Specialist Teacher - Exam Access Arrangements

Lord Williams's School, Thame, Oxfordshire, OX9 2AQ

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2026

• Closing date

  20 October 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  10 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £32,918.00 - £51,048.00 Annually (FTE) Teachers' Main/Upper Pay Scale, pro-rated 0.5 = £16,459 to £25,524

Specialist Teacher - Exam Access Arrangements job summary

The Learning Support Faculty

Lord Williams’s School has a very strong commitment to providing the best possible education to all students whatever their particular aptitudes, needs and circumstances. For students with special educational needs this is achieved, so far as is possible, by inclusion within mainstream classes and by the involvement of all staff. The range of needs supported is very wide and includes Cognition and Learning; Physical and Sensory; Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) and Communication and Interaction.

The Learning Support Faculty at Lower has its own newly-renovated building. It is well equipped for a variety of activities/interventions including three hubs: the Learning Hub, the Rainbow room and the 1B.

At Upper School there is a similar suite of rooms in a specially adapted building.

The Learning Support Faculty aims to enable all students to participate fully in the life of the school and has three key areas of activity.

Curriculum Support

Being aware of the key features of the curriculum

Helping staff to develop a differentiated curriculum

Advising staff about any changes needed to ensure access to the curriculum for all students

Mainstream Support

Developing strategies to support students with a range of specific needs, and seeking ways of ensuring the achievements of all students are recognised

Working in collaboration with curriculum teachers to help students make progress

Supporting and observing students in their mainstream lessons

Individual Support

Identifying and assessing students’ needs, and tracking their progress

Working with individuals to improve their literacy skills, social skills and relationships using a variety of skills and resources

Working in close co-operation with pastoral staff, parents and outside professionals/agencies to develop strategies to support under-achievement

The Learning Support Faculty has strong links to the Communication and Interaction [Autism] Resource Bases and we have arrangements that allow students to move between the Bases and mainstream classes.

The Learning Support Faculty has also received a certification from ASDAN recognising Lord Williams’s as a ‘Centre of Excellence’ and recently received very positive feedback from an independent review.

Safeguarding

Lord Williams’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

All successful candidates will be subject to enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.

Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory medical, reference and DBS clearance and also to The Asylum and Immigration Act ID checks.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013, 2020 and 2023). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974

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

Lord Williams’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant 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 Lord Williams's School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 2290 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lord Williams's School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lord-williams-s-school

Lord Williams’s School is a thriving and popular comprehensive school serving the Thame community and its surrounding rural area. We are a split-site school, with Years 7 – 9 on the Lower School site at Towersey Road and Years 10 – 13 on the Upper School site at Oxford Road. We pay particular attention to each individual student by promoting their personal, social and educational development to enable all to achieve at the highest level possible. As a result of our continuing success, Lord Williams’s School is consistently oversubscribed.

We promote high quality teaching and learning. We attract talented, committed and conscientious teachers who produce stimulating and challenging learning activities helped by experienced support staff. Teamwork is a key feature of our work.

We are an inclusive school; we cater for all abilities and we provide access for all students. This is reflected in our work with the more able, with students with a range of learning and other difficulties and in our admissions policy for the Sixth Form.

The school has excellent teaching facilities on both sites with accommodation that is suited to the demands of the curriculum.

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