SEND Teacher

Due to the continued growth and success for Abbey School, we are looking for dedicated and enthusiastic teachers to join our team. From Early Years Foundation Stage to Key Stage 3, we have opportunities for educators eager to support the next generation.

Opportunities available: EYFS all the way through to KS3

Start dates available: February, Easter, May, September

Duties will include, but not limited to:

• Planning, preparing and delivering learning activities to enable children and young people to enjoy learning, make progress and experience a sense of wellbeing.
• Creating a positive learning environment, reflective of the school’s culture and ethos as set out in its curriculum purpose statement.
• Leading a class team to provide outstanding teaching and learning for all children and young people.
• Assessing, recording and reporting progress for children and young people within the class.
• Preparing for and contributing to Person Centred Reviews.
• Working in partnership with parents, colleagues and other professionals to achieve the best possible outcomes for children and young people.

You will be joining a friendly, enthusiastic and well qualified staff team and will find this post challenging, stimulating and rewarding. An excellent comprehensive in-service training and an induction programme will be provided by the school.

We are seeking Teachers who are:

• Committed to supporting students with special educational needs.
• Skilled at motivating and inspiring learners across a range of abilities.
• Dedicated to supporting the unique needs of every pupil, ensuring individualised support.
• Effective communicators with outstanding interpersonal abilities.
• A collaborative team member who can also excel independently.

Abbey School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of all pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Child safer recruitment procedures operate. This role involves regulated activity with children and adults and so an Enhanced DBS with Children and Adult Barred List Checks is required.

If you believe you have the right qualities to join our vibrant, innovative, and exceptional school a SEND Teacher, we invite you to complete a school application form, available to download from our website https://abbeyschool.com/job/send-classroom-teacher/

The School will complete an online search for all shortlisted candidates. If any incidents or issues have happened that are publicly available online, the school may wish to explore this at interview.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are ‘spent’ unless ‘protected’ under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their age, disability, gender reassignment, race, sex, pregnancy and maternity, marriage/civil partnerships, religion/belief, or sexual orientation.