What skills and experience we're looking for
Thames Park Secondary School is committed to providing a nurturing and inclusive environment where every student can thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. We are looking for a dedicated and passionate Nurture Teacher to join our team and help support the unique needs of our nurture students.
As a Nurture Teacher, you will be responsible for planning, developing, and delivering high-quality lessons that address the social, emotional, and academic needs of students in the nurture group. You will play a vital role in building self-esteem, emotional regulation, and social skills development.
Key Responsibilities:
• Plan and deliver nurturing lessons tailored to the needs of students with social, emotional, and behavioural difficulties (SEBD).
• Liaise with other subject leads to ensure the needs of all students are met.
• Track student progress, set and monitor targets, and take appropriate action based on student outcomes.
• Coordinate extra-curricular clubs and activities relevant to nurture students, such as social skills groups and emotional regulation workshops.
The ideal candidate will have:
• Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). Unqualified candidates with strong work experience within a school will be considered.
• Proven experience working with students with SEBD.
• An understanding of and interest in the principles of Nurture.
• Ability to lead and develop the Nurture curriculum.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
What the school offers its staff
We are a school which is firmly rooted in serving our community. We are proud to be an inclusive co-educational school where we recognise that success for young people is built on firm foundations of trust, respect, care and hard work. We measure our success by much more than exam results as we recognise that such data tells only a part of the story of each of our young people. Thames Park is already a great place to teach and learn and we have many strengths including:
• Motivated and polite pupils, who have a strong voice in the school with diversity champions and student parliament
• Staff are aided by extensive and wide-ranging in-house support and coaching, by dedicated and helpful colleagues
• Part of a knowledgeable and dynamic Trust with supportive governors, Trustee’s and Central Staff with a robust understanding of education
In return for your hard work you will receive:
• Relocation package (where applicable) of up to £8,000 for new employees renting or buying a property
• Support from highly experienced SLT members, and the wider trust network and collaboration with our other schools
• Support network for all staff including managing workloads and work-life balance
• Career progression throughout the Trust, with the ability to progress in other schools
• Recognition of continuous service
• Excellent CPD opportunities through the school and the trust
• Fully Subsided Employee Assistance Programme
• Excellent behaviour management policy to support all staff
• National Conditions of Service
• Automatic enrolment into the National Teachers Pension Scheme
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.