Specialist Community Teacher

River Tees Hospital School, Middlesbrough, TS3 7EA

26 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  TBC

• Closing date

  30 September 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  4 September 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: £35,092.00 - £48,349.00 Annually (FTE)

Specialist Community Teacher job summary

Teaching takes place within a range of community settings including pupils' homes, community venues, health settings and other agreed educational locations on a 1:1 basis. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in supporting pupils to re-engage with learning, improve their wellbeing and successfully transition into appropriate educational pathways.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, the Specialist Community Teacher will develop bespoke educational programmes that remove barriers to learning whilst promoting aspiration, resilience and positive outcomes.

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

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

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 River Tees Hospital School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 5 to 18
• Size: 9 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: River Tees Hospital School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/river-tees-middle-academy

River Tees Hospital School is an integral part of the River Tees Multi-Academy Trust Family, where learning and wellbeing is at the centre of everything that we do. We work with the most vulnerable children, who have a complex range of physical and/or mental health difficulties, helping them to re-set their learning journey to achieve better outcomes and to improve their life chances in the short and longer term. It is recognised that each learner requires a unique setting and bespoke support programme to help them back into either mainstream education or a specialised educational pathway.

River Tees Hospital School creates an inclusive environment where staff strive to ensure all learners make accelerated academic progress whilst equally focusing on their personal development and wellbeing. We provide a range of specialist assessments, which allow us to develop an integrated plan that will work in harmony with the academic and emotional wellbeing strands.

River Tees Hospital School gives every learner the chance to be the best that they can be. This is achieved through the removal of barriers to learning, and the delivery of personalised educational programmes which lead to valuable and valid qualifications.

River Tees Hospital School is dedicated to providing high quality education through an innovative structure, so that vulnerable students have access to advanced and energising programmes of learning. We value the professional relationships between staff and learners, but equally ensure strong collaborative partnership work with parents, carers, trustees, external providers and the wider community, to ensure learners achieve their potential.

All learners are supported to develop lively and enquiring minds, whilst ensuring that they feel safe and valued in an inclusive environment. The ethos of inclusion is central to all of the work of our Trust and we strive to help our young people to achieve their aims and ambitions.

Adam Burns
Head of Hospital School

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