost of living rising they have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further.  Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are.  You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more.  You can also use Perkbox for the cycle to work scheme and car scheme. 

• Competitive Pay and Reward

Every year they compare the market rates of pay and rewards to insure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations.  They also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Pension and Life Assurance.

• UK Health Cash Plan

This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills.  You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.

• Employee Assistance Programme

Your health and wellbeing is very important and they have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7. 

• Refer a friend for £1,000

They’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)

The Role:

As a lifeskills pathway Class Teacher, your role will be to provide high quality teaching that will enable pupils to make progress not just academically but socially and emotionally. You must be creative and have high expectations. An understanding of ASC would be useful to support the planning and delivery of a broad and balanced curriculum to enable our pupils to achieve their full potential in all areas.

To facilitate this, you’ll plan and deliver lessons that support young people achieving accreditation on a lifeskills pathway. You will be able to support the young people to be independent and resilient learners both in and outside of the classroom.

You’ll supervise and provide support and guidance to Teaching Assistants and Higher Level Teaching Assistants and play a key role in their Professional Development Reviews.

Naturally, you will take responsibility for implementing school policies and practices, including those relating to safeguarding and equality of opportunity. Additionally; you will also be expected to carefully monitoring the health, well-being and personal care of pupils; informing Pastoral/clinical/ SEND support teams and any other relevant professionals of any concerns.

Integritas Education Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment business for this position.

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and we are therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are “spent” unless they are “protected” under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.

As a result of the volume of applications, If we have not contacted you within two weeks of your application being received, then regretfully your application will not be taken forward on this occasion.