What skills and experience we're looking for
Chellow Heights Special School would like to appoint a Class Teacher to join our expanding team to work in small classes of pupils in a special school setting. The successful candidate will be an outstanding practitioner with passion and commitment to make a difference.
We are looking to recruit teachers who are experienced in working with children with a range of special needs. The post will be based at either the West or South site. You will work as part of a team of specialist staff to contribute to the effective and efficient teaching and learning of pupils with additional needs and will:
• Teach and support pupils in a special school setting with reference to their education, social and emotional development liaising with colleagues, parents/carers and other professionals
• Support the social and emotional wellbeing of children and young people by adopting an attachment aware and trauma informed approach to all practice. Applying agreed strategies for managing wellbeing including classroom management that fosters a nurturing and Emotion Coaching approach
What the school offers its staff
Mission Statement:
At Chellow Heights we are working towards our goal of providing an outstanding, world class educational provision and an exciting, specialist learning environment.
We endeavour to use innovative solutions and specialist technology to develop new ways to support children and families through research and development in order to tackle the challenges facing learners, families, staff, and communities in a modern society.
As such, we will be fulfilling the wider Bradford Vision for special schools of education, co‑location, co‑operation.
Our Purpose
Is to enable learners to be happy, healthy and enjoy life, to develop as fully as possible their self help, independence, communication and social skills to be confident and able to make decisions and achieve personal goals. We will do this through a learning environment which enables everyone to feel safe, secure, valued and happy.
Our Values:
Inclusive, challenging, holistic, patience, tolerance, innovation, confidentiality, curiosity, dignity.
Our approach is:
Inclusive, challenging, holistic, compassionate, professional, encouraging, consistent, energetic, happy, innovative.
Awards
We are very proud to have gained a number of awards for our work in school.
Further details about the role
Chellow Heights is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful staff will be requested to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check and where applicable a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants as part of our overall vetting checks.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) provides that when applying for certain jobs, certain spent convictions and cautions are protected and they do not need to be disclosed to employers. If they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website and further information about filtering offences can be found in DBS filtering guide.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.