Lead Teacher for the Specialist Resource Base

North Walsham High School, North Walsham, Norfolk, NR28 9HZ

31 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Easter 2025

• Closing date

  19 January 2026 at 10am

• Date listed

  16 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £54,466.00 - £59,830.00 Annually (Actual) L1-5 + SEND Allowance

Lead Teacher for the Specialist Resource Base job summary

“We put the success and happiness of our students at the heart of everything we do”.

North Walsham High School, part of the Enrich Learning Trust, is a small secondary school in Norfolk. We are a rapidly growing school that has a strong community of dedicated staff who live out our vision and put the success and happiness of our students at the heart of everything we do. This is underpinned by our core values of Trust, Resilience, Excellence and Kindness.

We are really proud to be opening a brand new Specialist Resource Base (SRB). Our SRB will form part of a county wide programme of SRB provision as part of Norfolk’s Local Offer to children, young people with special educational needs and their families. Our SRB will cater for students with a diagnosis of ASD and for students who do not have a formal diagnosis but have barriers to learners associated with the triad of communication, socialisation and flexibility of thinking. The vision is to support these students to access mainstream education.

We are seeking to appoint an inspirational and passionate Lead Teacher for the Specialist Resource Base. This is a really exciting opportunity to help open and lead the base and work alongside the Primary School SRB situated at Millfield Primary School.

The successful candidate will:

• Lead the delivery of the school’s Specialist Resource Base (SRB)
• Lead the strategic development of practice, performance, and quality within the SRB
• Be passionate about inclusive education in line with the school's values and vision for SEND
• Manage a staff team of teaching and support staff within the SRB, providing inspirational leadership which enables individuals to operate at their best and continually improve.
• Provide leadership and guidance to teams, colleagues and partners ensuring a culture which promotes true partnership with parents, carers, and families.
• Maintain the highest standards of teaching, learning, specialist support and safeguarding for the pupils within the SRB, enabling pupils to make accelerated progress and to meet their special educational needs.
• Lead work on observations and panels supporting the LA admission process
• Undertake the role of Designated Safeguarding Lead for the SRB and have clear understanding of safeguarding procedures and practices.
• Make suitable plans for a child’s needs by interpreting both how they present as well as specific assessments and knowledge of their specific needs.
• Encourage children to develop in all aspects of their learning, including both socially and emotionally, promoting the school’s vision and values

Professional development opportunities are plentiful and we are always working hard to be innovative around workload- we want you to have a balanced life and enjoy working with our children! We have really strong supportive policies on feedback, reporting, centralised planning and behaviour for learning (including centralised detentions) that allow you to focus on planning and teaching excellent lessons.

Alongside this we have a clear approach to teaching and learning which is supported by our Instructional Coaching programme. This is captured in the North Walsham Approach to Teaching.

For an informal discussion contact our Executive Headteacher Mr James Gosden (gosdenj@nwhs.uk). We encourage visits to the school prior to application.

Enrich Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all those working at the Trust to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Safeguarding our students is of paramount importance to all staff at North Walsham High School.

We have robust procedures and systems in place to identify any concerns we have about our students and we act swiftly and proactively when dealing with these concerns.

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.

About North Walsham High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 619 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: North Walsham High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/north-walsham-high-school-north-walsham

We put the success and happiness of our students at the heart of everything we do.

North Walsham High School is a rapidly growing school that has a strong community of dedicated staff who live out our vision and put the success and happiness of our students at the heart of everything we do. This is underpinned by our core values of Trust, Resilience, Excellence and Kindness. After a period of transformational change, we recently welcomed Ofsted to the school (December 2023) and we look forward to sharing our new report, once released, as part of this interview process.

School location

Get a job alert when similar jobs are listed

Find more school jobs in Norfolk