Graduate Apprentice Teacher
Forest Moor School, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG3 2RA21 days remaining to apply
Closing date
10 October 2025 at 10am
Date listed
19 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,626.00 Annually (Actual)
Graduate Apprentice Teacher job summary
This exciting two year programme is aimed to support new graduates or individuals keen to change careers, work towards QTS and become a SEMH Primary Specialist. This is a salaried route into teaching with tuition fees paid for from the apprenticeship levy.
Salary, progression timescales and an outline of key areas of responsibility in each part of the two year programme are are as follows:
Year 1
Fixed term September-February Half Term: FTE £27,254 (Actual Salary £23,626)
You will receive training and develop your skills to understand how to support the SEMH needs of pupils at Forest Moor. This will mean you are able to work alongside a class team to meet the EHCP outcomes of individual children and develop knowledge, skills and understanding of requirements for effective support in a SEN, SEMH setting. A detailed description of this role can be found here.
Fixed term February Half Term-Summer: FTE £31,537 (Actual Salary £27,339)
If you successfully meet the criteria to move on to the next stage of the scheme, you will progress to a new role. This will focus on training you to understand the skills and knowledge required to be an effective classroom teacher in an SEMH setting. Working closely with a class teacher, you will support curriculum planning and may lead on small group teaching or academic interventions. This will prepare you for the ITT course in year 2. A detailed description of this role can be found here.
Year 2
Fixed term September-August: UQT3 £27,785
Forest Moor work closely with Exceed SCITT. If you meet the criteria set out in part 2 of the programme, you will be supported to complete an application to be a trainee primary teacher with Exceed. This is a 1 year course that will lead to the award of QTS. Forest Moor will be your 'home' school and you will complete two other placements in mainstream settings. You will receive a salary whilst completing the course, and your tuition fees will be paid for from the apprenticeship levy. If you successfully complete the 2 year programme, you will be a fully qualified primary teacher. Further information about the ITT course can be found here.
The programme is organised over 2 years to build a strong foundation of excellent relational practice to support students with SEMH needs in the first year, followed by a one year ITT programme delivered by Exceed SCITT.
In this role, you will support the learning of students with SEMH and academic learning within the classroom as part of a team of 3 staff with up to 9 students. You will develop your knowledge and skills so you will be able toe for support and lead small groups and individuals with Maths, English, reading, practical activities, supporting pupils to develop resilience, social skills and self-esteem, and deploying effective strategies for supporting pupils with a range of behavioural conditions (ASD/ADHD/SEMH/ODD). You will support the teacher in the production of classroom and specialist resources, and so a good working knowledge of ICT is essential.
If you would like to discuss or find out more about this post, please contact Alec Scott, in the first instance via email, a.scott@forestmoor.org.uk
Wellspring Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils. All posts are offered subject to enhanced DBS checks. References will be requested and an online search carried out for shortlisted candidates, prior to attendance at interview.
Further pre-employment checks, including prohibition from teaching, childcare disqualification and section 128 checks, if deemed relevant for the role, will be completed for the successful candidate upon acceptance of the post.
We are committed to equal opportunities and to promoting diversity. We want our people to reflect the diversity of our communities, and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, especially from under-represented groups, including those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.
If you are currently living overseas or have lived / worked overseas in the last five years please be aware that you will be required to provide an overseas criminal records check from the country/ countries you have resided in, if you are the preferred candidate for the post.
As you will be working with children, this post requires you to undertake regulated activity. It is an offence to seek to work in regulated activity with a group with which you are barred.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Forest Moor School
- School type
- Academy, ages 9 to 16
- School size
- 103 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 9 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Forest Moor School website
Forest Moor is an SEMH special based at Menwith Hill, just outside of Harrogate. It is a Key Stage 2 – 4 provision with around 96 students on role in beautiful surroundings and now with a lovely building that is continuing to be refurbished to suit the needs of our students.
Our aim is to provide the best possible care and education that we can for children and young people with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs. Unconditional Positive Regard is at the centre of what we do and we are creating an academy that is welcoming, caring, safe, warm and believes that all its pupils can be supported and empowered to succeed. We are creating individual and personalised pathways for our students that are built around their varied needs which will help them achieve positive outcomes and prepare them for their onward destinations into continuing education, work or training. In order to achieve this, we have developed a curriculum that provides opportunities for academic progression as well as vocational learning, whilst being engaging, creative, and innovative.
We see strong relationships as the key to our success – with students, parents, carers and the wider community and we ensure that our school is a welcoming safe place for children to learn and prosper. We believe in working closely with our families and carers and welcome their support, but also realise that at times they will need our support too. We work closely with other agencies and schools to make sure we do all we can to make learning and life the best it possibly can be.
Forest Moor and the wider Trust places a huge emphasis on professional development and invests significantly in staff training at all levels. This means that, although experience of working in an SEMH setting would be an advantage, specialist support and training will be provided for outstanding candidates wishing to make the career fulfilling move into special education.
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