SEND Teacher - Communication and Interaction

East Whitby Primary Academy, Whitby, North Yorkshire, YO22 4HU

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025 or shortly after

• Closing date

  27 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  12 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Main Scale – M3 to M6, £35,674 - £43,607 per annum

What skills and experience we're looking for

Join our new Speech, Language and Communication Provision! This exciting opportunity is your chance to make a real positive impact to children with communication and interaction needs.

Our Opportunity

East Whitby Academy is seeking to appoint an experienced SEND Teacher to join our ambitious and committed team. Following on from the success of our Pegasus Class, we are expanding our SEND and alternative provision offering to include a new targeted provision that has a specific focus on Speech, Language and Communication Needs.

Next year we anticipate that we will have 6 children with significant and complex Speech, Language and Communication Needs. Your role is to be their class teacher and to lead teaching and learning. The appointed candidate will work alongside our SENCo and will be well-supported by the Senior Leadership Team and The Enquire Learning Trust who are committed to providing the very best teaching and learning for all our children and are ambitious for their achievement.

We are looking to appoint someone who:

• Speech, Language and Communication specific experience and qualifications are desirable but not essential
• is an experienced teacher of children with complex SEND
• is passionate about the rights of children with SEND and ambitious for their achievement every day
• shows compassion, resilience and patience in their care for children with SEND
• holds every child and their family in the highest possible regard and lead by example, having high expectations of what every child can achieve

This is an exciting opportunity to lead the development of SEND provision from the very start, and you will have the opportunity to bring your expertise to shape our future work.

Come and join our team of committed and passionate professionals.

What the school offers its staff

You will benefit from a newly refurbished setting, with high quality resources. As part of our team, you will have access to extensive continuous professional development from both the Trust and Local Authority.

Further details about the role

When applying please take into account the following:

Employment History

In line with KCSIE requirements, please complete your full employment history to ensure any gaps in your education and career history are accounted for.

Suitable References

When completing your application, please provide two employment referees. Generally, this should be your current and most recent Headteacher or line manager. Please note if your former Headteacher or line manager has since left, please use an alternative current senior staff member as they need to be in post at your former location to be able to confirm your details in full. Unfortunately, we cannot accept personal references or personal email addresses.Please get in touch for any queries if you are unsure.

Supporting Information

The supporting information section of your application should clearly evidence your ability to meet the requirements we have outlined in the job description & person specification. This will be used to shortlist applicants for this role and therefore it is imperative that you provide evidence as requested.

We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We have a robust child protection policy and all staff will receive training relevant to their role at induction and throughout employment at the school. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This post is subject to satisfactory references and enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service criminal records check for work with children. An online search may be undertaken as part of the recruitment process on information available in the public domain. Candidates should disclose anything that may be relevant in line withKeeping Children Safe in Education.

North Yorkshire Council (NYC) advertise vacancies and process applications on behalf of schools and external organisations (third parties) in North Yorkshire. NYC are not responsible for the recruitment/employment practices of third parties and accept no liability in relation to the vacancy and any subsequent recruitment/employment processes.

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.

Applying for the job

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About East Whitby Primary Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 212 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: East Whitby Primary Academy website
• Email address: chloe.bullen@northyorks.gov.uk
• Phone number: 01609 536 964
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/east-whitby-primary-academy

Dear applicant,

Allow me to extend a warm welcome from all governors, staff and children of East Whitby Primary Academy. I am delighted you have shown interest in joining us and I look forward to sharing with you what makes our school a very special place to work.

Our children are delightful, happy, confident and energetic. They are passionate about their learning, be it in the classroom or through other areas of our developed curriculum such as dance, art, PE and music.

Over many years together we have built a learning community that puts the whole child and their development, along with harnessing the skills of our staff at our very heart. You will be joining a school with low staff turnover and high staff retention and as Headteacher it is my job to make sure colleagues are supported and challenged to be life long learners.

We are looking for a teacher who can take the love of learning that our children come to school with each day, and use it to inspire awe and wonder; someone who can embrace all aspects of the curriculum.

Teaching at East Whitby is incredibly rewarding. Due to our well-deserved reputation across the area we place huge importance on developing talent – and in many ways our ‘project based ethos has resulted in many staff leading on whole school projects. I still get an incredible buzz from seeing our children reach their full potential through our staff training and development focus.

This is an exciting time to join us. As a proud primary member of the Enquire Learning Trust (a specialist primary trust of 29 schools), our team are working in partnership with our sister school Stakesby Primary to share, learn and create a primary hub our area can be proud of. Through our Trust we are able to access the support and resources from the soon to launched Teaching School, which means as a staff member you have a wide range of colleagues, tools and resources to help you develop not just in the classroom but beyond.

I hope that you will take the time to come and see and experience for yourself the warm and welcoming atmosphere which makes our vision a reality.

Good luck with your application. I look forward to reading it.

Simon Smith
Principal

Arranging a visit to East Whitby Primary Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email chloe.bullen@northyorks.gov.uk.

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