What skills and experience we're looking for
Qualifications
• Qualified Teacher Status – Essential
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development – Desirable
• Willingness and desire to undertake further professional development and training – Desirable
Experience, Knowledge and Skills
• Experience of planning and teaching Primary or Secondary curriculum – Essential
• Able to demonstrate successful teaching experience with evidence of exemplary practice – Essential
• Experience working with children with Special Educational Needs – Desirable
• Understanding of how children with MLD learn and effectively apply their learning – Desirable
• Knowledge of the National Curriculum, including Programmes of Study and national strategies related to the teaching of the subject areas – Essential
• Ability to promote good progress and outcomes by students – Essential
• Ability to demonstrate good subject and curriculum knowledge – Essential
• Ability to make accurate and productive use of assessment – Essential
Personal Qualities
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Reliability and integrity
• Highly affective time management skills and an ability to meet deadlines and work under sustained pressure.
• Ability to successfully work in collaboration with colleagues
• Ability to relate to young people in a positive manner
• Willingness to constructively challenge the work of self and others to continually improve own and team performance
• To show loyalty and commitment to the school, supporting whole school initiatives and raising standards and achievement.
• Commitment to equal opportunities and a willingness to promote spiritual, social, moral and cultural development.
What the school offers its staff
Alfriston School is based in Beaconsfield. The school benefits from outstanding modern facilities, all of our classrooms are fully equipped with interactive screens and access to class sets of laptops or iPads. All teachers are provided with a laptop that is renewed every three years. The school enjoys a recently modernised performing arts and music facilities that include the use of a dance studio, sound/recording studio and performance space, along with our exceptional sports facilities that caters for a range of indoor and outdoor activities including mountain biking, trampolining, cycling, football and many others. The school also enjoys use of its spacious swimming pool designed by a bespoke architect, as part of an upgrade of the sports facilities at Alfriston, the architects developed a concertina-like roof structure that echoes the shape of the pitched roofs on other buildings in the area causing minimal sound reverberation which is beneficial for the use of our students with their Special Educational Needs.
Alfriston offers a wide and diverse range of professional development opportunities for staff, including the opportunity to train with Astra School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT), a local Ofsted-outstanding school-centred teacher training provider.
Alfriston School also offers staff:
• A friendly working environment
• Supportive and caring colleagues
• Excellent opportunities for professional development
• Onsite parking
• Transport links (Chiltern Line and close to the M40)
• Discount on hire of selected school facilities
• Close to local amenities
Commitment to safeguarding
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children which will be reflected throughout recruitment. The selected candidate will be required to provide suitable references and undergo an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check before taking up the post.