Salary: MPS - UPS + 1SEN Job type: Full Time, Permanent Start date: September 2025 Apply by: 20 April 2025
Job overview
Join The Castle School Family and Make a Difference!
Are you a passionate and highly motivated classroom teacher with a heart for SEMH?
We are looking for someone who can engage and inspire our incredible students, aged 11-16, with SEMH and ASD needs. As a new and growing provision that opened in September 2022, this is an exciting time to be part of our journey. Join us at this pivotal moment of expansion and help shape the futures of our students. Together, we can create a nurturing and empowering environment where every student thrives.
You will be an exceptional educator who can work within the school team to create student centred, supportive learning environments. You will develop and deliver an exciting, engaging and challenging curriculum in a truly therapeutic setting.
We welcome applications from teachers from all settings who have the desire to change the lives of young people. You will have a passion for person centred learning and therapeutic approaches and be keen to be involved in the growth of this new provision.
If you have the drive, energy and commitment to making a real difference in a fast paced, challenging and dynamic environment then read on…
The core purpose of the role will be to:
* Plan and deliver person centred learning for students with a variety of individual needs.
* Monitor and review student progress and social and emotional development.
* Be part of a positive and inclusive wider school community.
* Work with a wider multi-professional team to develop therapeutic learning environments focused on positive wellbeing for both students and colleagues.
For the successful candidate, we can offer:
* The opportunity to work with highly experienced, devoted colleagues and students who value the experiences we provide, within a dynamic, creative, therapeutic environment.
* A bespoke package of support and CPD to enable you to grow and develop into who you are aspiring to be.
* High levels of support in a caring, positive and inclusive environment.
* Well trained, professional and supportive governors.
* Freedom to innovate and an active role in contributing to the shared vision of the school.
This position will be based at our Theale site RG7 5BZ.
Closing Date: 20th April 2025
Interviews: w/c 28th April 2025
Please be aware we are unable to accept CVs due to our safer recruitment practices. Please ensure that all information is included on the application form.
The Castle School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment and is in line with guidance in KCSIE. All shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a criminal records self-disclosure form. Successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks along with other relevant checks including online searches to help to identify any incidents and/or issues which may be relevant to your suitability for the role, which the school may want to explore further with you.
About The Castle School - Theale
* Church Street, Theale Berkshire RG7 5BZ United Kingdom
* +44 1635 42976
About the school
The Castle School caters for children with a variety of complex learning difficulties from the ages of 4 to 19 offering a range of provision for different ages, stages and needs. In September 2022 we opened a new specialist provision based at Theale for students with Social, Emotional and Mental Health difficulties and Autism aged 11 to 16.
Castle @Theale is a genuinely bespoke, therapeutic environment within which young people are celebrated for who they are and the skills that they have. All students are thoroughly and expertly supported by a wide team of highly skilled professionals to overcome the challenges they face and to enable them to achieve to their very fullest potential.
Our Vision
To create a happy, secure and stimulating learning environment which will encourage and challenge our learners to develop their skills and knowledge as far as they can and provide the best education possible.
The Castle @ Theale as part of The Castle School exists to provide a caring, nurturing and outstanding educational community for the learners of West Berkshire and beyond. Our key purpose is to educate, motivate, inspire and celebrate all children with additional needs and to provide a quality educational experience which encourages equality for all; to develop individual self-worth, esteem and potential in all learners and uphold their rights.
Students at The Castle @ Theale will experience a curriculum planned to meet individual needs. A daily program is planned by the class team that focuses around teaching and learning of a differentiated national curriculum (that is set at an appropriate stage for each student) and personalized EHCP outcomes.
Progress is measured in all areas, including individual wow moments and progress in terms of EHCP outcomes, Skills Builder Frameworks and academic elements of learning and development.
Communication is central to all of our development and oracy is a vital element of all curriculum pathways. Within the planning of all learning and development are opportunities to grow and harness oracy skills. We know that the impact on life beyond school years can be impacted upon greatly by development of being able to communicate to others appropriately and effectively in a wide range of experiences.
We understand that our students need a variety of different environments in order to thrive, learn and develop. Outdoor learning is a very important aspect of our learning experience.
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