SEND Teacher

The Ropemakers' Academy, Hailsham, East Sussex, BN27 1FB

4 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  14 July 2026 at 12am (midnight)

• Date listed

  10 July 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher or Lecturer
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 32,916 FTE - £45,352 FTE. Teachers Main payscale M1 - M6

SEND Teacher job summary

Working in a special school is not always easy, but is highly rewarding. Our students are vulnerable, and can present challenging behaviours when they are distressed. However, if you see beyond those behaviours, and your instinct is to respond with a sense of love, care and kindness to meet their needs head on, then we really need to hear from you.

We are looking to recruit staff who are resilient, robust and nurturing whilst committed to providing children with a first class educational offer. Our core values are based around providing love, allowing our pupils to flourish, providing them with a belief in social justice and giving them a sense of community and identity.

By joining The Ropemakers’ Academy, you are joining a unique family. Our dedication to therapeutic practice and commitment to making our children feel safe provides our learners with some genuine life chances and choices. These approaches are combined with an ethos of collaborative and innovative teaching and provision delivery. Life at Ropemakers is busy, energetic and vibrant. There is a continuous push to ensure that staff are well supported and developed, and that an open and transparent culture exists to maximise the quality of our education. As we are only in our second year, we are still developing aspects of our provision, but this provides our staff an opportunity to help shape our work and be actively involved in setting out our future.

As a Special Needs teacher at the Ropemakers’ Academy, we will ask you to use your newly acquired skills in a flexible and adaptable way, across a range of subjects and age groups. The nature of our setting means that we are not structured like mainstream schools, and we have a mixture of secondary and primary trained staff. If you have trained around a specialist subject, we will use those skills to develop our strategic approach around that subject; if you have trained across a range of subjects, you will fit in equally as well. In return we can offer you the opportunity to set out and implement your vision for teaching, as well as developing many aspects of your special needs and leadership practice. We fully support working alongside our regional ECT support provider, but we also have a dedicated teacher development lead within our own Trust, and also have teaching staff in place who will provide strong development support as well.

You may not be entirely sure if working in a special school should be your first career step, and you may have some unanswered questions. Therefore, you are more than welcome and strongly encouraged to come and visit the school and meet the team, to enable you to see our school in action and find out more about this exciting and unique opportunity to take your career in a new direction.

For further inofrmation about the role, please see the attached Job Description.

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 The Ropemakers' Academy

• Organisation type: Free School, ages 4 to 16
• Size: 115 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: The Ropemakers' Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-ropemakers-academy

The Ropemakers school is set in a wonderful, expansive and picturesque site in the Sussex town of Hailsham. The name comes from the rich rope making history associated with the town, which originated in the early nineteenth century.

Hailsham itself is a market town set just north of Eastbourne and has good road links from the A22 and A27 and is a lovely area is, and we intend to make full use of our surroundings to enrich our curriculum offer.

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