Nurture Teacher
Thames Park Secondary School, Grays, RM17 5FP2 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
5 July 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
24 June 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time: FTE: 100%
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Teacher Main Scale/Upper Pay Scale (£31,350.00- £47,839.00 per annum)
Additional allowances
SEND allowance available for the suitable candidate
What skills and experience we're looking for
Thames Park Secondary School is committed to providing a nurturing and inclusive environment where every student can thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. We are looking for a dedicated and passionate Nurture Teacher to join our team and help support the unique needs of our nurture students.
As a Nurture Teacher, you will be responsible for planning, developing, and delivering high-quality lessons that address the social, emotional, and academic needs of students in the nurture group. You will play a vital role in building self-esteem, emotional regulation, and social skills development.
Key Responsibilities:
- Plan and deliver nurturing lessons tailored to the needs of students with social, emotional, and behavioural difficulties (SEBD).
- Liaise with other subject leads to ensure the needs of all students are met.
- Track student progress, set and monitor targets, and take appropriate action based on student outcomes.
- Coordinate extra-curricular clubs and activities relevant to nurture students, such as social skills groups and emotional regulation workshops.
The ideal candidate will have:
- Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). Unqualified candidates with strong work experience within a school will be considered.
- Proven experience working with students with SEBD.
- An understanding of and interest in the principles of Nurture.
- Ability to lead and develop the Nurture curriculum.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
What the school offers its staff
We are very proud of how we value and look after our staff. The school is a part of Osborne Co-operative Academy Trust, where staff wellbeing is a priority. With twelve member schools within Essex, all schools in the Trust work in equal partnership and are members of the schools’ Co-operative Society. Our Co-operative Values focus on enabling all students to achieve their potential both academically and as young people.
Why apply for Thames Park Secondary School?
Thames Park Secondary School opened in September 2020, and in September 2022, we moved into our £25 million state of the art facilities. Thames Park Secondary School aims to provide an outstanding education for all its students. We have a strong focus on digital education running throughout our curriculum as each of our student has access to their own Chrome book to enhance their learning experience. We are passionate about making our learning both exciting and memorable through our ACE framework for teaching and learning.
We aim to provide all students with an education that is tailored to support their academic development as well as their well-being; physically, mentally and spiritually. We have a clear set of co-operative values; self-help, self-responsibility, equity, equality, democracy and solidarity. These values underpin everything we do. These values are not just words but help to create the“Thames Park Way.”
We are a school which is firmly rooted in serving our community. We are proud to be an inclusive co-educational school where we recognise that success for young people is built on firm foundations of trust, respect, care and hard work. We measure our success by much more than exam results as we recognise that such data tells only a part of the story of each of our young people. Thames Park is already a great place to teach and learn and we have many strengths including:
- Motivated and polite pupils, who have a strong voice in the school with diversity champions and student parliament
- Staff are aided by extensive and wide-ranging in-house support and coaching, by dedicated and helpful colleagues
- Part of a knowledgeable and dynamic Trust with supportive governors, Trustee’s and Central Staff with a robust understanding of education
In return for your hard work you will receive:
- Relocation package (where applicable) of up to £8,000 for new employees renting or buying a property
- Support from highly experienced SLT members, and the wider trust network and collaboration with our other schools
- Support network for all staff including managing workloads and work-life balance
- Career progression throughout the Trust, with the ability to progress in other schools
- Recognition of continuous service
- Excellent CPD opportunities through the school and the trust
- Fully Subsided Employee Assistance Programme
- Excellent behaviour management policy to support all staff
- National Conditions of Service
- Automatic enrolment into the National Teachers Pension Scheme
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to hr@osborne.coop
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About Thames Park Secondary School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 362 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Thames Park Secondary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@osborne.coop
- Phone number
- 01375648901
Thames Park Secondary School. opened to Year 7 pupils in central Grays in September 2020 as a brand new school. Grays is a vibrant, dynamic, rewarding and inspiring place to work, and enjoys excellent transport links. The area is undergoing large scale redevelopment in Europe as part of the Thames Gateway Development. We are part of a £20+ million building programme and will have excellent, purpose-built accommodation with state of the art specialist equipment and facilities in September 2022. We are the newest school in the Osborne Co-operative Academies Trust which comprises of 12 schools.
Arranging a visit to Thames Park Secondary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@osborne.coop.
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