Teacher of English
Snowfields Academy, Maidstone, Kent, ME14 5GA2 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
16 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
14 May 2025
Job details
Job role
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
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time: Full Time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS commensurate with experience + SEN1 (£2,675)
Additional allowances
SEN1 (£2,675)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Please be aware that this role is based at the Bearsted College
Are you a dynamic English Teacher ready to empower exceptional learners through the magic of language and literature?Snowfields Academy, anOutstandingspecialist SEN setting, offers an exciting opportunity to join our passionate team! Here, you'll have the chance to unlock potential and encourage a strong foundation for communication, creativity, and lifelong learning in students with diverse needs.
At Snowfields Academy, we're dedicated to a holistic approach, understanding the vital link between strong literacy skills and academic success for our amazing students. You'll design and deliver engaging, inclusive English experiences that celebrate progress and foster a love of reading, writing, and discussion in a highly supportive environment. Your creativity in adapting texts and activities, and your belief in every student's ability will truly shine here.
What the school offers its staff
Why Make Your Mark at Snowfields Academy?
- Be Part of Excellence:Join a school officially recognized asOutstanding, where high standards and a nurturing ethos go hand-in-hand for our incredible SEN students.
- Directly Impact Lives:Use your English expertise to boost students' confidence, communication skills, self-expression, and overall engagement in learning.
- Innovate and Adapt:Bring your creative flair to develop English lessons that are both challenging and accessible to a wide range of abilities.
- Thrive in a Supportive Community:Collaborate with a dedicated team that values your contributions and prioritizes both student and staff well-being.
- Champion Holistic Growth:Contribute to a school that understands the crucial role of strong literacy skills in the overall development of our students.
Experience the profound satisfaction of seeing your students achieve and grow. Be part of a supportive and forward-thinking team that values your expertise. Access opportunities for professional growth within a specialist setting. Shape the literary futures of truly remarkable young people.
Apply now to become our English Teacher at Snowfields Academy!
Please be aware that it isnotrequired for candidates to hold a specific SEN qualification in order to be considered for this role.
Further details about the role
Snowfields Academy opened in September 2020 in Bearsted as a new secondary provision for students with ASD. In September 2022 will opened an additional Campus at Cranbrook. When full we will offer 240 places across year groups 7-13 for young people who are working at or close to age-related expectations. Class sizes are small with 12/13 in each class, supported by 2-3 teaching assistants according to need. We offer a range of GCSEs and other qualifications for young people on a blend of academic and vocational pathways.
The academy benefits from being a brand new school with a design tailored to the students it provides for, carefully considered to make the most of both its inside and outside environments in order to enhance the learning of its students. The environment supports specialisms in horticulture and catering at Bearsted with a Cafe and Teaching kitchen and horticulture facilities at Bearsted and a working farm at Cranbrook. We will work closely with local businesses to offer an outstanding range of work experience opportunities and supported internships.
At Snowfields Academy we:
- Inspire and engage our children so they develop a lifelong love of learning, working towards the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme at Key Stage 3
- Deliver a quality, inclusive education so all children are able to achieve to their full potential
- Create a learning environment where barriers to learning are overcome and students feel safe and happy and are ready to learn
- Ensure that all children feel valued and celebrate their individuality and success at every opportunity
- Always work within a multi-disciplinary framework alongside families and other professionals
- Use personalised approaches to manage behaviour and reduce anxieties
- Ensure safeguarding, pastoral support and embedding British Values are at the heart of all we do
- Create a culture where staff work collaboratively as part of the wider team, sharing ideas and good practice and offering support to each other.
Snowfields Academy Student & Staff Charter:
- Work Hard
- Be Kind
- Communicate
- Stay Safe
- Be Happy
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 are not accepted.
Additional documents
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About Snowfields Academy
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- School size
- 232 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Snowfields Academy website
- Email address
- joinus@latrust.org.uk
Arranging a visit to Snowfields Academy
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