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SEMH Primary Teacher

Kingsway Primary School, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE3 3BD

This job expired on 24 February 2025 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  24 February 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  13 February 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: MPS/UPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

Qualifications

Essential

Qualified Teacher

Desirable

Evidence of post-qualification in relationto SEMH development record.

Experience of working in a SpecialistSchool.

Experience

Essential

At least 2 years’ teaching experience in aSpecial SEMH educational setting.

Desirable

Experience of working with youngpeople in the Key Stage 1 to 2 range.

Experience of leading a range ofeducational initiatives.

Experience of more than one school.

Curriculum

Essential

Understanding of current curriculum issues with particular reference to the teaching students with SEMH needs.

Understanding of the importance of the inter-relationship between all areas of the curriculum in a primary school.

Understanding of the range of teaching strategies appropriate to the needs of the students, to help fill gaps in learning from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 2

Desirable

Evidence of clear ideas about how the curriculum could develop to meet the need of all abilities.

Evidence of ability to advise staff on SEMH curricular issues and student progress.

Evidence of the use of technology skills in monitoring student progress.

Evidence of enhancing SEMH across the wider community (MAT wide).

Ability to plan and teach a creativeCurriculum

Leadership andManagement

Essential

Ability to play an active part in TheShine @ Kingsway team

Ability to communicate effectively with staff, students, and parents.

Ability to work with colleagues in the family of schools.

Understanding of role of SpecialistSEMH Teacher in a ‘School within a school’ setting.

Desirable

Evidence of being an effective member of a team.

Evidence of successfully leading acurriculum initiative.

Evidence of contributing to a significant curriculum change.

Evidence of effective collaboration with colleagues in other phases.

Involvement in SEMH Specialist School developments.

Students

Essential

Understanding of the importance of supportive student/adult relationships.

Understanding of the range of factors which affect students’ progress.

Ability to communicate effectively with young people.

Ability to deal with student behaviour issues.

Ability to analyse data on student

progress and work with staff andstudents on the use of data for target setting.

Desirable

Evidence of effective relationships with young people.

Examples of a variety of strategies used with students to promote achievement and positive behaviour.

Evidence of the use of data analysis to promote achievement.

Evidence of supportive/developmentalwork with staff to improve behaviour management skills.

Parents and theCommunity

Essential

Understanding the huge importance of the partnership between Parents and schools across the LiFE Multi AcademyTrust.

Understanding of the Philosophy of the Trust, its schools and its wider community.

Desirable

Evidence of involvement withCommunity groups and/or Parents.

Personal Qualities

Essential

Ability to develop good relationships

Good communication skills.

High level of commitment to the Trust.

Ability to promote Trust and its schools in our local and national community.

Ability to work in a team, be self- organising and to meet deadlines

Ability to work under pressure.

Record of good attendance.

Resilience.

Desirable

Evidence of good working relations with a range of people.

Evidence of a willingness to work hard.

Be able to demonstrate that she/he has successfully worked as part of a team and be able to meet deadlines and achieve targets.

Evidence of resolving difficult, sensitive student issues

What the school offers its staff

Putting your trust in our Trust

We believe in your development. Everything we do is about creating a team of committed professionals who share our ambition for young pupils. If you believe in this too, we are committed to providing an exciting, enjoyable and rewarding working environment.

Coaching

Coaching is integral to our success. We support colleagues through coaching; enabling deep reflection, which has allowed us to build a bold, creative and aspirational culture, where collaboration with peers and new approaches to practice are encouraged.

Personal Improvement Planversus Performance Management

Instead of the usual performance management, we encourage our staff to identify aspirational targets through our ‘Personal Improvement Plan’ (PIP) process. With your coach, you will look to make significant progress in a critical area of your practice; we believe in valuing the process of improvement not pass or fail numerical targets.

Health and Wellbeing Strategies

Having happy and healthy staff is key to a successful organisation. The Trust is committed to:

• providing employees with a safe, healthy and supportive environment in which to work
• recognising that the health and wellbeing of our employees is important
• providing a supportive workplace culture where healthy lifestyle choices are valued and encouraged

We believe it is important that we are role models to our students of how to be a healthy adult. We actively promote the importance of a work life balance, offering support to staff on managing stress and workload, as well as a physical activity programme. Access to coaching, counselling and supervision is also available to all staff.

Presumed Professionalism

We have a ‘Presumed Professionalism’ ethos across the Trust. Our staff are professional educators and we recognise the need to support staff to enable a healthy work life balance to allow maximum impact whilst working with our young pupils and each other.We achieve this by allowing staff to sign out during their free periods, as long as professional duties are not affected. See our policy for further details.

Development of Professional Capital and Excellence

As a Trust we always look to invest in our staff and pride ourselves on our ‘home grown talent’.We pride ourselves on this and believe this has the biggest impact on how our staff understand their communities and make a difference to the lives of our young pupils.

Quite simply, our aim is to employ pupils who match our ethos and values and enable them to truly collaborate with colleagues across the Trust so that they are satisfied professionally. We provide outstanding training pathways which draw on excellence both within and outside of our Trust to enable you to build your professional capital.

Examples of the many opportunities we encourage staff to take up externally include:

• The National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership (NPQSL)
• The National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH)
• The National Professional Qualification for Middle Leadership (NPQML)
• The Outstanding Teacher Programme (OTP)
• Initial Teacher Training (ITT)

Pathways are available at apprenticeship level, NQT, aspiring middle leader, Lead Practitioner and aspiring senior leader level. Some of these courses are led by staff within the Trust and others are externally accredited. In addition, the Trust provides the opportunity of becoming an associate SLT member, enabling middle leaders to gain insight and experience of leadership at the highest level within a school.

Support staff have their own Personal Improvement Plan that they use as a tool to create a bespoke professional development plan. All support staff also receive Coaching and training opportunities, in order to help them feel empowered and in charge of their own development.

Across the Trust we pride ourselves on equal opportunities for all staff, irrespective of background, gender, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age.

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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Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Shine Teacher - Recruitment Pack -KNG February 2025.pdf - 976 KB (opens in new tab)

About Kingsway Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 315 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Kingsway Primary School website
• Email address: apearce@kingsway.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/kingsway-primary-school

The Burrow @ Kingsway is a small specialist SEMH provision located within The Winstanley School and Kingsway Primary School, with a genuine mainstream collaboration, partnership and learning experiences for every young person.

The Burrow @ Kingsway Primary School is a lovely place to work. It is a small school setting in the middle of Kingsway North in Braunstone Town where children learn, play and grow. Our children love coming to The Burrow and feel happy and safe when they are there. As a small provision each child receives a highly personalised education, building positive relationships with the adults that they work with. Our Burrow team are committed to making a positive difference to the lives of the children theywork with and go above and beyond to ensure that every day is creative and engaging.

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