KS3 SEND Teacher
Merchants' Academy, Bristol, BS13 9AJThis job expired on 1 July 2021
Job start date
1 September 2021
Closing date
1 July 2021 at 9am
Date listed
17 June 2021
Job details
Job role
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Working pattern
- Full time, part time
Contract type
- Fixed term - 1 Year starting September 2021
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS/UPS (£25,714 - £41,604) per annum + Health Cash Plan and Benefits package
KS3 SEND Teacher job summary
Applications are invited from high quality teachers to join the enthusiastic and dedicated SEND Department at Merchants’ Academy.
· inspiring and able to motivate and challenge students to make rapid progress.
In return we can offer you:
· A fantastic community of children, parents and carers who deserve the best.
· To join a wonderful team and have every opportunity to further your professional development and career with an excellent benefit package including; Wellbeing Health Cash Plan, Retail Discounts, ICT Loans, Professional Introduction Incentive plus others.
Closing Date: Thursday 1st July 2021 at 9:00. Interviews: Tuesday 6th July 2021
Commitment to safeguarding
Venturers Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to demonstrate this commitment in every aspect of their work. The aims of our Safer Recruitment procedures are to help deter, reject or identify people who might abuse children or are otherwise unsuited to working with them. An enhanced DBS check is required for all staff.
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About Merchants' Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 18
- Education phase
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- School size
- 1303 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Merchants' Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@venturerstrust.org
Our department is made up of a number of Learning Support Assistants (LSA) who support students both across the curriculum and through targeted interventions and personalised curriculum plans. Our LSAs work closely with our students working collaboratively with classroom teachers to ensure that they receive the correct scaffolding in lessons as we believe that all students should aim high. We also provide a space for students with additional needs where they are able to work or receive support directly from LSAs at any point in the day. This space is open all day including break and lunch times and is seen as a nurturing and reflective space by students.
In addition, LSAs plan and deliver interventions for literacy and speech language and communication needs and work collaboratively with our Speech and Language Therapist (SALT) and the English department. This ensures that these interventions are delivered, monitored and reviewed as part of the graduated response to need in addition to maintaining high standards of teaching and learning. As part of our provision at Merchants’ Academy we also have a Speech and Language Therapist who works across the school providing teachers with direct strategies and targets to embed speech language and communication into all lessons, as well as carrying out assessments when needed for students as part of our identification process. Our SALT also runs interventions to help students refine their communication skills and supports them to transfer these skills into a range of different contexts.
Merchants’ Academy values the importance of collaborative work both internally and with external agencies, working with a high number of professionals to plan and deliver provision for students with a wide range of additional needs. As part of Venturers Trust our Trust schools SENCo’s meet regularly to plan whole Trust SEND provision, share resources and look to strengthen and expand the provision that we provide for our students across the City of Bristol.
Currently Merchants’ Academy has 14% of students identified as SEND, requiring something additional and different to their peers. It is the Academy’s aim to strengthen provision around early identification and resources for teachers across the 4 categories of needs as outlined in the SEND Code of Practise; Cognition and Learning; Communication and Interaction; Social, Emotional and Mental Health Needs and Physical and Sensory needs.
The KS3 SEND teacher will work with students in year 7/8 delivering small group provision for core subjects to students with EHCP’s transition from primary to secondary school. They will ensure individual needs are addressed to enable students to make excellent progress in terms of academic progress, personal development, emotional self-regulation and social skills. They will ensure the best possible learning outcomes are achieved by the cohort of students. They will encourage students to be become lifelong learners who choose their own future.
At Merchants’ Academy we understand the importance of providing an inclusive curriculum for all learners especially those identified as SEND.
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