33 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    16 January 2025 at 3pm

  • Date listed

    29 November 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

Between £31,650 and £49,084

Additional allowances

MPR+UPR+SEN Allowance

What skills and experience we're looking for

Qualifications

  • Qualified Teacher Status
  • Good Honours Degree
  • At least 3 years’ experience of working in a primary, secondary or special school.
  • Experience of or a strong proven desire to work with pupils with social, emotional and mental health needs
  • Training in teaching children complex social emotional and mental health needs along with behavioural difficulties
  • Team Teach 12 hr basic
  • First Aid qualification

Knowledge and skills

The ability to effectively:

  • Create a stimulating and safe learning environment.
  • Establish and maintain a purposeful working atmosphere.
  • Plan, prepare and deliver the curriculum as relevant to the age and ability group/subject that you teach, other relevant initiatives and the school’s own policies.
  • Assess and record the progress of pupils’ learning to inform next steps and monitor progress.
  • Demonstrate a commitment to equal opportunities and use a variety of strategies and practices to promote the diverse cultural and equality issues in the classroom.
  • Teach using a wide variety of strategies to maximise achievement for all children including those with special educational needs and high achievers and to meet differing learning styles.
  • Encourage children in developing self-esteem and respect for others.
  • Deploy a wide range of effective behaviour management strategies, successfully.
  • Communicate to a range of audiences (verbal, written, using ICT as appropriate).
  • Use ICT to advance pupils’ learning, and use common ICT tools for their own and pupils’ benefit.
  • The ability to interpret data reflectively and to question what it might really mean
  • Experience in monitoring, analysing and reporting of progress and attainment

What the school offers its staff

The successful candidate will be joining a school that offers many other personal benefits including:

§ A positive, friendly and professional working environment.

§ An opportunity to work with an amazing group of young people.

§ Bespoke and comprehensive induction package for new staff followed up with outstanding CPD.

§ A subsidised Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).

§ A talented and supportive Senior Leadership Team and dedicated Governing Body.

§ A supportive environment in which your talents will be encouraged, nurtured and rewarded.

§ Access to Schools Advisory Service and other wellbeing platforms, including cycle to work, and other platforms which give employee benefits and inspire a unique employee experience, enriching personal and working lives

  • Employee Assistance Programme, on-site HR management, free parking

Application Forms and vacancy details may be requested by visiting our school website at www.highwellschool.org.uk

Further details about the role

Main purpose of the job:

  • Be responsible for the learning and achievement of all pupils in the class/es ensuring equality of opportunity for all
  • Be responsible and accountable for achieving the highest possible standards in work and conduct
  • Treat pupils with dignity, building relationships rooted in mutual respect, and at all times observing proper boundaries appropriate to a teacher’s professional position
  • Work proactively and effectively in collaboration and partnership with learners, parents/carers, governors, other staff and external agencies in the best interests of pupils
  • Act within, the statutory frameworks, which set out their professional duties and responsibilities and in line with the duties outlined in the current School Teachers Pay and Conditions Document and Teacher Standards (2017)
  • Take responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people within the school

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 headteacher@highwell.org.uk

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About High Well School

School type
Special school, ages 9 to 16
School size
106 pupils enrolled
Age range
9 to 16
Phone number
01924572100

High Well School is a Special School which caters for a minimum of seventy 9-16 year olds with an Education Health & Care Plan for severe and profound social, emotional and mental health needs as well as other learning difficulties. The School meets the needs of some of Wakefield’s most complex and vulnerable young people.

High Well endeavours to provide a nurturing environment with personalised support and specialist teaching to enable our pupils to re-engage in learning, develop their social and emotional skills and leave with not only appropriate qualifications but the skills required to succeed in life after school. This is reflected in our vision of ‘Preparing for Positive Futures’.

Arranging a visit to High Well School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email headteacher@highwell.org.uk.

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