Class Teacher
Ladywood School, Bolton, Lancashire, BL3 1NG13 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2025
Closing date
9 October 2024 at 9am
Date listed
17 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- T3 -T9
Additional allowances
SEN 2 Allowance
What skills and experience we're looking for
Trustees are looking to appoint a highly motivated and outstanding SEND Teacher to join our friendly school team. If you are enthusiastic, share our values and have a commitment to the highest quality provision for pupils with SEN then Ladywood is the place for you!
What the school offers its staff
Every day is different and a place to challenge yourself
Our children are amazing and will inspire you
Be a member of a forward thinking Trust that is an ambassador for SEN
Happy and friendly
We are outstanding
Dynamic, inclusive, supportive team where everyone has a voice
Make a real difference to children’s lives
Encourages self-belief at all times
We go above and beyond
Empowering, progressive and inventive place to be
High expectations of all
Valued
Positive shared ethos
Room to grow and develop
Colourful, creative, stimulating and inviting environment
We create opportunities for development
Enthusiastic staff and fabulous team spirit
Making a difference
We love learning and this is the place to do it
From the moment you start you will be fully supported and become part of the team
We believe and achieve!
Further details about the role
PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Relationships with pupils
1. High expectations of all pupils
2. A commitment to pupils achieving their full potential
3. Establish a fair, respectful, trusting and supportive relationship with pupils
4. Hold positive values and attitudes to school
5. Demonstrate ability to inspire pupils
6. Adopt high standards of behaviour in their professional role
Frameworks
1. Maintain an up to date knowledge of teachers' professional duties and the statutory frameworks within which they work
2. Contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of the policies and practice of their work place
3. Demonstrate interest in educational issues
Communicating and working with others
1. Communicate effectively with pupils ,colleagues both in school and from other agencies
2. Communicate effectively with parents and carers, conveying relevant information about achievements, progress and well-being
3. Encourage parents to participate in annual review meetings, parents evenings and other discussions about their child's progress, development and well-being
4. A commitment to collaboration and co-operative working with professionals from other agencies
5. Ability to communicate effectively with peers
Personal professional development
1. Evaluate their performance and be committed to improving professional practice through appropriate professional development
2. Have a creative and positive approach towards innovation, being prepared to adopt new practice where benefits and improvements are identified
3. Act upon advice and feedback and be open to coaching and mentoring
4. Demonstrate an acceptance that educational change is now the norm
5. Be aware that teachers and all other staff who work in schools need to continually learn and develop.
6. Positively support the work of Ladywood as a National Teaching School and be willing to share practice with a range of colleagues
Teaching , Learning and Assessment
1. Have a good, up to date working knowledge and understanding of a range of teaching, learning and behaviour management strategies for children with special educational needs
2. Know how to use and adopt the strategies, including how to provide opportunities for all learners to achieve their individual potential
3. Teach challenging, well organised lessons across the age and our very diverse ability range using:
- A deep knowledge of the children’s individual needs
- An appropriate range of teaching strategies and resources, including ICT
- Adapt language and communication strategies to suit learners
- Manage the learning of individuals modifying their teaching appropriately to suit the needs of the children
4. Know and implement all the school's assessment procedures
5. Monitor the progress of those they teach and use monitoring information to help raise levels of achievement of the children they teach
6. Make effective use of an appropriate range of observation, assessment, monitoring and recording strategies as a basis for setting challenging individual targets and monitoring progress
7. Work in partnership with other agencies e.g. Speech and Language therapists to ensure pupils individual needs are met
8. Provide reports on children’s progress and achievement for annual reviews and other reporting requirements
Subject and curriculum
1. Have a secure knowledge and understanding of their subjects and related pedagogy and how each subject contributes to cross curricular learning
2. Know and understand the relevant statutory and non-statutory curricular frameworks and other relevant initiatives
3. Use skills in literacy, numeracy and ICT to support their teaching and wider professional activities
Achievement and diversity
1. Take practical account of diversity and promote equality and inclusion in their teaching
2. Refer to sources of information, advice and support from external agencies when planning provision for pupils with EAL
Safeguarding and well-being
1. Know and implement local and national policies and guidance on the safeguarding and promotion of the well-being of children
2. Know how to identify potential child abuse and follow safeguarding procedures
Learning environment
1. Establish a purposeful, safe, orderly and stimulating learning environment which complies with legal requirements, national policies and school policies
2. Identify and use opportunities to personalise and extend learning through out-of-school contexts where possible, making links between in school learning in out-of-school contexts
3. Manage pupils' behaviour constructively in line with the school's Behaviour Management Policy
4. Use a range of behaviour management techniques and strategies, adapting them as necessary to meet individual needs
Team working and collaboration
1. Work as a team member, sharing the development of effective practice
2. Adopt a positive and optimistic attitude to school issues
3. Help to encourage a positive school spirit and a ‘can do’ attitude
4. Be an ambassador for and support Ladywood School in all activities
Customer Care - To provide quality services that are what our customers want and need. To give customers the opportunity to comment or complain if they need to. To work with customers and do what needs to be done to meet their needs. To inform your manager about what customers say in relation to the services delivered.
Develop oneself and others - To make every effort to access development opportunities and ensure you spend time with your manager identifying your development needs through your personal development plan. To be ready to share learning with others
Valuing Diversity - To accept everyone has a right to their distinct identity. To treat everyone with dignity and respect and to ensure that what all our customers tell us is valued by reporting it back into the organisation. To be responsible for promoting and participating in the achievement of the departmental valuing diversity action plan.
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.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to HR@ladywood.bolton.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Ladywood School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- School size
- 197 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Ladywood School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- HR@ladywood.bolton.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01204 333400
Ladywood School is a primary special school for pupils with complex learning difficulties. There are currently 207 pupils on roll.
Ladywood has been judged as an outstanding school by OFSTED on 4 consecutive occasions, most recently in January 2023.
‘Leaders and staff at Ladywood School value every pupil for their uniqueness. The school’s inspiring and creative community, where staff make learning fun, allows pupils to thrive. ’ (OFSTED 2023)
Ladywood is a proud member of Woodbridge Trust, which is a local partnership with Firwood School, Ladywood Outreach and Woodbridge College. We were awarded Bolton News ‘Primary School of the Year 2018’ and the Nasen award for ‘Co-production with Children and Young people and their Families’ in 2019.
Arranging a visit to Ladywood School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email HR@ladywood.bolton.sch.uk.
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