Post 19 Life Skills Teacher
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Job start date
1 September 2019
Closing date
24 March 2019 at 12am (midnight)
Date listed
11 March 2019
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
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Working pattern
Full-time equivalent salary
- Main pay range 1 to Main pay range 6, £27,596 to £38,963
Additional allowances
We value our staff and offer excellent training and support, membership of the Teachers Pension Scheme, employee assistance programme and other wellbeing benefits.
Post 19 Life Skills Teacher job summary
Great Oaks College
Job Description for Class Teacher
Grade: MPS plus SEN point
Please note that the sensory and life skills pathway courses operate from 10am-4pm, and the vocational course from 9am-3pm
Main purpose of the job
To carry out the professional duties of a teacher as set out in the school teachers pay and conditions document.
Teachers On Life Skills and Vocational Courses
• To teach English, maths, ICT, PHSCE, to one/two groups of students.
• To deliver lessons in life skills and/or vocational subjects according to timetabled need.
Teachers on Sensory Pathway Course
• To teach all aspects of the sensory curriculum.
All students in Great Oaks College will be working towards qualifications. Their targets will be set to meet both the needs identified in EHCPs and to enable them to meet the standards required by examination boards.
Support students in presenting evidence according to the requirements the relevant qualification.
Main responsibilities and tasks
1. To lead teams and deploy teaching assistants to support pupil learning, therapy and care needs.
2. To maintain the classrooms and other learning environments and ensure these are organised to meet pupil needs.
3. To plan modules of work according to pupil need, IEP aims and College curriculum including the requirements of examining bodies.
4. To assess and record pupil progress using, M levels and entry levels of Attainment. To record assessment appropriately and collect evidence of progress made using college systems.
5. To write reports for Annual Review for all pupils taught.
6. To maintain pupil information.
7. To liaise with the multi-professional team in respect of the education of the pupils. To ensure that therapy programmes are incorporated in teaching and carried out.
8. To write reports for other agencies on request as the need arises.
9. To maintain clear effective communication with parents, carers, the college management team, colleagues, College Board and supporting agencies.
10. To maintain positive relationships with families, communicating with them regularly and attending parent’s evenings, dates and times set annually.
11. To carry out risk assessments with respect to activities both in and out of college.
12. To participate in own professional development, working with a line manager to evaluate and develop own performance. All teachers at Oaklands receive regular support and development meetings with a line manager.
13. To participate in whole College continuous improvement including participating in leading and evaluation INSET programmes and in contributing to the College Development Plan. INSET programme takes place on Tuesdays from 3.45-4.45pm.
14. To attend training as identified in both the College development plan and the teachers own review plan.
Curriculum Team membership role
15. Curriculum Responsibilities will be discussed on appointment. Teachers are likely to be responsible for the course on which they are teaching.
16. Maintain and develop medium term plans indicating how learning activities will be delivered and targets met.
17. Design, organise and maintain resources for course delivery.
Commitment to safeguarding
Oaklands School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, teaching and non-teaching (including temporary and supply staff), governors and volunteers to share this commitment.
Successful applicants for all vacancies will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service
About Oaklands School
- School type
- Special school, ages 4 to 19
- School size
- 225 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Oaklands School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@oaklands.uk.net
Oaklands is an ‘outstanding’ special school serving the London Borough of Hounslow that provides specialist education to students with severe learning difficulties, profound and multiple difficulties and autism aged 4-19.
We have a Primary school (New Oaks), and a Secondary school (High Oaks). We are based across two different sites with both our school buildings offering state of the art facilities for our students and we serve a socially and ethnically diverse population, with children coming from within Hounslow and the surrounding Boroughs.
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