Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full-time, 32.5 hours per week
The Brook Academy in Gloucestershire are currently searching for an experienced Class Teacher to join their friendly and supportive team.
The Brook Academy is a Special School supporting young people with Social Emotional and Mental Health as their primary need and Speech, Language and Communication Need as a secondary need. Our mission is to consistently deliver excellent educational experiences for young people aged 11-16, improving their life chances and serving the communities of which we are a member through Equity in Education.
The school community core value is Equity, Resilience, and Togetherness. This drives our reflective practice of ensuring a positive impact to meet the need of every child through Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion, Wellbeing, Digital, Voice, Leadership, Operating at Larger Scale and Environment.
We aim to provide all our students with opportunities for widening participation and strengthening relationships to ensure high expectations in their behaviour and attitudes for personal development and achievements in their academic and vocational learning. We aim to empower all our staffing team in their roles by investing in high quality CPD to enable them to carry out their roles faithfully and meet the needs of both the school community and Trust wide commitment of Equity through education. We will be delighted to welcome colleagues inspired by our vision to join us.
About you:
You will be:
* a qualified teacher or hold an equivalent teaching qualification.
* able to deliver the curriculum in your chosen area and consistently teach high quality lessons across relevant key stages.
* able to meet the needs of learners from key identified groups, including pupil premium, looked after children, SEND and High Attaining students.
* a strong communicator with the ability to embrace change, motivate colleagues and build positive relationships with students, staff and parents.
* able to recognise, value and support the delivery of opportunities which extend beyond the confines of classroom delivery and seek to enrich and add value to the students experience & learning.
* empowered to develop your own expert practice and support the development of others.
* highly competent in all elements of the Teachers’ Standards and your achievements and contribution will be substantial and sustained as an Upper Pay Scale teacher.
What we can offer you:
* Access to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme.
* Comprehensive induction and ongoing support for career development and wellbeing.
* Sector-leading professional development entitlement and opportunities.
* Collaboration with colleagues across the trust through subject communities and specialist networks.
* Shared CLF curriculum, written and curated by trust experts, reducing individual teacher workload.
* Career enhancing and progression opportunities within the trust and through the CLF Institute.
* A collaborative culture which supports workload.
* Well-being support through an Employee Assistance Programme.
* Health benefits, including wellness sessions, gym discounts, and flu jabs.
* A range of generous family leave options, including above industry average occupational maternity pay.
* Additional benefits like cycle to work scheme, on-site parking and many more!
As part of our commitment to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), we do not accept CVs – a full education and employment history must be provided through our application form.
The Cabot Learning Federation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All roles across the trust have a varying level of responsibility for ensuring safeguarding practice, with some roles holding significant responsibility and involving working with children on a daily basis in regulated activity. Regardless of the level of responsibility and involvement in each role, we expect all staff, visiting professionals and volunteers to share this commitment.
All successful candidates will undergo a comprehensive pre-employment checking process, including an enhanced DBS check (including a further check against the appropriate barred list), references from current and previous employers, health, right to work in the UK, child disqualification, prohibition from teaching/management and online checks. You must also tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
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