Educate U is a specialist school providing high quality education for children and young people aged 5 -16 with a wide range of complex needs.
These needs include children diagnosed with ASC, ADHD or who have high anxiety and attachment and trauma barriers to learning. All our students have an EHCP and most have SEMH needs.
Emotional well-being and high-calibre learning are our two main priorities and are central to our vision, our purpose and our actions. Nurture and connection are the building blocks to ensuring our children feel safe, have reduced school-based anxiety and are in a safe space to learn and to build resilience. We are a no-consequence school and believe in connection before correction.
Teaching Duties
We are seeking an innovative, experienced and nurturing KS3/KS4 teacher for September 2023 for a small class of children with complex needs. As a SEND teacher you will have experience of teaching children with a variety of neurodiverse needs including ASC and Tourette's Syndrome.
Teaching and Learning Responsibilities:
1. Plan and teach inspirational, specialist and highly differentiated lessons to KS3 and KS4 SEND classes.
2. Make accurate and productive use of assessment, to promote good pupil (academic) progress and emotional development.
3. Provide a stimulating and well-structured learning environment suitable for pupils with special educational needs.
4. Provide a nurturing environment. Keep up-to-date with PACE training and employ this within the classroom.
5. Develop a bespoke, topic-based curriculum, which both meets the academic, special and personal development/social needs of pupils in KS3, provides support with numeracy and literacy and delivers a range of subjects, including Maths, Literacy, PSHE and enrichment.
6. Play a full and active role in the development of the school including department and whole school development/improvement, aware of and implementing national developments in best practice.
7. Engage proactively with the school’s performance development and review and supervision processes.
8. Participate in, and take responsibility for, your continuing personal professional development.
9. Line management responsibilities for Teaching Assistants in the classroom.
10. Support the school through developing consistent approach to behaviour management, teaching and learning, marking, assessment etc. following relevant school policies.
11. Check pupils' attendance and punctuality at each lesson, reporting absences and lateness promptly.
12. Promote pupil progress through the effective deployment and coordination of support staff including HLTAs, TAs and specialists from external agencies.
13. Support the SENCo in the production and review of EHC Plans, and for pupils.
14. Create and maintain a carefully considered physical environment within the SEN areas and classrooms, including displays of student work; group or independent learning areas; specialist 1:1 spaces.
15. Be responsible for the use of a delegated budget to provide learning resources and other equipment necessary for the effective operation of the SEND teaching team.
16. Build effective relationships with parents and carers, sharing information regarding pupils’ achievement, behaviour and well-being.
17. Support pupils and their parents and carers to make the most of the educational and other relevant opportunities available to them.
18. Liaise effectively with and signpost to other agencies when necessary, for example, social care, NHS, CAMHS, EPs etc.
19. Contribute to the accurate and appropriate use and maintenance of up-to-date recording systems including those related to attendance, behaviour, progress and learning, etc.
20. Demonstrate a critical understanding of strategies, processes and developments within SEND and reflect this understanding in daily practice.
21. As part of your wider duties and responsibilities you are required to promote and actively support the school’s responsibilities towards safeguarding. You are expected to attend training prior to being in the classroom and to be resolute in recording any and all safeguarding concerns to the DSL/DDSL via our monitoring and recording system My Concern.
22. Subject lead up to two subjects across the whole school. Be responsible for sequentially planning your subject(s) across KS1-3 (or KS4 depending on subject).
This list is not a comprehensive list and you may be asked to participate in other tasks integral to the role of meeting the needs of our children.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From £39,000.00 per year
Additional pay:
* Performance bonus
Benefits:
* Company events
* Company pension
* Discounted or free food
* Health & wellbeing programme
* Sick pay
Schedule:
* Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
* Worthing: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 31/01/2025
Reference ID: KS3 SEN Teacher
Expected start date: 24/02/2025
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