SEND Teacher

Beckmead Park Academy, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 3BZ

27 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  4 January 2026 at 12:30pm

• 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: Teachers Main payscale (Outer London) £36,413 FTE - £48,532 FTE

SEND Teacher job summary

The Beckmead Trust is an expanding learning and nurturing community for young people with Educational Health Care Plans and various types of additional needs across various sites.  We are seeking an experienced Class Teacher to join The Beckmead Park Academy.

As part of the Beckmead Trust, our ethos involves close collaboration with specialist and mainstream schools, outside specialist agencies with enhanced knowledge of our children’s needs and the private, voluntary and charity sectors within the communities in which we work. 

If you share our vision of Love, Flourishing, Community and Social Justice. and if you have a desire to make a real difference to the lives of children in Croydon, we would welcome an application from you. 

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

The Beckmead Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people so expect all staff, volunteers and contractors, to share this commitment. As part of our safeguarding commitment, appointment to any post is subject to receipt of satisfactory references, medical clearance (including the ability to participate in Physical Intervention), satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check as well as evidence of the right to live and work in the United Kingdom. We will also carry out an online search on shortlisted candidates to help identify any incidents/issues which are publicly available online.

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 Beckmead Park Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 16
• School size: 120 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Beckmead Park Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/beckmead-park-academy

SEN SCHOOL: Beckmead Park Academy, is an all-through mixed SEN school situated over three sites in the London Borough of Croydon:

Bramley Bank - Key Stage 1 & 2
Beckmead School - Key Stage 2 & 3
Tharreo House - Key Stage 3 & 4

We have 136 pupils on roll with most having an Educational Health Care Plan.

All of our pupils have Social, Emotional and Mental Health difficulties with associated challenging behaviour; many have additional needs, including: Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Speech, Language and Communication Difficulties, ADHD and Severe Social Anxieties. We offer a nurturing approach to education and social development and employ a therapy team, working in a range of different disciplines, such as play, music, drama, art and Lego therapy. We also have strong working relationships with CAMHS, the Early Help and social care teams.

We deliver a broad and balanced curriculum that can be tailored to meet the individual needs of our pupils. We try to take into account their interests and aptitudes, whilst building core skills and supporting a strong knowledge base. Our pupils are taught within the nurture model with high staff pupil ratios that enable us to provide an individualised, bespoke approach to learning.

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