Lead Teacher for Specialist Resource Provision
Avanti Brook Primary School, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 2UW10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
10 July 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
26 June 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: This is a full time position.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- UPS 1-3 with potential SEN allowance of £2,539
Additional allowances
SEN allowance of £2,539
What skills and experience we're looking for
About us and the role
As a Lead teacher, you will oversee the quality and standards of teaching and learning in the Specialist Resource Provision (SRP). This role includes evaluating pupil progress, managing transitions, and supporting staff induction and development. You'll teach differentiated lessons, assess and report on pupil progress, and ensure high standards of literacy and behaviour. Additionally, you'll collaborate with colleagues, communicate effectively with the school community, and participate in professional development to enhance your teaching practices.
What will you do?
- Oversee teaching quality, planning and learning coordination in the Specialist Resource Provision.
- Manage and ensure high standards in teaching across the Specialist Resource Provision.
- Facilitate smooth pupil transitions from the Specialist Resource Provision to mainstream school.
- Induct, recruit, and develop staff
- Provision, collaborating with external partners.
- Communicate effectively with pupils, parents, colleagues, the school community, and governors.
- Ensure teaching quality, planning differentiated lessons, assessing progress, and reporting on pupil achievements.
What are we looking for?
- Experience of teaching children with speech, language, literacy, and social communication difficulties and autism
- Additional training in Speech, Language and Communication or other specific training for supporting children with Language disorders and/or Social Communication difficulties including Autism e.g., post graduate qualification
- Experience or skills in engaging with parents around communication difficulties and their impact
- Experience of teaching and differentiating teaching and learning for CYP with speech, language and literacy difficulties and social communication difficulties and training/supporting mainstream staff in this
- Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students
Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.
What the school offers its staff
Avanti Brook is a brand new primary school in Bishops Stortford North. The school will grow to become a 2 form entry primary school with a 26 place preschool. Avanti Brook Primary School will provide parents and pupils with the highest standards of education and pastoral care.
The site for Avanti Brook is a brand new building and the facilities is bespoke, contemporary and first-class, which will make for a unique learning experience.
This is a unique opportunity to work in a school that is driven by three key elements for both students and staff:
- Educational excellence
- Character formation
- Spiritual insight
Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, we'd encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.
School visits are welcomed and encouraged. Please contact the school to arrange a suitable time.
Why should you apply?
You will be working in a fantastic environment.
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.
- Great opportunities for professional development through the Avanti Institute and our family of schools
- Teacher pension scheme subject to eligibility criteria
- O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Flexible working opportunities
- Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
- Access to multiple well-being programmes (Weekend Retreats, Yoga Classes and Apps)
- Cycle-to-work and Electric Vehicle Lease Schemes
Further details about the role
Pre-employment checks
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.
Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
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 Avanti Brook Primary School
- School type
- Free School, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- Up to 446 pupils
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Avanti Brook Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- careers@avanti.org.uk
Arranging a visit to Avanti Brook Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email careers@avanti.org.uk.
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