Primary School / Specialist SEND Teacher
Rugby Free Secondary School, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV22 5PE37 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September
Closing date
2 September 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
16 July 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
Primary School / Specialist SEND Teacher job summary
Specific Areas of Responsibility and Key Tasks:
- To promote the development of children and young people with autism, SEMH and other learning barriers, providing advice, support and specialist teaching in keeping with their profile of needs as outlined on their EHCP
- To work directly with children, parents, carers, other professionals and educational settings to ensure that these children and young people reach their potential and maximise communication development, educational progress and social and emotional resilience
- To work collaboratively with colleagues, within the SRP and wider school
- Take on the role of key worker as needed
- To use professional skills and judgement to contribute to the delivery of high quality teaching and learning
- Planning challenging teaching and learning objectives
- Effective use of differentiation and personalised curriculums
- To evaluate and adjust plans to ensure students’ needs are met
- To select and prepare appropriate resources to lead learning activities
- To evaluate, record and provide reports on student responses and progress
- To assess monitor and report on the progress of individuals as required and use all available data to inform decisions on level and frequency of support and intervention
- To work closely with the parents/carers and families and engage them in planning to improve their child’s outcomes and keep them fully informed through regular communication and review meetings
- To support students to meet their potentials
- To enhance the practice of teachers and associate staff by providing appropriate advice and support
- To promote awareness of communication and interaction needs and how best to support these
- To be committed to your own continuing professional development and keep up to date with national, regional and local issues which affect the education of students with autism, SEMH and other learning barriers.
Teaching
- To undertake an appropriate programme of teaching in accordance with the duties of a main scale teacher.
Additional Duties
- To play a full part in the life of the school community, to support its distinctive ethos and to encourage other staff and students to follow this example
Safeguarding
Rugby Free Secondary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this and the below commitments.
- To ensure that all students have a safe environment in which they can learn, reporting any concern about the environment to a member of the site team or if appropriate to one of the Designated Safeguarding Leaders.
- To be aware of systems which support safeguarding and following the procedures as highlighted in the Safeguarding Policy
- To identify children who may benefit from early help as soon as possible and discuss this with one of the Designated Safeguarding Leaders
- To consider at all times what is in the best interests of the child
- To protect children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care
- To take action to enable all children to have the best outcomes
- Checking of visitor identification, especially at the point of school entry and the issuing of relevant safeguarding information.
This job description does not form part of the contract of employment. It describes the way the post holder is expected and required to perform and complete the particular duties as set out in the foregoing paragraphs.
The job description will be reviewed at least once a year and it may be subjected to modification or amendment at any time after consultation with the holder of the post.
The school will endeavour to make any necessary reasonable adjustments to the job and the working environment to enable access to employment opportunities for disabled applicants or continued employment for any employee who develops a disabling condition. This job description is current at the date shown but in consultation with the post holder may be changed by the Headteacher to reflect or anticipate changes in the job commensurate with the grade and job title.
We reserve the right to withdraw this vacancy at any time.
Learning Today, Leading Tomorrow (LT2) is committed to safeguarding children; successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. LT2 is always happy to receive speculative applications from excellent teachers and support staff.
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.
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About Rugby Free Secondary School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1099 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Rugby Free Secondary School website (opens in new tab)
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