What skills and experience we're looking for
We wish to appoint a highly effective teacher who is inspiring and passionate about teaching Humanities and eager to make a difference. We can offer you the opportunity to work as part of a hardworking and highly motivated team focused on raising standards and providing an exciting, challenging and relevant curriculum which ensures our pupils make excellent progress and outcomes. We are focused on preparing our pupils for life beyond Churchill academically, socially and independently and have a very high quality personal development curriculum where pupils are able to access a wide range of enrichment experiences.
We would love to hear from you if you are:
- A talented, creative and inspiring Humanities teacher
- Experienced in teaching pupils in Key Stage 2, 3 or 4 with evidence of at least good progress
- A well organised team player with good interpersonal skills
- Enthusiastic, positive and hard working and has a ‘can do’ approach
- Committed to inclusive practice
What the school offers its staff
We are a special school with a unique environment which caters for 70 pupils aged between 8 and 18 working at age related expectations or just below. Our pupils have language and communication difficulties and high functioning autism. Pupils at Churchill school are at the centre of everything we do. We have high expectations for both behaviour and achievement and see that every learner has a unique personality and talents to be developed. Our learners access a GCSE curriculum from year 9 onwards.
Geography is one of the GCSE subjects in our GCSE curriculum offer. Class sizes are either 11 or 12 pupils with a teacher and two teaching assistants. We recently had our ungraded Ofsted Inspection in October 2024 and we are very proud to have been judged to have taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at the previous inspection, which was in 2019 where the school was graded outstanding. Pupils love our school. ‘Pupils love their school as this is a place where they can be themselves. Pupils build important social skills and make friends. Adults support pupils to celebrate their neurodiversity and recognise the shared similarities they have with others, regardless of background. One pupil echoed many others by saying ‘this is a school that any pupil in the world would want to go to’ (Ofsted 2024). Please click on the link to read our report:
We are part of the Unity Schools Partnership Trust, which has about 35 schools across the counties, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex.
Working for the trust comes with many benefits such as:
- Electric vehicle leasing scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted gym membership
- Free eye test vouchers
- Free flu vouchers
- Access to Telus (Wellbeing support APP)
- 2 week October half term
Further details about the role
Contract: Full Time, Permanent, 33.25 hours per week
Salary: MPS 1-6 (£31,650-£43,607) plus SEN Allowance
Start date: Required from April 2025
Closing date: 14th February 2025
Interview date: w/c 24th February 2025
Commitment to safeguarding
Unity Schools Partnership is committed to safer recruitment, equal opportunities, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be required.