Teacher
Fiveways Special School, Yeovil, Somerset, BA21 5AZ20 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Spring Term 2027
Closing date
15 October 2026 at 3pm
Date listed
25 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher or lecturer
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Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share): 32.43 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS experience
Additional allowances
1 SEN Point
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for an innovative and enthusiastic teacher to complement our very committed and highly supportive, resilient and reflective teaching team.
Main Duties, Professional Attributes and Skills, Knowledge and Understanding
The postholder will:
- Have a good, up-to-date working knowledge and understanding of a range of teaching and learning styles, and behaviour management strategies and know how to use and adapt them, including how to personalise learning.
- Provide engaging and motivating learning opportunities for all pupils and students, informed by well-grounded expectations of learners, and designed to enable them to achieve their potential and raise levels of attainment.
- Know a range of approaches to assessment, including the assessment, recording and reporting requirements and arrangements for the curriculum they teach, including the importance of formative assessment.
- Maintain an up-to-date knowledge and understanding of the professional duties of teachers and the statutory framework within which they work, and contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of the policies and practice of their workplace, including those designed to promote equality of opportunity.
- Communicate effectively with pupils and students, colleagues, parents and carers, and other professionals.
- Have a commitment to co-operative working as a team member, and identify opportunities for collaborating with colleagues, as well as, where appropriate, managing their work and sharing the development of effective practice with them.
What the school offers its staff
Further information about the job
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Fiveways Special School
- Organisation type
- Special school, ages 4 to 19
- Size
- 100 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- zmccoy@fiveways.school
- Phone number
- 01935476227
Arranging a visit to Fiveways Special School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email zmccoy@fiveways.school.
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