Teacher
Kemball School, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST3 3JD7 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
13 May 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
12 April 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1 to U3
Additional allowances
SEN1 allowance of £2,539
What skills and experience we're looking for
This vacancy is within the functional pathway. If you are creative, enthusiastic, love a new challenge, and are passionate about every child reaching their full potential then this may be the career opportunity that you have been looking for.
Across all pathways, our curriculum offer includes daily Maths, English, Read Write Inc phonics/spelling interventions and writing/reading interventions however within the functional pathway emphasis is also placed on preparing our students for life beyond Kemball which includes achieving Duke of Edinburgh award scheme, travel training, ASDAN qualifications, careers, work experience and the development of general life skills. We have an excellent in house CPD offer that can support you in transitioning into the role of a special school teacher
What the school offers its staff
At Orchard Community Trust, we work closely together to ensure that our schools feel supported to help them develop and improve. Through discussion and shared planning, together with bespoke visits, we strive for the very best outcomes across all our schools.
We are very aspirational and ambitious for our schools and are fully committed to ensuring the best education for all our pupils. Our headteachers work closely together as a group to support and challenge each other and they are passionate about their own schools and individual contexts, as well as supporting the Trust community as a whole.
As a Trust, we believe in working collaboratively to share ideas and effective practice, whilst ensuring each of our schools retains its commitment to its own community and surroundings. In this way, our schools can ensure that the curriculum, wider opportunities and experiences engage and motivate all our pupils and are relevant to their individual needs.
Our Trust consists of five primary schools and two special schools. The successful applicant will join a close knit and collaborative team and is expected to contribute to the wider group of schools. This is an excellent and very exciting opportunity to join a growing Trust and be able to help to shape the future of both Etruscan Primary School and Orchard Community Trust overall.
About Orchard Community Trust.
Our Moral Purpose, Vision and Values
Orchard Community Trust is fully committed to improving the life chances of all children, wherever they may be. This moral obligation, our mission, does not end at the school gates, within our own Local Authorities, or even within our own country. Where we have the capacity to make a difference, we are morally bound to do so.
Our vision and mission are to have fully inclusive schools working in our Trust, that fully embrace all stakeholders, and which celebrate individuality and success by offering a high-quality education and range of opportunities, where everyone makes excellent progress.
Our moral purpose and our focus and determination are centred on the following:
TRUST
RESPECT
FUN
LEARNING
OPENNESS
EXCITEMENT
DIVERSITY
COOPERATION
INTEGRITY
RELIABILITY
REPUTATION
ACHIEVEMENT
Within our Trust:
We aim to set high standards for personal behaviour and self-regulation, and to promote courtesy, cooperation, consideration and respect for other people of all ages, gender, races, cultures, abilities and backgrounds.
We aspire to deliver exciting and quality learning experiences in safe, secure and happy environments.
We endeavour to achieve the very highest standards in every aspect of school life, by making the most efficient use of all the resources available.
We seek to prepare each child to face life beyond the school with the confidence, skills and ability to be resilient, to cope and thus to succeed.
Commitment to safeguarding
In line with the Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance which outlines that schools should carry out online searches on shortlisted candidates. I can confirm that the online check will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates only as part of the process of assessing your suitability to work with children.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to kemball@kemballschool.co.uk
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Kemball School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 19
- School size
- 220 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Kemball School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- kemball@kemballschool.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01782 883120
Kemball School, part of the Orchard Community Trust and is a day special school for pupils with cognitive and learning difficulties. There are currently 218 pupils on roll aged 3-19. Dependent on need, pupils are educated in one of our four bespoke pathways. Please refer to our website for more information.
Applications from ECT candidates with relevant special school experience are welcome.
Visits are advisable, during the school day, so that candidates are aware of the complexity of the pupils needs. Please phone to make an appointment.
• Non-contact time of 1 day per fortnight
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to deliver a lesson. Lesson observations and interviews will be w/c 20 May 2024
Closing date is 13 May 2024 by 12pm
Observations and interviews to be held w/c 20 May 2024
The school is committed to equality of opportunity.
More information about our school and details of how to apply are on our website: https://kemballschool.org.uk/vacancies/
In line with the Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance which outlines that schools should carry out online searches on shortlisted candidates. I can confirm that the online check will be carried out on all shortlisted candidates only as part of the process of assessing your suitability to work with children.
Arranging a visit to Kemball School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email kemball@kemballschool.co.uk.
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