Class Teacher SEN
Rosewood Free School, Southampton, Hampshire, SO16 5NA16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
25 September 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
9 September 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3
Working pattern
- Full time: School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Teachers Main Pay Scale
Additional allowances
Special Educational Needs Allowance
What skills and experience we're looking for
Duties and Responsibilities
All teachers are required to carry out the duties of a schoolteacher as set out in the current School Teachers Pay and Conditions Document. Teachers should also have due regard to the Teachers Standards (2021). Teachers’ performance will be assessed against the Teacher Standards as part of the appraisal process as relevant to their role in the school.
Main Purpose of the job:
- Be responsible for the learning and achievement of all pupils in the class, ensuring equality of opportunity for all.
- Be responsible and accountable for achieving the highest possible standards in teaching and learning.
- Treat pupils with dignity, building relationships rooted in mutual respect, and always observing proper boundaries appropriate to a teacher’s professional position.
- Work proactively and effectively in collaboration and partnership with learners, parents/carers, governors, other staff and external agencies in the best interests of pupils.
- Act within the statutory frameworks, which set out their professional duties and responsibilities and in line with the duties outlined in the current School Teachers Pay and Conditions Document (2023) and Teacher Standards (2021).
- Take responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people within the school.
Teaching
- Deliver the curriculum as relevant to the age and ability group/subject/s that you teach.
- Be responsible for the preparation and development of teaching materials, teaching programmes and pastoral arrangements as appropriate.
- Be accountable for the attainment, progress and outcomes of the learners you teach.
- Be aware of learners’ capabilities, their prior knowledge and plan teaching and differentiate appropriately to build on these, demonstrating knowledge and understanding of how children learn.
- Have a clear understanding of the learners’ varying special educational needs and be able to use and evaluate distinctive SEND teaching approaches to engage and support them.
- Use an appropriate range of observation, assessment, monitoring and recording strategies as a basis for setting challenging learning objectives for pupils of all backgrounds, abilities and dispositions, monitoring learners’ progress and levels of attainment.
- Make accurate and productive use of assessment to secure learner progress. Use relevant data to monitor progress, set learning intentions, and plan subsequent lessons.
What the school offers its staff
The School provides excellent training and development of all staff with excellent induction, support and mentoring systems. This position could suit an ECT, Post 16 or experienced teacher.The successful candidate will be employed by the Specialist Schools Trust (SST) comprising Rosewood Free School and Great Oaks School.
Closing Date: 25th September 2025
Interview Date: Week commencing 6th October
Date of Commencement: 1st January 2026 (or an earlier start date will be considered)
The Specialist Schools Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our learners and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.
Further information about the job
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
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About Rosewood Free School
- School type
- Free School, ages 2 to 19
- School size
- 70 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Rosewood Free School website
- Email address
- katharine.jordan@rosewoodfreeschool.org.uk
- Phone number
- 02380571050
Rosewood Free School is an all age special school in Southampton which caters for pupils with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD), Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD) with associated physical difficulties, complete medical needs and life limiting conditions.
Arranging a visit to Rosewood Free School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email katharine.jordan@rosewoodfreeschool.org.uk.
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