Teacher

Courtlands School, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 5JS

11 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  13 October 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  16 September 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1
• Subject: Key Stage 1
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £30,000.00 - £41,333.00 Annually (FTE) SEN Allowance

Teacher job summary

Job Purpose

The main purpose of the role is to:

Promote and facilitate excellent progress and well-being of individual SEN pupils across the curriculum.

Contribute to an outstanding culture of community across the school.

Model the high standards of communication, interpersonal skills and peer relationships expected in every interaction with pupils, staff and families.

Be responsible for the excellent and success teaching, learning and achievement of all pupils in the class ensuring equality of opportunity for all including leading and arranging annual review meetings, risk assessment, EHCP monitoring.

Work proactively and effectively in collaboration and partnership with learners, parents/carers, governors, other staff and external agencies in the best interests of pupils.

Take responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children within the school.

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.

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About Courtlands School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• School size: 107 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Courtlands School website (opens in new tab)
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Courtlands Special School Academy is a friendly and ambitious academy in Plymouth which caters for primary aged children (4-11) with Moderate Learning Difficulties and Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs. Our innovative curriculum is based on meeting individual’s needs rather than schemes of work, and provides a wide range of curriculum and therapeutic input.

We are leaders in our field, having won numerous national awards for our work, and work in a Trauma Informed way to support our children to overcome their difficulties and make great progress in all areas of their development. We constantly strive for the best ways to support our children, and welcome innovation and new, evidence based ways of working.

You will need high levels of emotional resilience, and good coping strategies born out of successful experience of teaching and supporting children with complex needs including Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties such as ADHD and attachment disorders; Communication and Interaction needs such as ASC and Speech and Language Difficulties. This could be in either a special school or mainstream school, with mainstream experience being an advantage.

We can offer you a motivated and skilled staff team and a real opportunity to make a difference to the future of our wonderful children and school. We look after our staff with award winning care for their wellbeing (National Wellbeing in Schools Award 2019). You won’t be taking marking home to do in the evening, and you will be given the freedom to meet the needs of the pupils in your class, along with the resources to do it. You will receive training in a wide range of SEND and real time support and mentoring form a Leadership Team whose door is literally open all the time.

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