The Willows Primary School, Ipswich, Suffolk IP2 9ER MPR -UPR (£30,000 - £46,525 FTE) 5 mornings per week 1-year fixed term contract from 1 September 2024 – 31 August 2025 Reference: 6066 Required from September 2024 Think you know The Willows? Think again… Welcome to a new era where high educational expectations and empathetic connections are at the heart of our mission to improve lives; a place where children are challenged and inspired to be Fun, Involved, Self-aware Heroes. We are building a fortress where our ethos and curriculum will enable children to wonder about, experience and feel their world, gaining skills and knowledge that will inspire big dreams about what they can become and self-worth so they value who they are. There is no doubt that you will need resilience, creativity and kindness to meet the challenges that each day will bring at our school but by joining us you will be ensuring the children at The Willows get the inspiring educational opportunities and experience they need and deserve. We need your skills and enthusiasm to make our vision a reality and having taken our first steps we are now seeking an experienced champion of children (teacher) who has a passion for teaching children with special educational needs to join our team. Working closely with our fantastic SENDCo, you will be teaching a small group of children with EHCPs / complex needs to ensure they make great progress from their varied starting points, and they experience success as part of the small group and their home class. The class will follow a broad, balanced and personalised curriculum, which enables children’s academic learning alongside their speech and language skills, early play skills, social skills and emotional literacy development. Knowledge and experience teaching in an early years setting or specialist provision would be particularly advantageous to the role. We would like to recruit a teacher for September 2024, who: has knowledge and experience in mainstream primary or early years’ teaching and SEND or special school/specialist unit teaching has excellent teaching skills, particularly in early literacy and numeracy is skilled in managing and understanding behaviour, including social-emotional needs can work as part of a team is flexible, skilled, and committed to working with children with SEND can plan and deliver a specialised curriculum to children with learning difficulties including writing personalised targets and making accurate assessments knows SEND and inclusive strategies to help children develop to their full potential in all areas. So why not be ‘the change you want to see in the world’ and apply to work with us. To find out more Please read the Job Description (pdf), Person Specification (pdf) and Equal Opportunities Form (docx) Visits to our school are most welcome, to arrange, please email: officethewillows.omat.org.uk How to apply Please complete the Application Form (docx) and email to: officethewillows.omat.org.uk Closing date: 9am, 12 July 2024. The Willows Primary School is an Orwell Multi Academy Trust Academy, and we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.