SEN Class Teacher
Severndale Specialist Academy, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY2 5SH18 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2026
Closing date
2 February 2026 at 9am
Date listed
15 January 2026
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: FTE
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPR1 - UPR3
Additional allowances
SEN1
What skills and experience we're looking for
ESSENTIAL
- Qualified Teacher Status or QTLS for Post 16
- SEN experience.
- Awareness of current practice in relation to SEND
- Able to work as a member of a team. Effective leading of the class team. Ability to reflect on own practice. Reliability and integrity
- No Smoking Policy Undertake training in Restrictive Physical Prevention (Restraint)
DESIRABLE
- Evidence of higher level study/qualifications in SEN
- Breadth of SEN experience from mainstream à special school
- Involvement in local, regional, or national developments in SEN Post 16, SLD, MLD and CLDD
teaching experience
- TEAM TEACH Training Further qualification in SEN
What the school offers its staff
• Permanent contract
• Salary Mainscale / Upper Pay Scale plus SEN 1 point
• Access to the Schools Advisory Service
• Bike to work scheme
• Continuing Professional Development
• Teachers Pension Scheme
Further information about the job
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 Severndale Specialist Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 19
- School size
- 414 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Severndale Specialist Academy website
- Email address
- recruitment@severndaleacademy.co.uk
Severndale Specialist Academy:
Severndale Specialist Academy is a multi-site special school incorporating our Monkmoor campus, provision within a local mainstream secondary school and a purpose built 16-25 year old provision at our local college. We work with young people with special educational needs from within Shropshire and beyond. Our children and young people can access Severndale Specialist Academy from nursery age through to 25 and have a range of learning, physical and mobility difficulties and some students require personal care. Supporting communication and enabling independence is a key focus of our work .
Severndale is a truly unique special school and is one of the largest special schools in the country. We are proud to be able to meet the needs of over 430 young people across all abilities of the SEND spectrum and across three different sites. Severndale is also proud to be part of The Learning Community Trust, a truly inclusive multi academy trust based in Telford.
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