Overview and Responsibilities
SEN Class Teacher – Hedgeway
Location: Pilning, Bristol, BS35 4JN
Salary: £31,650 - £47,338 (M1 – UPS2)*
Hours : 40 hours per week
Aurora Hedgeway is a dynamic and inspiring provision for children and young people aged 7-19 with a primary or secondary diagnosis of Autism and related social and communication needs.
The Aurora Group
The Aurora Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.
We are currently looking for an experienced Full Time Teacher for our Aurora Hedgeway School. The school supports young people aged 7 - 19 with a primary or secondary diagnosis of Autism and related social and communication needs.
We offer life skills and a wide range of GCSE/ Functional Skills/BTEC accreditations alongside a functional skills/entry level pathway. Behaviours across the school are excellent.
Experience of teaching a range of subjects at KS3/KS4 and/or experience of delivering GCSE, entry level and functional skills maths and English, or any other accreditation is essential.
The Role
We are looking for an inspirational and engaging Secondary Class Teacher to deliver high quality teaching and learning to children and young people with autism and complex needs such as ADHD, OCD and PDA, who may present with challenging behaviours associated with their autism. Some pupils may have multiple learning difficulties.
Your role will be to provide high quality teaching that will enable pupils to make progress not just academically but socially and emotionally. You must be creative and have high expectations. An understanding of ASC would is essential to support the planning and delivery of a broad and balanced curriculum to enable our pupils to achieve their full potential in all areas.
To facilitate this, you’ll plan and deliver lessons that support young people achieving accreditation on a variety of academic pathways. You will be able to support the young people to be independent and resilient learners both in and outside of the classroom.
You’ll supervise and provide support and guidance to our Teaching Assistants and Higher Level Teaching Assistants and play a key role in their Professional Development Reviews.
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 our pupils; informing Pastoral/clinical/ SEND support teams and any other relevant professionals of any concerns.
Skills and Qualifications
Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:
* Qualified Teacher status
* Experience in achieving outstanding outcomes
* 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 strong nurturing relationships with young people
* 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.
* A flexible approach, a high level creativity and the ability to adapt teaching to meet individual needs
* Experience of managing a small team of teaching assistants.
Benefits and Additional Information
What’s on offer?
* Training and Development
* Save money on your bills!!
* Competitive Pay and Reward
* UK Health Cash Plan
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Refer a friend for £1,000
How to apply?
Please complete an online application form in full, remembering to include all employment and education details. If you need any assistance or would like any more information please contact Karen in the Aurora Group Recruitment Team at adele.richard@the-aurora-group.com.
*Within Aurora we support teacher professional development by offering Upper Pay Scale both to teachers joining the company and through our internal professional development and performance management process.
To be offered a role on Upper Pay Scale we will expect you to:
* provide evidence that you are already receiving an Upper Pay Scale salary.
* Hold specific allocated responsibility, once you have completed your induction, that contributes to whole school improvement including the overall raising of standards in the school and demonstrate their ongoing commitment to their own CPD.
Details of the relevant area of responsibility will be discussed with you at interview and further when you join the company.
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 the Aurora Group is 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.
The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.
This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.
Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.