SEN Teacher with Curriculum TLR

John Watson School, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX33 1NN

10 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 January 2026

• Closing date

  6 October 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  26 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Head of department or curriculum
• 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
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: MPR/UPR
• Additional allowances:

  SEN Allowance 1 ; TLR 2

What skills and experience we're looking for

Person SpecificationEssential (Class Teacher)

• Meets Teachers’ Standards

• Recent classroom teaching experience

• Excellent understanding of safeguarding and risk management

• Strong classroom organisation and behaviour management skills

• Proven ability to manage and develop a class team

• Strong communication skills with pupils, parents, staff, and external professionals

• Excellent IT and assessment skills

• Commitment to SEN provision and inclusive practice

Additional Essential (Curriculum TLR)

• Experience contributing to school improvement through subject leadership

• Track record of coaching/mentoring staff to improve teaching and learning

• Ability to use pupil data to monitor progress within a curriculum area

• Strong people management skills and the ability to raise expectations beyond the classroom

• Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)

Desirable

• Proven ability to lead curriculum change or development

• Experience monitoring provision across a Key Stage and/or curriculum area

• Recent experience contributing to curriculum design and training colleagues

• Middle leadership training

• Postgraduate qualification in SEN or subject leadership

What the school offers its staff

We are proud of the fantastic learning culture at John Watson. The decisions we make are guided by SLICE.

These 5 areas drive the work of the school. Our aim is to empower each child to ensure they can live as full and as independent lives as possible…

Safety

Learning

Independence

Communication

Engagement

Teacher Vacancy

If you share our values of teamwork, inclusion and innovation and have high expectations of what children can achieve, we would love to hear from you. We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic teacher to join our existing committed team.

We are a Community Special School for children and young people from the ages of 2–19 years, with 116 on roll. Our pupils have severe learning difficulties, or profound and multiple learning difficulties. The designation of the school means that pupils typically have complex needs, and medical needs requiring a high degree of differentiation and bespoke provision. In most cases our pupils will be working below the national curriculum and the equivalent of Expected Levels for NCY1.

We value a happy, healthy and secure learning environment in which all the needs of pupils are met, enabling each young person to reach their individual potential and to maximise their independence.

We are judged Good by Ofsted (October 2022) and we are ambitious in our vision for the future provision for our pupils. We offer small classes, typically less than 10 pupils per class, working within large teams of support staff and additional NHS therapists, and have newly refurbished high-spec learning spaces throughout most of the school.

Please see our website www.johnwatsonschool.org for further information about the school. Please consider the job description and person specification below and complete an application form. Visits to the school are welcome and provide the chance to meet our pupils and staff, see our learning environment, and discuss the role- including the curriculum leadership responsibilities linked to the TLR.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Please complete the application form, which can be found on our website (www.johnwatsonschool.org), and return by email to sbm@johnwatsonschool.org.

Please do not send CVs; applications will only be considered using the correct application form. As part of our recruitment process we will require you to fill out an overseas check prior to interview. We will email this to you on receipt of your completed application.

Salary Details: MPR/UPR plus SEN Allowance 1

Job Term: Permanent position

Appointment Type: Full time (FTE)

Contact Telephone: 01865 452725

Closing Date: 9.00am Monday 6th October

Shortlisting: Monday 6th October

Interview Date: Friday 10th October

To start: 01/01/2026

Wheatley Site: Littleworth Road, Wheatley, Oxford, OX33 1NN

Holton Site: Steve Drywood Building, Wheatley Park School Campus, Holton, Oxford OX33 1QH

Tel: 01865 452 725

Commitment to safeguarding

Safer Recruitment
John Watson School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This post involves the type of work with children and young people that requires applicants to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post. All users are considered confidentially and according to the nature of the role and information disclosed.

Applying for the job

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CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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About John Watson School

• School type: Special school, ages 2 to 19
• School size: 113 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: John Watson School website
• Email address: sbm@johnwatsonschool.org
• Phone number: 01865 452725
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/john-watson-school

We cater for children and young people with Special Educational Needs from the ages of 2-19 years. The school is designated for SLD and PMLD pupils. The majority of the pupils are working at pre-KS1 levels. They are vulnerable learners with complex needs who need individualised provision to meet their medical and/or behavioural needs and to engage them in learning

Arranging a visit to John Watson School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email sbm@johnwatsonschool.org.

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