12 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    September 2025

  • Closing date

    3 July 2025 at 3:39pm

  • Date listed

    19 June 2025

Job details

Visa sponsorship

Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£31650 - £49084 per annum

SEN Class Teacher job summary

Main Pay Range/ Upper Pay Range + well-being cash plan + pension scheme (TPS) + additional Lift Schools benefits

Permanent, Full Time

September 2025 Start

Are you an outstanding teacher with special needs experience? Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of children and young people with severe and complex learning difficulties? If so, we want you to join our team at Pioneer School!

We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed SEN Class Teacher to join us from September 2025. You will be responsible for delivering a broad and balanced curriculum, facilitating a positive learning environment, and inspiring our students to achieve their full potential.

You're someone who is:

* Passionate about special needs education and has a proven track record of success.
* Able to motivate and inspire pupils of all abilities.
* Dedicated to meeting the individual needs of all students.
* A strong communicator with excellent interpersonal skills.
* A team player who is also able to work independently.

You're someone who has:

* Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
* Experience working with students with severe and complex learning difficulties.
* A secure knowledge of the SEND curriculum and assessment requirements.

About Pioneer Special School

Pioneer is a successful special school that provides for children and young people between the ages of 3 and 19. We have purpose-built facilities and a modern and inspiring learning environment, complete with a wide range of resources. We are committed to meeting the needs of all our pupils and enabling them to experience success

School visits are welcome, to arrange please contact us.

Closing date : 2nd July 2025

Who is Lift Schools?

We're a diverse and inclusive network of schools with one clear mission; to provide an excellent education to every child - in every classroom, every day. And we do this across each of our 57 schools. As with our students, we want our team to be empowered to do their best work, supported by the best leadership they've ever had.

We acknowledge and appreciate the exceptional efforts of everyone here in making this an incredible organisation.

We offer you:

* Career development and training: Access a wide range of statutory and developmental training to boost your career.

* Our partnership with One World powers our innovative Instructional Excellence Program. We also offer a comprehensive range of CPD programs, including Ambition Institute's Early Career and NPQ offerings, tailored to both individual and network needs.

* Generous benefits: From your pension plan to healthcare and financial support, we've got you covered.
* Lifestyle perks: Enjoy discounted gym memberships, travel deals, and even electric vehicle incentives.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.

Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

Lift Schools embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and there is a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Commitment to safeguarding

Trust-wide Safeguarding Policies and Guidance
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xx9JeXoOZqGWNwpks3UhEqn8Yi7Xjx5-3LIgS4MUJe0/edit#

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

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About The Pioneer School

School type
Academy, ages 3 to 19
School size
174 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 19
Ofsted report
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Welcome to Pioneer School!

As a growing community, everyone at Pioneer takes great pride in their work, this is evidenced in the quality of education and the progress, outcomes and achievements of all our young people. We are lucky to also have a modern and inspiring learning environment, complemented with a wide and varied range of resources to enhance the learning experience for all.

We have a holistic, child centred approach to meeting the needs of our pupils to enable them to find their remarkable. We look first at what each pupil needs to learn and plan personalised programmes to meet their intellectual, social, spiritual, moral, cultural, physical, emotional and therapeutic needs.

We have a highly motivated and dedicated staff team who are very committed to creating a school in which our pupils and students receive an outstanding education that prepares them for the next stage of their life.

Our school provides a fun and caring environment where children make exceptional progress.

We value the excellent relationships we have with parents and with a range of professionals, as we work together to enable our pupils to communicate, to develop socially and emotionally and to gain independence skills.

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