SEN Teacher

Job overview

Role: SEN Teacher with a Reading specialism

SEN/SEMH School, Bedlington, Northumberland

Full Time: 40 Hours per week

Salary: £30,888.35 - £40,343.96 per annum depending on qualifications and experience.

I am supporting the school to find an enthusiastic and ambitious Teacher to join their team.

Requirements:

• Qualified Teacher Status
• Specialism in Reading and Phonics
• Evidence of successful teaching experience with vulnerable children.
• Good interpersonal skills and emotional resilience in working with children.
• Up to date knowledge of Local Authority and National expectations for SEND including 2014 SEND Code of Practice including knowledge of EHCP and their implementation.
• Good awareness of and clear ability to safeguard children by developing appropriate relationships, personal boundaries and maintaining discipline.
• Ability to work well unsupervised and use initiative effectively.
• Confidence to review own performance and undertake continuous professional learning.

As a Teacher you will:

• Maintain consistently high standards in relation to all aspects of the Teachers’ Standards
• Be responsible for student attainment and progress.
• Ensure Quality First Teaching is central to your practice, accelerates progress and celebrates outcomes.
• To lead on Reading throughout school to raise whole school standards and aspirations.
• Plan, teach and deliver an engaging, bespoke, and personalised curriculum underpinned by EHCP need.
• Expertise in delivering a holistic, inclusive, and creative curriculum rooted in unconditional Positive Regard and pupil outcomes.
• Contribute positively to policy and practice.
• Be a role model for the learning community.
• Make a significant contribution and impact in all aspects of school improvement.
• Engage with all school systems professionally to ensure the vision for excellence is maintained.
• Use dedicated time to develop your CPD profile and be the 'best you can be’.

The School Team needs someone who will buy in to their ethos:

• to encourage intellectual curiosity, critical perception and respect for learning. We strongly encourage individual responsibility, self-esteem and confidence as well as care, concern and respect for others.

If you buy in to the ethos, your performance will meet the needs of the students and help them contribute to society effectively.

This role is for a Teacher at an independent day special school catering for pupils with SEMH and Autism. It is co-educational and can accept up to 40 pupils aged between 10 and 18 years. The school draws pupils from across the North East and provides an environment where pupils can begin to address many of challenges that may confront them. We aim to provide a safe non-threatening environment where issues of abuse, bullying and social exclusion can be addressed.

We are located in a semi-rural location, on the edge of Bedlington, Northumberland. The School is housed in a mix of historic buildings, which provide extensive facilities to support a developing curriculum. We take pride in providing a happy, safe and caring environment, where everyone is enthusiastic about learning. Staff are dedicated to meeting the individual needs of pupils and are committed to developing their ability to grow into resourceful young adults.

All of our staff are experienced in working effectively with vulnerable teenagers who have learning difficulties and/or social and emotional development issues caused by Adverse Childhood Experiences. Our skilled and dedicated staff tailor individual behaviour management strategies to improve students’ trust, self-esteem and confidence.

Our team provides therapeutic opportunities to enable students to unpick and think about their difficult feelings so that they can understand their behaviour and internal conflicts. This enables our young people to develop their ability to build relationships, understand their feelings, manage their own behaviour and eventually become motivated and enthusiastic learners prepared for a successful life beyond school.

The staff receive training in a variety of areas such as the effective use of attachment theory, systemic theory and mental health needs. Staff are also kept up to date with the importance that neuroscience has to play in our understanding of child development.

We pride ourselves in investing in the staff team by providing regular training both internal and external, offering supervision and support.