Job Description
Job Title: English Teacher
Location: Darwen, Lancashire
Salary: M1 £31,650 UPS3 £49,084
Hours: 40 hours per week, Term time only Monday to Friday - Fixed Term Contract until July 2025 with possibility of permanent role.
We are currently seeking a passionate English Teacher to join a small specialist school providing personalised, tailored academic and therapeutic support in a calm, nurturing environment based in Darwen, Lancashire.
The role:
As our Class English Teacher, your role will be to provide high quality, challenging and differentiated educational activities and experiences through the teaching of a broad and balanced curriculum to enable our pupils to achieve their full potential in all areas of learning.
Key duties:
1. Deliver the curriculum as prescribed by our schemes of work.
2. Effectively plan lessons that are stimulating, relevant and well-structured to a wide range of abilities and communication needs to ensure all students are able to participate and reach their full potential.
3. Work with the Head Teacher and other members of the leadership team to ensure the successful delivery of the vision, ethos, aims and objectives of the School.
4. Deliver the ethos of the school and the educational vision and direction which enables effective teaching and support, successful learning and achievement by students and sustained improvement in their spiritual, moral, social, cultural, mental and physical well-being in preparation for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.
5. Deliver effective teaching and learning and monitor and evaluate the quality of teaching support and standards of students' achievement, using benchmarks and setting targets for improvement.
6. Monitor, evaluate and review practice in the classroom and implement strategies to ensure that under-performance is challenged and appropriate changes to practice are implemented.
7. Participate in the recruitment and retention of the best employees and ensure an effective induction for all new starters.
8. Work in partnership with all school staff, parents, carers and other agencies in providing for the academic, spiritual, moral, social, emotional and cultural well-being of students and their families.
Experience / Qualifications:
1. Qualified Teacher status.
2. Desirable but not essential, knowledge and experience of the KS3 and 4 curriculum and examinations.
3. Thorough working knowledge of the curriculum and how to adapt this for pupils with SEN.
4. Desirable, experience of working with young people with ASD and SEMH.
5. Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedure.
6. Ability to create and maintain nurturing relationships with young people.
7. Experience of managing a range of approaches to learning, to include the students with anxiety.
8. Knowledge of strategies and visual teaching methods to engage reluctant learners.
9. A flexible approach and a high level of creativity.
Benefits:
1. Full training and continued support.
2. Life assurance and pension.
3. Health cash back plan.
4. Car lease scheme.
5. Bike to work scheme.
6. Perk box.
7. Free parking.
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