Teacher
Mount Tamar School, Plymouth, Devon, PL5 2EF12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP - pending pre-employment checks
Closing date
1 December 2025 at 10:59pm
Date listed
19 November 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPR
Additional allowances
MPR
Teacher job summary
Mount Tamar is a specialist special school within the Transforming Futures Trust, serving pupils with diverse complex needs. We are committed to providing a safe, nurturing environment where every student can thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. Our ethos places safeguarding at the heart of all we do.
Mount Tamar has a friendly and welcoming atmosphere, with about 110 pupils on roll from many different Local Authorities in the South West.
The school caters for young people aged 4 to 16 years who, for a variety of reasons, find it difficult to be successful within mainstream schools as full-time pupils. We specialise in supporting students with social and emotional difficulties, attachment and autism.
We are a friendly and caring community that firmly believes in treating each young person as an individual and providing them with the skills and tools they need to be a success. Mount Tamar School offers a quality-learning environment with all students being supported by a team of experienced trained staff dedicated to sustaining a school, where excellent teaching enables students to develop their abilities to the full.
About the role
Job Title: Teacher
Salary Range: MPR
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Monday 1st December 2025
Shortlisting Date: Tuesday 2nd December 2025
Full day interview to include tasks: Friday 5th December 2025
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 successful 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.
Please see attached Candidate pack for more details
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Mount Tamar School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 16
- School size
- 108 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
School location
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