SEND Teacher

Danecourt School, Gillingham, Kent, ME8 6AA

49 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP, Jan or April

• Closing date

  12 December 2025 at 10:59pm

• Date listed

  21 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £32,916.00 - £45,352.00 Annually (Actual) MPS 1 - 6 (£32,916- £45,352) / UPS (£474,472 - £51,048) + SEN Allowance

SEND Teacher job summary

Join Danecout School as a SEND Teacher! Where every small step leads to something extraordinary

Hours: 27.5 hours per week Contract: Permanent Weeks Per Year: 39 Start Date: ASAP or TBC Actual Salary: MPS 1 - 6 (£32,916 - £45,352) / UPS (£47,472 - £51,048) + SEN Allowance

About The Role

Are you ready to teach where every achievement—no matter how small—matters deeply?
At Danecourt School, part of the Maritime Academy Trust, we’re seeking exceptional SEND Teachers to join our award-winning team. You’ll lead learning in one of our small specialist classes, teaching children with complex needs including autism, communication differences, and sensory processing challenges.

This is more than a teaching role — it’s a chance to make a lasting difference in a setting where care, creativity, and curiosity are celebrated.

You will:

• Design and deliver personalised learning journeys aligned with EHCP outcomes and each pupil’s unique strengths.

• Work closely with our talented teaching assistants, therapists, and pastoral team to provide holistic support.

• Build trusting relationships with families and celebrate every milestone, no matter how small.

• Model inclusive, trauma-informed practice and contribute to the whole-school vision for inclusion.

• Play a key part in shaping the next phase of Danecourt’s exciting growth

Who You Are

You’re an inspiring, patient, and passionate teacher who sees potential where others see challenge.

You bring:

• QTS and a genuine passion for supporting children with SEND.

• Creativity and flexibility in planning meaningful, multisensory learning experiences.

• Strong communication and teamwork skills — you thrive in a collaborative environment.

• A reflective and resilient mindset, always seeking new ways to help pupils flourish.

• Whether you’re an experienced SEND practitioner or a skilled mainstream teacher ready for a new challenge, we’ll help you grow into your next chapter.

What We Offer

At Danecourt, you’ll be part of a supportive, forward-thinking, and nurturing team that lives by our STARS values — Self-reliant, Team Player, Aspirational, Resilient, Successful.

Here’s what you can expect:

• A role with real purpose — you won’t just be teaching, you’ll be unlocking potential. Every day brings moments of progress and joy as our children achieve things they never thought possible.

• Protected PPA time, including one day every fortnight working from home.

• Tailored CPD & Career Growth: from SEND specialism pathways to leadership development, we’re proud of our “grow our own” approach.

• Innovative CPD delivered through our LearnUpon platform — bitesize, practical, and designed for busy teaching lives.

• A holistic, child-centred environment with access to therapy support, outdoor learning, and sensory spaces — including our new immersive installation.

• Collaboration across the Trust, sharing best practice and expertise through our Maritime Outreach Support Service.

• A supportive team culture — united in purpose and proud to make a difference for children with SEND.

• Staff wellbeing focus, including an Employee Assistance Programme, wellbeing leads, and a culture of care.

• Proud Winner of the Medway Parents and Carers Forum SEND Award for Primary Special School Provision and holder of the Inclusion Quality Mark’s Inclusive School Award — recognising our commitment to excellence for every child and family.

Ready to Make A Difference?

We’d love to welcome you for a visit — come and see what makes Danecourt so special. Please contact the school office on 01634 232589 to arrange.

You’ll find more about the role, school, and Trust in the Candidate Information Pack attached. Apply now via My New Term — we may interview and appoint as applications are received, so don’t delay!

Danecourt School and the Maritime Academy Trust embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and the successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and online checks in line with safeguarding guidance.

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.

Commitment to safeguarding

Maritime Academy Trust is committed to recruiting with care and safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS and pre-employment checks.

Applying for the job

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

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Danecourt School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• School size: 257 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Danecourt School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/danecourt-school

Danecourt is a special school catering for primary aged children who have special educational needs. The school caters for children with a wide breadth of need including complex learning difficulties, autism and social emotional mental health needs.

At Danecourt our mission is to provide all pupils with a “stimulating learning environment that allows children to explore through a personalised curriculum to become STARS!

Self reliant Team Player Aspirational Resilient Successful

The highly trained staff teams maintain high expectations of what each individual pupil is able to achieve, striving to ensure that they all achieve their maximum potential; celebrating difference and encouraging curiosity and creativity. Staff work collaboratively with families and a range of other agencies in order to meet the pupils needs and as a result, they make strong progress academically, emotionally and socially. Pupil achievement is hugely valued and celebrated in a manner that is meaningful and appropriate for each pupil.

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