Teacher

Riverside School, Orpington, Kent, BR5 3HS

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January & Spring 2027

• Closing date

  15 November 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  3 November 2026

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Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher or lecturer
  • Suitable for early career teachers (572)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Working pattern: Full time: 32.5 hours a week, Monday to Friday
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: MPS / UPS (Outer London weighting)
• Additional allowances:

  SEN 1 or 2, dependent on qualifications and experience.

What skills and experience we're looking for

Required January & Spring term 2027

We are delighted to be recruiting to the following position, which could be based at any of our four sites:

Class Teachers

MPS / UPS (Outer London weighting) plus 1 or 2 SEN points, dependent on qualifications and experience.

Closing date: 12.00pm, 15th November 2026; Interviews: Week beginning 16th November 2026.

Are you ready to play your part in transforming the lives of children with complex needs and the lives of their families? Do you have the passion, resilience and dedication to enable our pupils to find true fulfilment? If so, we’d love to hear from you. Riverside is a highly-regarded school for children with severe and complex learning difficulties, many of whom are on the autistic spectrum. We welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds and experiences, including Early Career Teachers and we have a strong track record of supporting teachers new to special education.

We are a forward-thinking and innovative all-age (3-19) special school with a diverse population: our 360 pupils are based on four sites, St Paul’s Cray, Beckenham, West Wickham and Phoenix (Bromley), in the London Borough of Bromley. Pupil, family and staff engagement is extremely important to us and we strive to involve the whole school community in making Riverside the most incredible place for our pupils to learn and our staff to work. We aim to provide the kind of specialist education and opportunities that our families want and our pupils deserve. We stand together to promote inclusion and celebrate diversity so that everyone in our school community feels a true sense of belonging.

Our core values are at the heart of everything we do:

Aspiration Resilience Creativity Humility Integrity Trust Enthusiasm Courage Teamwork

They make up the acronym ARCHITECT to signify our passion for designing and building a school that will make an indelible mark on the world for generations to come; a school that will impact positively on everyone who enters, on people we may never meet, and in ways we may never know. We see our pupils’ time at Riverside School as just the first part of their journey and we want them to leave us at the age of 19 as confident, lifelong learners. We also want them to remember their time with us with great affection, with memories of life-enriching experiences and enduring relationships.

If you are interested in more than one post currently being advertised, please indicate this on your application form and if you would like an informal discussion about this or any other post, please feel free to telephone Steve Solomons, Headteacher on 01689 870519. We are happy to facilitate school visits prior to shortlisting and we look forward to hearing from you.

What the school offers its staff

Continuous professional development

Wellbeing support

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Riverside School is committed to providing equality of opportunity and safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all staff to share this commitment.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Class Teacher - JD & PS.pdf - 65.6 KB (opens in new tab)

About Riverside School

• Organisation type: Special school, ages 3 to 19
• Size: 360 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Email address: Recruitment@riverside.bromley.sch.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/riverside-school-orpington

We are a forward-thinking and innovative all-age (3-19) special school with a diverse population: our 360 pupils are based on four sites, St Paul’s Cray, Beckenham, West Wickham and Phoenix (Bromley), in the London Borough of Bromley. Pupil, family and staff engagement is extremely important to us and we strive to involve the whole school community in making Riverside the most incredible place for our pupils to learn and our staff to work. We aim to provide the kind of specialist education and opportunities that our families want and our pupils deserve. We stand together to promote inclusion and celebrate diversity so that everyone in our school community feels a true sense of belonging.

Our core values are at the heart of everything we do:

Aspiration Resilience Creativity Humility Integrity Trust Enthusiasm Courage Teamwork

They make up the acronym ARCHITECT to signify our passion for designing and building a school that will make an indelible mark on the world for generations to come; a school that will impact positively on everyone who enters, on people we may never meet, and in ways we may never know.

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