English Teacher
Alfriston School, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 2TS12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Summer Term - April 2025
Closing date
3 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
21 January 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share): Full Time; Monday to Friday.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS 1-6 £33,075 - £45,037 or UPS 1-2 £47,031 - £48,719 (depending on experience) + £2,679 SEN Allowance
Additional allowances
£2,679 SEN Allowance
What skills and experience we're looking for
Qualifications
- Qualified Teacher Status – Essential
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development – Desirable
- Willingness and desire to undertake further professional development and training – Desirable
Experience, Knowledge and Skills
- Experience of planning and teaching Primary or Secondary curriculum – Essential
- Able to demonstrate successful teaching experience with evidence of exemplary practice – Essential
- Experience working with children with Special Educational Needs – Desirable
- Understanding of how children with MLD learn and effectively apply their learning – Desirable
- Knowledge of the National Curriculum, including Programmes of Study and national strategies related to the teaching of the subject areas – Essential
- Ability to promote good progress and outcomes by students – Essential
- Ability to demonstrate good subject and curriculum knowledge – Essential
- Ability to make accurate and productive use of assessment – Essential
Personal Qualities
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Reliability and integrity
- Highly affective time management skills and an ability to meet deadlines and work under sustained pressure.
- Ability to successfully work in collaboration with colleagues
- Ability to relate to young people in a positive manner
- Willingness to constructively challenge the work of self and others to continually improve own and team performance
- To show loyalty and commitment to the school, supporting whole school initiatives and raising standards and achievement.
- Commitment to equal opportunities and a willingness to promote spiritual, social, moral and cultural development.
What the school offers its staff
Alfriston School is based in Beaconsfield. The school benefits from outstanding modern facilities, all of our classrooms are fully equipped with interactive screens and access to class sets of laptops or iPads. All teachers are provided with a laptop that is renewed every three years. The school enjoys a recently modernised performing arts and music facilities that include the use of a dance studio, sound/recording studio and performance space, along with our exceptional sports facilities that caters for a range of indoor and outdoor activities including mountain biking, trampolining, cycling, football and many others. The school also enjoys use of its spacious swimming pool designed by a bespoke architect, as part of an upgrade of the sports facilities at Alfriston, the architects developed a concertina-like roof structure that echoes the shape of the pitched roofs on other buildings in the area causing minimal sound reverberation which is beneficial for the use of our students with their Special Educational Needs.
Alfriston offers a wide and diverse range of professional development opportunities for staff, including the opportunity to train with Astra School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT), a local Ofsted-outstanding school-centred teacher training provider.
Alfriston School also offers staff:
- A friendly working environment
- Supportive and caring colleagues
- Excellent opportunities for professional development
- Onsite parking
- Transport links (Chiltern Line and close to the M40)
- Discount on hire of selected school facilities
- Close to local amenities
Commitment to safeguarding
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children which will be reflected throughout recruitment. The selected candidate will be required to provide suitable references and undergo an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check before taking up the post.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruit@alfristonschool.com
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Alfriston School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- School size
- 159 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Alfriston School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- ellie.davison@alfristonschool.com
- Phone number
- 01494 673740
Alfriston is an outstanding Special School with Academy status for girls aged 11-19 with moderate learning difficulties and speech and language and communication difficulties. We currently have 164 girls on roll. All the pupils have an Education Health Care Plan and are taught in small groups and with additional support. Our staff are specialist subject teachers and are experienced in working with a range of special needs and abilities.
Pupils attend Alfriston from all over Buckinghamshire and some neighbouring counties. We also have weekly boarding provision for 20 pupils.
We consider the staff team as our most valuable resource. Training and development is a high priority in the school. There is also personal support given to staff to manage the diverse and challenging work needed to support pupils with significant special needs. At present there are 70 staff employed at the school working in the teaching, support, residential and administrative teams. We are proud of the excellent standard of education provided at Alfriston.
WHY WORK FOR ALFRISTON SCHOOL?
Alfriston School is based in Beaconsfield. The school benefits from outstanding modern facilities, all of our classrooms are fully equipped with interactive screens and access to class sets of laptops or iPads. All teachers are provided with a laptop that is renewed every three years. The school enjoys a recently modernised performing arts and music facilities that include the use of a dance studio, sound/recording studio and performance space, along with our exceptional sports facilities that caters for a range of indoor and outdoor activities including mountain biking, trampolining, cycling, football and many others. The school also enjoys use of its spacious swimming pool designed by a bespoke architect, as part of an upgrade of the sports facilities at Alfriston, the architects developed a concertina-like roof structure that echoes the shape of the pitched roofs on other buildings in the area causing minimal sound reverberation which is beneficial for the use of our students with their Special Educational Needs.
Alfriston offers a wide and diverse range of professional development opportunities for staff, including the opportunity to train with Astra School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT), a local Ofsted-outstanding school-centred teacher training provider.
Alfriston School also offers staff:
• A friendly working environment
• Supportive and caring colleagues
• Excellent opportunities for professional development
• Onsite parking
• Transport links (Chiltern Line and close to the M40)
• Discount on hire of selected school facilities
• Close to local amenities
Arranging a visit to Alfriston School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email ellie.davison@alfristonschool.com.
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