Learning Zone Specialist Teacher
Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School, Crewe, Cheshire, CW4 7DX14 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2027
Closing date
24 September 2026 at 9am
Date listed
10 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher or lecturer
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3
Working pattern
- Part time: 0.8, 4 days, Monday to Thursday
Contract type
- Fixed term - Up to 1 year - Maternity or parental leave cover
Full time equivalent salary
- £38,399 and £46,939
What skills and experience we're looking for
Learning Zone Lead - Specialist Teacher
Main Pay Scale
Part Time, 0.8, temporary Maternity Cover
Start January 2027
We are looking for an innovative and creative teacher to cover a period of maternity leave from January 2027. The role was introduced to ensure all students within our care are making progress via robust interventions to close gaps, whilst supporting mainstream learning, providing the best possible educational provision and outcomes.
Working alongside the Director of Inclusion and SENDCo you will demonstrate a clear understanding of the challenges of delivering consistent, quality learning opportunities to students with higher and complex needs.
The successful candidate will hold QTS and evidence considerable experience in the following:
Working with children with SEN, particularly cognition and learning needs, and other additional needs.
Researching, planning, preparing, and delivering outstanding lessons.
Developing and delivering flexible and purposeful, individualised curriculum, often to a small cohort.
Robust baseline, assessing and tracking of both traditional and non-traditional curriculum and learning programmes.
Working with internal colleagues, critical friends, parents, and clinicians as well as the network of external colleagues in Local Authority SEN teams.
High levels of self-reflection, motivation to improve own practice and a solution focused, positive approach to operational challenges.
Management and direction of a team of support staff.
Closing date: 9am, Thursday 24th September
Interviews will be held the following week
Applications should be made through the TES website.
NOR 1214 including 139 in the Sixth Form
What the school offers its staff
We believe in a culture of collaboration, empowerment and ownership so that we consistently deliver the best possible experience for all of our children, families and colleagues. We are committed to being part of a community of learners and recognising how we can work collaboratively to be more effective in managing workload and building professional resilience. In securing a post here, you will join a team of dedicated colleagues who enjoy the reward of working with an outstanding group of learners and colleagues who are there for each other.
For further details please visit our website: www.hccs1978.co.uk. To arrange an informal discussion or visit please contact Helen Mayes, HR Manager on helen.mayes@hccs.info
Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School and Sixth Form College trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All roles involve contact with children and are thus engaged in regulated activity relevant to children. Shortlisted candidates will be subject to references and online searches. Employment is subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1311 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- helen.mayes@hccs.info
- Phone number
- 01477 410500
Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School & Sixth Form College is a co-educational academy school based in Cheshire for students aged 11-18. It is a non-denominational school.
The school became an academy in 2011 and uses a house system. Houses are used as the basis of the pastoral system at the school and each Head of House works closely with all staff to oversee the practical and behavioural issues affecting students in their house.
Executive Headteacher - Nigel Bielby
Values and vision
Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School & Sixth Form College believes that in order to develop its students and genuinely prepare them for a changing world, it must develop their sense of citizenship and seek to promote their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development at every opportunity.
The school also wishes for its pupils to reflect on the values that underpin British society and life. It aims to achieve this both through its curriculum and through many other aspects of daily school life, including tutor time, assemblies, extra-curricular activities, charitable activities, and community service.
The School is also dedicated to requiring all members of its community and of its visitors to demonstrate respect in their relationships with each other and in their conduct around the school.
Arranging a visit to Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email helen.mayes@hccs.info.
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