What skills and experience we're looking for
Experience
Essential
• Proven, recent, successful classroom practice that motivates, challenges and develops learners with SEND and includes excellent knowledge of how to build and sustain a learning community.
• Working productively with learners, families and the wider community.
• Proven experience in leading and delivering personalised curriculum provision for SEND learners.
• Proven, recent, successful delivery and coordination of qualification pathways for SEND learners including Entry Level to GCSE Maths, English, ASDAN CoPE or others.
• Using successful systems to monitor and evaluate student performance; ensuring excellent outcomes for all.
• Experience of working within Primary and/or Secondary setting.
Desirable
• Building and sustaining successful partnerships with external agencies.
• Understanding of the relationship between CPD and sustained school improvement.
• Working cooperatively with other schools in partnership.
Skills
Essential
• Lead, inspire, challenge and empower teams/individuals to perform outstandingly.
• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity and an ability to model the values and vision of the school.
• Excellent communication skills with a range of audiences.
• Think strategically, build and communicate a coherent vision in a range of compelling ways.
• Emotional resilience in working through challenges.
• Ability to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children.
• Demonstrate personal enthusiasm for and commitment to the learning process including a capacity for sustained hard work with energy and enthusiasm.
• Give and receive effective feedback and act to improve personal performance.
Desirable
• Excellent skills of collaboration and networking for the benefit of pupils.
Personal Attributes
• Passionate about education and educational issues.
• Constant drive for improvement.
• Ability and energy to inspire the best in others.
• Exceptional personal integrity and character.
• Evidence of commitment to continuous professional development.
What the school offers its staff
Teachers' Pension,
Sodexo Benefits,
Care First EAP,
Free Refreshments,
On-site Parking
Commitment to safeguarding
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, therefore all applicants must be prepared to undergo a number of checks to confirm their suitability to work with children and young people. The Trust welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. In accordance with the Department of Education’s “Keeping Children Safe in Education”, references will be sought on all short-listed candidates before interview.