Position Start Date: Immediate Contract Type: Full-time Contract Term: Permanent
Application Close: 05/05/2025 Midnight Date of Interviews: TBC
SEN Teacher
Contract type: Full time, Monday to Friday, TTO
Salary: £25,000 - £40,000pa, dependent on experience
Closing Date: 05/05/2025
Interview date TBC Interviews will be held during the school
day, this will include a formal interview and teaching observation.
Woodend Farm School based in Witham, has an exciting opportunity for a SEN Teacher to join the team here at our expanding, 'Good' Ofsted rated, independent, special school!
At Woodend Farm School we believe every child deserves a quality first education, regardless of background or need. We believe that school should be an environment where a child feels safe, secure and is provided with nurture by professionals that are invested in them. We believe in developing positive and trusting relationships.
Our values are grounded in a determination to be the change we want to see in the world, through passion, commitment and integrity. We want to plant seeds of kindness and compassion in a generation that will help them develop resilience and hope to fulfil their own destinies.
Our success therefore will be measured by the impact we have on the children we work with.
Job Description
At Woodend Farm School our vision is to develop a creative sensory curriculum that enables children to flourish whilst providing them with opportunities in a safe and structured environment to meet their unmet developmental needs surrounding their social, emotional, and mental health. To take children from being Survivors to Strivers to Thrivers. As a SEN Teacher you will be part of this exciting opportunity to work in a new school specifically designed to support students' individual educational needs.
Teaching and Learning Responsibilities
1. Plan and teach inspirational, specialist and highly differentiated lessons using a thematic curriculum approach
2. Make accurate and productive use of assessment to promote good progress
3. Provide a stimulating and well-structured learning environment suitable for pupils with SEMH, ASD, communication difficulties
4. Develop a bespoke, topic-based curriculum that meets the academic, special, and personal development needs of pupils in KS1 and KS2.
5. Keep abreast of developments in the National Curriculum and work with colleagues to establish the overall curriculum for the school including outdoor learning
6. Play a full and active role in the development of the school including individual and whole school improvement
7. Participate in and take responsibility for your continuing personal professional development
8. Support the school through developing a consistent approach to behaviour management, teaching, and learning, marking, assessment etc. following relevant school policies
9. Promote pupil progress through the effective deployment and coordination of support staff including mentors and learning facilitators
General
1. Contribute to the accurate and appropriate use and maintenance of up-to-date recording systems including those related to attendance, behaviour, progress and learning etc.
2. To undertake annual reviews and contribute information to students' undergoing EHCP process
3. To communicate with parents about everyday issues and achievements
4. To be responsible for a specific class and the registration of students
5. Demonstrate a critical understanding of strategies, processes, and developments within SEND and reflect this understanding in daily practice
6. Carry out any other duties appropriate to the level expected of a teacher within a specialist provision
7. Take reasonable care of the health and safety of yourself, other persons, and resources whilst at work
8. Co-operate with the leadership and management of the school as far as is necessary to enable the responsibilities placed upon it under the Health and Safety at Work Act to be performed e.g., operate safe working practices
9. To be responsible for carrying out the appropriate duties set out in your job description
10. You will be expected to carry out your duties in line with our school's policies, procedures, and relevant legislation. You will be made aware of these in your appointment letter, statement of particulars, induction, ongoing performance management and development
11. You are required to promote and actively support the school's responsibilities towards safeguarding. Safeguarding is about keeping both our students and yourself safe and protecting young people from harm, neglect, abuse, and injury. It is about creating safe places, being vigilant and doing something about any concerns you might have.
RESPONSIBLE TO: Head of School
RESPONSIBLE FOR: Class Learning Facilitator
Criteria
In order to be shortlisted for this post, you will need to demonstrate, using examples in your personal statement, that you meet the criteria listed below. Competence may be demonstrated through knowledge, experience, skills, abilities, education, training, work, and other activities.
Employee Specification Criteria Essential/ Desirable - Identified
GENERAL AND SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
1. Excellent classroom practitioner with a clear understanding of how children learn - Essential
2. Knowledge of effective curriculum development in EYFS process KS1 and KS2 - Desirable
3. Ability to work and plan as part of a team - Essential
4. Ability to use a range of classroom management and teaching strategies to engage pupils and promote progress - Essential
5. Skilled in the use of nurture and outdoor learning or able and committed to developing these skills in a short amount of time - Desirable
6. Excellent understanding of assessment and target setting - Essential
7. Ability to differentiate teaching to support all pupils and their SEN - Essential
8. Knowledge of SEND - Essential
9. Ability to mentor Teaching Assistants, ETC's and apprentices and complete relevant paperwork - Essential
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
1. Recent experience of teaching children in the primary phase - Desirable
2. Experience of working with pupils who have social, emotional, and mental health difficulties - Essential
3. Experience of topic-based planning and assessment - Essential
4. Experience of nurture provision and outdoor learning - Desirable
5. Experience of planning and monitoring personal learning package - Essential
6. Experience of implementing intervention strategies to support pupils - Essential
7. Experience of liaison and co-operation with other professional agencies - Desirable
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
1. Qualified Teacher (QTS or equivalent) - Desirable
2. Commitment to continue professional development - Essential
3. Evidence of recent INSET - Desirable
ADDITIONAL FACTORS
1. Ability to work flexibly and co-operatively as a member of the school team - Essential
2. To be positive, sensitive, resilient, enthusiastic, trustworthy, process respectful of confidentiality and promote a good image of the school in the wider community - Essential
3. Willing to participate in additional school activity, and involvement in the wider life of the school - Essential
4. Good organisational skills yet flexible and motivated in attitude to respond to the changing needs of the school - Essential
5. A commitment to the whole school philosophy and a desire to continually strive for improvement- Essential
6. Have a full driving license and a vehicle available for work purposes including the transportation of pupils - Desirable
7. Willingness and ability to undertake Essex Steps training and work within "good practice" guidelines using a range of positive handling strategies, gradual and graded, involved in holding, guiding and escorting safety, from least intrusive to more restrictive holds - Essential
8. Willingness to undertake an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check and an Asylum & Immigration check. Please note that a conviction may not exclude candidates from appointment but will be considered as part of the recruitment process - Essential
9. Willingness to take on the core values of our school in every aspect of their work and develop a Thrive Approach to dealing with behaviour- Essential
NOTE TO APPLICANTS: You will only be shortlisted from the details in your personal statement if you demonstrate that you meet all the essential criteria (marked Essential).
www.woodendfarm.school
Private healthcare after 1 year service
Free onsite parking
Uniform provided
Company pension
Company laptop and phone
Option for free lunches
Information about the School
We believe in investing in people. As professionals in the helping profession, we believe and aspire to offer a better future to those children, young people and families we work with. Success for us means unleashing the potential of each individual we engage with, so they can grow and develop each day, to be better versions of themselves. Our values are grounded in our determination to be the change we want to see in the world, through passion, commitment and integrity. We want to plant a seed of kindness and compassion in a generation that will produce resilience & hope and enable them to fulfill their own destinies.
Our success therefore will be measured in the lives we changed through REACH.
All appointments are subject to safer recruitment requirements to ensure the safeguarding of children and young people. All positions will involve appropriate checks and clearances.
Kevin Quantrill
Pavilion and Sports Ground
West Hanningfield Road
Great Baddow, Chelmsford
Essex, CM2 8HN Telephone: 01376526326
Email: admin@thereachgroup.co.uk
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