Enhanced Pathway Teacher
Didcot Girls' School, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 7AJ7 days remaining to apply
Closing date
19 May 2025 at 8am
Date listed
7 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Special Education Needs (SEN)
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS
Enhanced Pathway Teacher job summary
Enhanced Pathway Teacher
Reporting to: SENDCo
Location: Didcot Girls’ School
Salary/allowances: MPS scale point.
Job type: Permanent, full time or part time considered (please indicate in your application).
Start date: 1st September 2025
The Post
Are you someone with a genuine and infectious passion for inclusion? We are keen to appoint a Primary School teacher looking for their next challenge and willing to join an experienced and committed Secondary inclusion team. Alternatively, you might be a Secondary School teacher with extensive experience teaching and motivating students with different or additional needs at Key Stage 3. We are looking for someone who can enthuse and engage the students they teach, and someone with high expectations for all students whatever their prior attainment.
We are delighted to have been awarded funding to run an Enhanced Pathway at Didcot Girls’ School, which will be designed to support students with additional needs to catch up with their peers. The Enhanced Pathway groups will run alongside the school curriculum and focus on supporting students to make rapid progress in literacy and numeracy during years 7 and 8. You will have a dedicated teaching space and will work alongside others in the inclusion team to create a welcoming and inclusive environment in which students can flourish and develop. This is an exciting new role, with an opportunity to shape and develop the provision to be the best it can be.
We welcome applications from experienced teachers as well as those new to the profession and currently in training.
Didcot Girls’ School is an accredited teaching school with a significant track record for successful fast-track career progression, leadership development and excellent CPD. The school is also part of Ridgeway Education Trust, a growing multi-academy trust, which provides the opportunity for school improvement and leadership work across schools in the future.
For further information about the department, please email Martha Hawes, Deputy Headteacher (Inclusion) on mhawes@didcotgirls.oxon.sch.uk
Inclusion at DGS
Inclusion is one of the core values of Didcot Girls’ School and is at the heart of our Teaching and Learning Principles and wider school priorities. We focus on training all staff to be teachers of students with SEND through adaptive teaching and specialist adjustments in class. We are a restless school, always seeking to improve our practice and following well researched and established pedagogical principles.
The inclusion team at DGS is an experienced and well-motivated group of colleagues, operating within classrooms and in our Learning Support and Flexible Provision spaces. We achieve excellent outcomes for all students, while recognising that there is always more we can do to improve our understanding and practice. You would be joining a strong wider pastoral team who are committed to supporting our students to become outstanding leaders of themselves and others.
The School
Didcot Girls’ School is a dynamic school. In November 2022, the school was judged as continuing to be Outstanding. As Ofsted recognised, we invest in all of our staff:
“Leaders support staff very well. They have established a collaborative and respectful working environment. With the trust, they provide highly valued training and leadership programmes. Staff are exceptionally proud to work at the school.”
Ofsted also noted the high standards within the school and commented that “Pupils’ behaviour is exemplary.”
We are a values-driven school, committed to high quality teaching and learning and respectful relationships within an inclusive learning community. Developing stimulating and student-centred teaching and learning is at the centre of our school development work. We work hard to ensure that all girls’ education enables our students to develop confidence, leadership skills and high levels of aspiration.
We are committed to continuous professional development and have wide-ranging training and development opportunities. We are also mindful of the competing demands people face in their lives and make every effort to accommodate flexible working.
Summer 2024 GCSE results were superb with 81% of all students achieving 4+ in English and Maths, and 66% doing the same at 5+. Results at A level in the mixed sixth form shared with our partner school, St Birinus School, are also extremely strong with 30% of grades awarded as A* or A and 62% achieving Grades A*-B. These results place us as one of the highest performing schools in the county.
Employing great staff is key to the success of our school: the Headteacher is actively involved in every interview process.
We understand that valuing and developing our staff is the best way to release and realise their potential. In return, we seek staff who are passionate about working with young people, resilient, and with a truly growth mindset. If this is you, we look forward to hearing from you!
Didcot Girls’ School is a Family Friendly School, committed to supporting our staff so that they can carve out a professional and personal life that is fulfilling and balanced.
RET – Ridgeway Education Trust
As a member of Ridgeway Education Trust, Didcot Girls’ School (Ofsted Outstanding November 2022) works in close partnership with St Birinus School (Ofsted Good, February 2020). The two schools share a 400 strong mixed Didcot Sixth Form (Ofsted Outstanding, November 2022) which is based predominantly at St Birinus.
Application process:
The school reserves the right to interview on receipt of applications and to appoint prior to the published deadline, so early application is recommended.Ridgeway Education Trust is committed to safeguarding, equality and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff working in all its schools to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to satisfactory enhanced DBS, references and pre-employment safeguarding checks. All Leadership roles will require a Section 128 check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining a post. All cases are considered confidentially and according to the nature of the role and information disclosed.
To view our Safeguarding policy, please visit our website: https://www.didcotgirls.oxon.sch.uk/265/school-policies
Please be aware that you will be required to bring your original degree certificate, proof of residence and photographic ID, as applicable, to interview and online searches may be made for shortlisted candidates, as part of due diligence checks.
Didcot Girls’ School is a Family Friendly School, committed to supporting our staff so that they can carve out a professional and personal life that is fulfilling and balanced.
Our RET Staff Charter summarises the commitment we make to all staff who join and work at Ridgeway Education Trust.
We are committed to expressing our values of high-quality learning, respectful relationships and an inclusive environment in the day-to-day experience of staff and students throughout the school.
Didot Girls’ School is an equal opportunities employer.
Commitment to safeguarding
Didcot Girls School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff working in all its schools to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check along with standard pre-employment safeguarding checks.
Please be aware that you will be required to bring your original qualification certificate(s), proof of residence and photographic ID to interview.
Didcot Girls School is an equal opportunities employer.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Didcot Girls' School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1616 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Didcot Girls' School website
Didcot Girls’ School is a dynamic school. In November 2022, the school was again judged to be Outstanding. As Ofsted recognised, we invest in all of our staff:
“Leaders support staff very well. They have established a collaborative and respectful working environment. With the trust, they provide highly valued training and leadership programmes. Staff are exceptionally proud to work at the school.”
Ofsted also noted the high standards within the school and commented that “Pupils’ behaviour is exemplary”
We are a values-driven school, committed to high quality teaching and learning and respectful relationships within an inclusive learning community. Developing stimulating and student-centred teaching and learning is at the centre of our school development work. We work hard to ensure that all girls’ education enables our students to develop confidence, leadership skills and high levels of aspiration.
We are committed to continuous professional development and have wide-ranging training and development opportunities. We are also mindful of the competing demands people face in their lives and make every effort to accommodate flexible working.
Summer 2022 GCSE results were superb with 88% of all students achieving 4+ in English and Maths, and 72% doing the same at 5+. Results at A level in the mixed sixth form shared with our partner school, St Birinus School, are also extremely strong with 44% of grades awarded as A* or A and 68% achieving Grades A*-B. These results place us as one of the highest performing schools in the county.
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