9 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    20 October 2024 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    24 September 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Subjects

Art & Design, Special Needs

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£31,650.00 - £49,084.00 Annually (FTE) SEN Allowance - £2,679 per annum 1.0 FTE

SEN Art Teacher job summary

We are looking to recruit a resilient Teacher, with a passion for Art.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced teacher looking to move into an optimistic and motivating environment, supported by effective leadership at all levels. As a key member of the teaching team, you will ensure high standards of teaching and learning are delivered to our students, offering a nurturing and topic-based curriculum, to ensure that they are able to access learning

Successful applicants will be qualified teachers with demonstrable experience of raising expectations and attainment in the classroom. You will hold a deep passion for transforming the lives of young people and have an understanding of inclusive practices to support students experiencing Emotional, Behavioural and Social Difficulties. Applications from candidates with primary training and experience with SEMH are particularly welcomed.

Hamilton School is an SEMH (Social, Emotional, and Mental Health) Special School in Reading educating up to 64 students with Education, Health Care Plans (EHCP). Our mission is to recognise each and every one of our students as individuals, and to nurture their potential, developing the whole child through a therapeutic approach. This means that you would have to be a resilient character who is able to remain positive when dealing with challenging behaviour. The school is proud to have recently opened its doors to a state-of-the-art building with wonderful new facilities for both pupils and staff.

In January 2020 Hamilton School joined the Maiden Erlegh Trust family of schools, whose motto is “Aim High, Be Inclusive, Work Together”. The aim for every school in the Trust, whilst espousing their values and ethos, and having a core of common policies and procedures, will serve its own community’s needs in a bespoke way and also create a feeling of community within its own school. In that way all the potential and talents of every child and every member of staff will be nurtured.

Being part of the Maiden Erlegh Trust also offers a range of career opportunities across our schools. For our teaching team we offer a flexible CPD programme which staff can tailor to their own needs which includes coaching and training for new entrants to the profession and to support career returners.

We have a proven track record of supporting ambitious staff in to middle and senior leadership posts and can offer opportunities to broaden your impact on the sector through the work of the Maiden Erlegh Institute. We are very happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, including part-time working and job-sharing

If you would like to have an informal chat with the hiring manager or visit the school, please email our recruitment team on recruitment@maidenerleghtrust.org who can help organise this.

The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint before the closing date.

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 Hamilton School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
School size
60 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18

Hamilton School is special school based in Reading, catering for children in years 7-13 with SEMH.

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