Teacher

Location: Bucknall, Stoke on Trent

Salary: £30,000 - £41,333 (M1 - M6)

Hours: 40 hours per week, Term time only

SEN school - part of a group of 25 SEN schools across the UK

Tis Schools Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.

Maths/STEM teacher within the Secondary Department (Key Stage 3-5)

Skills and experience required -

• Qualified Teacher status
• 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 nurturing relationships with young peope
• 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 important.
• A flexible, innovative approach and a high level creativity

You will have the skills and knowledge to deliver relevant qualifications to SEN students. ECTs are welcome to apply.

This is an exciting time to join this school as they look to review the curriculum, and are looking for someone dynamic and inspirational to join them on their journey.

Classes are based on 6/7 pupils in a group, with a Teacher and a TA.

The main purpose of the role:

As the Maths/STEM teacher, your role will be to provide high quality, challenging and differentiated educational activities and experiences through the teaching of a broad and balanced curriculum to enable pupils to achieve their full potential in all areas of learning.

To facilitate this, you’ll plan and deliver lessons according to DFE guidance and the school’s policies and be responsible for the day to day running of the class and other relevant aspects of the running of the school.

You’ll supervise and provide support and guidance to Teaching Assistants and Higher Level Teaching Assistants.

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 care/medical/behavioural support teams and any other relevant professionals of any concerns.

They are looking for someone who is kind, supportive and goes the extra mile to ensure every child makes progress, both academically and socially.

Key duties:

• Deliver the curriculum as prescribed by our schemes of work.
• Adapt lessons and tasks in line with best autism practice to enable students to engage and achieve
• Effectively plan lessons that are stimulating, relevant and well-structured to a wide range of abilities and communication needs to ensure all students are able to participate and reach their full potential.
• Work with the Head Teacher and other members of the leadership team to ensure the successful delivery of the vision, ethos, aims and objectives of the School.
• Deliver the ethos of the school and the educational vision and direction which enables effective teaching and support, successful learning and achievement by students and sustained improvement in their spiritual, moral, social, cultural, mental and physical well-being in preparation for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.
• Deliver effective teaching and learning and monitor and evaluate the quality of teaching support and standards of students’ achievement, using benchmarks and setting targets for improvement.
• Monitor, evaluate and review practice in the classroom and implement strategies to ensure that under-performance is challenged and appropriate changes to practice are implemented.
• Participate in the recruitment and retention of the best employees and ensure an effective induction for all new starters.
• Work in partnership with all school staff, parents, carers and other agencies in providing for the academic, spiritual, moral, social, emotional and cultural well-being of students and their families.

Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required.

Integritas Education Recruitment and School Staffing Ltd are acting as an employment businesses 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.