SEN Teacher - #138651

SEN Teacher - Aurora Ivy Lane School

Essential Criteria PGCE, Qualified Teacher Status or equivalent teaching qualification and evidence of in-service training.

Location Wakefield

Contract Type Full-time

Hours 40 hours per week

Salary £31,650 - £49,084 per annum (M1 - UPS3)

Aurora Ivy Lane School

We’re a specialist school providing education for young people aged 11 to 19 with complex care needs including behaviours that challenge and learning disabilities, often in association with autism spectrum conditions. We work hard to ensure students have a holistic and supportive environment, enabling them to flourish and develop in all aspects of life.

Based in Wakefield; we are currently looking to recruit an experienced SEN Teacher.

The Role

As our Class Teacher, your role will be to provide high quality teaching that will enable pupils to make progress not just academically but socially and emotionally.

Class sizes are small (up to 8 students), highly supported by some great Teaching Assistants (typically 11) and complimented by a superb therapy team.

The role will give you the opportunity to showcase your creativity as you’ll support the planning and delivery of a very broad and balanced curriculum to enable our pupils to achieve their full potential in all areas.

To facilitate this, you’ll plan and deliver lessons across a number of subjects that support young people achieving accreditation, building self-esteem and confidence

You’ll supervise and provide support and guidance to our support staff and play a key role in their Professional Development Reviews.

Naturally, you will take responsibility for implementing school policies and practices, including those relating to safeguarding and equality of opportunity. Additionally, you will also be expected to carefully monitor the health, well-being and personal care of our pupils; informing Pastoral/Clinical/ SEND support teams and any other relevant professionals of any concerns.

Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required. Please see the link below for our full job description

SEN Teacher - Job Description

Informal visits to the school are encouraged by prospective candidates and can be arranged through contacting [email protected] .

Closing date for applications is Monday 12th May at 1700, with a view to interview on Tuesday 20th May.

Skills & Qualifications

Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate

• Qualified Teacher status
• Experience in achieving outstanding outcomes
• Thorough working knowledge of the curriculum and how to adapt this for pupils with SEN
• Experience of working with young people with ASD
• Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedures
• Ability to create and maintain strong nurturing relationships with young people
• Experience of managing a range of approaches to learning, to include the students with anxiety.
• Knowledge of strategies and visual teaching methods to engage reluctant learners.
• A flexible approach, a high level of creativity and the ability to adapt teaching to meet individual needs
  
  
  

Benefits & Additional Information

What's on offer?

• Training and Development
  
  
  

Within Aurora, we strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people we support. We offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all our employees to improve your skills and further your career.

• Save money on your bills!!
  
  
  

With the cost of living rising we have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further. Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are. You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more. You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme.

• Competitive Pay and Reward
  
  
  

Every year we compare the market rates of pay and rewards to insure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations. We also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Competitive Pension and Life Assurance.

• UK Health Cash Plan
  
  
  

This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills. You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.

• Employee Assistance Programme
  
  
  

Your health and wellbeing is very important to us and we have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7.

• Refer a friend for £1,000
  
  
  

As an employee; we’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)

How to apply?

To apply please complete our online application form. For more information on this position please contact Carl in the Recruitment Team at [email protected]

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.