Specialist Unit Teacher
Beccles High School, Beccles, Suffolk, NR34 7BQ5 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
19 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
9 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term - 1 year
Pay scale
- MPS Minimum - UPS Maximum
What skills and experience we're looking for
Proven, recent, successful classroom practice that motivates, challenges and develops learners with SEND and includes excellent knowledge of how to build and sustain a learning community.
Working productively with learners, families and the wider community.
Proven experience in leading and delivering personalised curriculum provision for SEND learners
Proven, recent, successful delivery and coordination of qualification pathways for SEND learners including Entry Level to GCSE Maths, English, ASDAN CoPE or others
Using successful systems to monitor and evaluate student performance; ensuring excellent outcomes for all.
Experience of working within a SEND specialist Primary and/or Secondary setting.
Experience of working with external agencies.
Understanding the importance of undertaking CPD to develop your skills and knowledge.
Demonstrate personal and professional integrity and an ability to model the values and vision of the school.
Excellent communication skills with a range of audiences.
Emotional resilience in working through challenges.
Ability to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children.
Demonstrate personal enthusiasm for and commitment to the learning process including a capacity for sustained hard work with energy and enthusiasm.
Be able to receive effective feedback and act to improve personal performance.
Excellent skills of collaboration for the benefit of pupils.
Passionate about education and educational issues.
Ability and energy to inspire the best in learners.
Exceptional personal integrity and character.
Evidence of commitment to continuous professional development.
Personal confidence, determination and resilience.
Displays sensitivity.
Sense of humour and approachability.
Both a team player and a leader.
Displays emotional resilience.
What the school offers its staff
Good Local Government Pension Scheme
Health Hero Employee Assistance Programme
Pluxee High Street Benefits package as well as ability to sign up for Teacher Discounts and Blue Light Card
Free Onsite Parking
Further details about the role
THE POST
Provide high quality adaptive learning provision under the direction of the Specialist Unit Lead Teacher that constructively evaluates and drives forward our high standards, ensuring student progress across all aspects of Specialist Unit provision and access to main school curriculum for learners within the Specialist Unit.
Support and display an ethos of high expectation and aspiration in which staff set and model challenge and expectation through teaching and interaction with pupils and families.
Carry out all required activities as directed to ensure the planning, delivery and assessment of effective provision within the Communication and Interaction Specialist Unit.
Contribute to the delivery of an accessible, broad and balanced curriculum to all Specialist Unit learners.
Contribute to the effective coordination, delivery and impact review of specific EHCP provision (Section F) as stipulated in individual Education Health and Care Plans.
Deliver the content of and contribute to the review of Support Plans for Specialist Unit Learners.
Contribute to the tracking of performance data to monitor progress, challenge staff and engage pupils & families.
Liaise with and support the role of external agencies to ensure that provision for Specialist Unit learners is of the highest quality.
Liaise regularly with families, carers, learners, Subject Teachers and other Specialist Unit Lead Teacher to encourage and support access to main school learning for Specialist Unit learners
Monitor and reflect on the impact of High-Quality Adaptive Teaching and provision on learners’ behaviours for learning and make adaptations where required within your teaching.
Work closely with families and carers to ensure behaviour expectations are well understood and adhered.
Support effective transition to/from Beccles High School including completing visits to current schools and communication with relevant stakeholders including transition school staff, families, and external agencies.
Undertake the SU professional development programme to ensure you have the skills and knowledge needed to meet both whole cohort and individual needs.
Ensure that Beccles High School reflects a vibrant and inclusive ethos which actively values and promotes diversity, unity, and community cohesion, and supports pupils to become successful integrated citizens.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, therefore all applicants must be prepared to undergo a number of checks to confirm their suitability to work with children and young people. The Trust welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. In accordance with the Department of Education’s “Keeping Children Safe in Education”, references will be sought on all short-listed candidates before interview.
Applying for the job
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CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
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About Beccles High School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 288 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Beccles High School website
- Email address
- HR@setrust.co.uk
At Beccles, we believe that each and every student deserves to go to an excellent school. Our focus is on delivering high-quality, engaging lessons and providing students with the care and guidance that allows them to succeed. Our students tell us that they value the way lessons are delivered and the strong relationships that exist in school between students and staff. This is only possible because of our small size and our belief and confidence in every student as an individual.
We offer a traditional curriculum that enables our students to flourish academically, and which lays the foundations for their successful progression into post-16 learning. We are preparing our young people to be thoughtful, innovative, capable, responsible global citizens of the future; they will leave us with excellent qualifications and having outperformed their counterparts nationally.
Our vision is shared by all staff, and together we are responsible for upholding and promoting the values within it. Staff are supported at all levels by middle and senior leaders in their teaching, behaviour management, career development and wellbeing.
Arranging a visit to Beccles High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email HR@setrust.co.uk.
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