Teacher of Special Needs Pupils

Finch Woods Academy, Liverpool, Merseyside, L26 0TY

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Immediate Start

• Closing date

  30 September 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  13 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher or lecturer
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £32,916.00 Annually (FTE) MPS/UPS + SEN 1 Allowance. Salary shown is based on current teachers' pay scales and will be updated in line with any nationally agreed September 2026 pay award.

Teacher of Special Needs Pupils job summary

About This Role

The Governors of Finch Woods Academy are seeking to appoint a Middle School Class Teacher.

The ideal candidate will have experience of working with children and young people with complex needs, including Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and a proven ability to adapt teaching and learning to meet a diverse range of communication, sensory, social, emotional, and learning needs.

About us:

Finch Woods Academy is a rapidly improving, innovative, forward-thinking specialist provision for male and female pupils from Year 5 through to Year 12. All of our pupils have EHCPs for Social, Emotional and Mental Health and other complex needs. Our most recent Ofsted inspection judged that we are operating at expected level for 5 of the inspected categories and strong in the category of Leadership and Governance. Finch Woods Academy is a part of Manor Hall Academy Trust, a specialist Trust of 16 academies, providing high levels of support, training and specialist teamwork across all schools.

Finch Woods Academy adopt a ‘stage not age’ approach to the curriculum and this post will require the successful candidate to teach all subjects for a Year 7 class. The pupils within this class may be working well below age-related expectations. The successful candidate will liaise with the Middle Phase leader, and support other teachers and assistants who might be delivering aspects of the curriculum, providing advice, support and training wherever it is needed.

This is an exceptional opportunity for an ambitious, confident teacher who wishes to join a dedicated, committed team in a time of real growth and development for Finch Woods Academy.

Please read the job and person specifications for the job and if you feel you have the skills and attributes we are looking for, please call us on the school number on this advertisement to arrange to visit. This is an essential part of the recruitment process as we are keen to ensure that colleagues shortlisted for interview have valuable first-hand knowledge about our school and what it is we do.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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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.

About Finch Woods Academy

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 9 to 16
• Size: 88 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 9 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Finch Woods Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/finch-woods-academy

Finch Woods Academy is a co-educational specialist school for pupils with EHCPs primarily for social, emotional and mental health difficulties, many of whom who also have additional complex needs. We cater for pupils from Y4 through to Y11.

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