Key Stage 3 Teacher
Grafham Grange School, Guildford, Surrey, GU5 0LH16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
to be confirmed
Closing date
29 November 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
25 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time / 52 weeks per year.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Main Pay Scale (£33,075 - £45,307)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking a compassionate and dedicated Key Stage 3 Teacher to join our team and take responsibility for a year group class as the Class Teacher. The successful candidate will lead small-group and 1:1 sessions, working closely with pupils who may require extra emotional and academic support to reintegrate into full-time classroom learning. You will play a crucial role in helping students build self-esteem, social skills, and resilience, fostering a positive attitude towards learning.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver tailored lessons in line with the nurture curriculum, adapting teaching strategies to meet the individual needs of students
- Develop and implement personalised learning plans, with a strong focus on emotional wellbeing and academic progress
- Work closely with the pastoral team, SENCo, and external agencies to ensure a holistic approach to each pupil’s education and care
- Create a supportive, calm, and structured environment where pupils feel safe, valued, and able to express themselves
Requirements:
- Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or equivalent teaching qualification
- Experience working with students with SEMH needs, preferably within a nurture setting or similar
- Patience, empathy, and a passion for helping students overcome barriers to learning
What the school offers its staff
Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details on the role and the skills, experience and knowledge we are looking for.
Rewards & Benefits
OHC&AT is an exciting, forward-thinking organisation, and there are many benefits to embarking on your career with us. In addition to the opportunities for career progression, training and development, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes:
- Electric car lease scheme
- Enhanced parental leave schemes
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loans
- Employee referral scheme
- Membership to Discounts for Teachers – an app providing employee discounts and benefits
- Discounted gym membership subscription including digital fitness
- Comprehensive training and development
- Access to counselling advice and support via Health Assured (our employee assistance programme)
- Commitment to wellbeing supported by our occupational health service and mental-health first aiders
- Scope for career progression across eight college centres, 14 academy schools and shared services team
- As part of your contract of employment you will enrolled into a pension scheme, the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) or Teachers Pension Scheme (TPS) both of which have life cover and financial protection for your family.
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.
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About Grafham Grange School
- School type
- Academy, ages 10 to 19
- School size
- 74 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 10 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Grafham Grange School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- Mollyking@orchardhill.ac.uk
Grafham Grange School is a special school set in 42 acres of beautiful Surrey countryside in Grafham. Our school offers education and care for up to 52 students, referred from local authorities across the South of England from the age of 10 to 16 (Year 6 to Year 11).
All our students have Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) with SEMH (Social, Emotional and Mental Health) as their primary identified need, though the majority of students have additional special educational needs such as autistic spectrum conditions; speech, language and communication difficulties; ADHD; opposition defiance; medical conditions and attachment disorders.
School location
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