Nurture Teacher

Thomas Ashton School, Hyde, Cheshire, SK14 4SS

17 days remaining to apply

Start date details
April 2026
Closing date
23 February 2026 at 9am
Date listed
6 February 2026

Job details

Job role: Teacher
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Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage: Key stage 2, Key stage 3
Working pattern: Full time: 1.0 FTE
Contract type: Permanent
Pay scale: Teachers / Upper / Unqualified Pay Scale
Additional allowances: SEN - £2,539 per annum
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What skills and experience we're looking for

A Tough Role. A Transformative Reward. A Legacy to Build.

This is an emotionally demanding role, but it is also one of the most meaningful, purpose driven opportunities in education today.

You will see growth others thought impossible, help children rewrite their stories, and be part of something much bigger than a job.

What We’re Looking For

We are seeking someone who:

Believes deeply in the power of relationships
Leads with warmth, consistency and unconditional positive regard
Understands child development, attachment and SEMH
Can stay calm while supporting pupils through dysregulation
Wants to help shape a new provision at its very beginning
Has the resilience to persevere and the heart to connect

Why This Is a Unique Opportunity?

As our KS2 Nurture Teacher with leadership responsibility for Nurture across both sites (KS2 & 3), you will:

Shape and refine our new nurture spaces and ethos
Design trauma‑informed pathways and interventions
Coach, guide and model nurture practice for colleagues
Influence strategy across an expanding SEMH school
Build environments where children feel safe, valued and believed in

This is not simply joining a school it is helping create the next chapter of a specialist SEMH provision within the highly respected New Bridge MAT.

What the school offers its staff

New Bridge Multi-Academy Trust is a vibrant, aspirational and inclusive multi-academy trust of eight special schools and two specialist post-16 provisions across Oldham, Tameside and Rochdale. As part of the wider New Bridge Group there are also two post-19 provisions. Our settings support a wide spectrum of needs from age 4-19 and beyond. The Trust is proud to be national leaders in Special Education and has a culture of creating outstanding opportunities for all.

Thomas Ashton School is on the brink of an exciting new chapter, and we are looking for a practitioner with deep compassion, resilience and vision to help shape it. This is your opportunity to be part of the design, launch and leadership of a brand‑new Nurture provision in Tameside, part of a long-term legacy programme that will change lives for years to come.

This work will be tough. Our children have complex needs, significant SEMH challenges and often histories of trauma.

But the relationships you build…

The trust you earn…

The breakthroughs you witness…

They will be some of the most rewarding experiences of your career.

At the heart of everything we do is unconditional positive regard the belief that every child deserves consistency, dignity, safety and an adult who will stay with them, even on the hardest days.

We can offer you

A supportive and values-led culture
Generous pension scheme
High quality continuing professional development (CPD) through our dedicated Everyone Learning Team
Hospital Saturday Fund (HSF), with access to HSF Assist and Perk Box
Trust TOIL Scheme for all staff
The opportunity to be part of our thriving team, who are committed to creating meaningful futures for both our students and staff

Visit Us, Feel the Vision

We warmly encourage candidates to visit, walk the spaces, and feel the ethos for themselves.

For visits or further information, please contact: David Butterworth, Headteacher - David.butterworth@newbridgegroup.org

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

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.