Nurture Teacher/SEMH Specialist

Queen Katharine Academy, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE4 6HX

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2025

• Closing date

  14 October 2024 at 9am

• Date listed

  27 September 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Special Education Needs (SEN)
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: MPS/UPS

Nurture Teacher/SEMH Specialist job summary

Nurture Teacher/SEMH Specialist

Contract: Permanent

Salary: MPS/UPS

Site: Queen Katharine Academy

Closing date: 14th October 2024

Start: January 2025

Please note – Thomas Deacon Education Trust withhold the right to withdraw the advert and/or interview suitable candidates before the specified closing date.

Are you a qualified teacher looking to inspire and support students in a specialist SEMH provision?

Do you excel in modelling outstanding literacy practices across various age groups and abilities?

If so, we invite you to apply for the role of Nurture Teacher/SEMH Specialist at Queen Katharine Academy.

Your Role

You will work within our specialist SEMH (The Junction) provision at Queen Katharine Academy. You will have high ambitions and a positive approach to developing a nurture-based and personalised curriculum, dependent on the needs of individual learners, many of whom have significant difficulties with social, emotional and mental health.

You will be highly skilled and experienced with a clear understanding of nurturing principles and how they are applied to develop outstanding practices and outcomes for young people.

This exciting opportunity is possibly suitable for a primary teacher who is ambitious and has an interest in working with older students.

You will: 

Hold Qualified Teacher Status

Be able to model outstanding practice in literacy, both within the department and across the wider curriculum. 

Be able to prepare and deliver lessons to a range of classes of different ages and abilities. 

Be enthusiastic about helping young people to succeed. 

Have the ability to form strong professional relationships with young people. 

Have high expectations for the behaviour and academic progress of young people. 

Be ambitious and have the energy and creativity to make a significant contribution to the whole academy. 

About Us

It is truly exciting times for our SEMH provision, and we are looking forward to welcoming another colleague to join our highly driven and successful department, who will buy into our vision and culture and seek to be the best for our students at every opportunity.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a school within one of the well-regarded Trusts in the eastern region. The school has a great history of success and a bright and exciting future and we are looking for an ambitious and dynamic teacher to steer it through the next stage of its development. Collaboration, educational research and professional development are at the core of how the schools within Thomas Deacon Education Trust work together. With a clear focus on teaching at all levels, the Trust is well placed to provide great opportunities to promote Queen Katharine Academy as a leading school and you will be given effective support to develop you personally as an outstanding teacher.

Why work for us?

We are part of the Thomas Deacon Education Trust, and we can offer you:

- Progression opportunities across the Trust

- Continuous development, e.g. training, coaching

- Free eye test vouchers and flu vaccinations

- Cycle to work scheme

- £250 Recommend a friend scheme

- Access to the most generous pension schemes in the UK (LGPS & teachers’ pension scheme)

- Free & confidential Employee Assistance Programme

- Mental health first aiders

- Collaborative working across schools in the Trust

Thomas Deacon Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The Academy will require the successful candidate to provide satisfactory references and undertake an Enhanced Check with the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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About Queen Katharine Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1675 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Queen Katharine Academy website (opens in new tab)
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