Teacher SEN
Blackfriars Academy, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, ST5 2TF17 days remaining to apply
Job start date
30 June 2025
Closing date
2 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
14 May 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term - FTC until 29.03.26 - Maternity or parental leave cover
Full-time equivalent salary
- M1 £31,650 – UPR3 £49,084 + SEN Allowance - Pay Award Pending
Pay scale
- M1 £31,650 – UPR3 £49,084 + SEN Allowance - Pay Award Pending
Additional allowances
SEN Allowance
What skills and experience we're looking for
Blackfriars Academy is seeking to appoint an exceptional Classroom Teacher to join one of our Complex Needs Classes. Our students have a diverse range of needs, including complex medical and physical conditions, autism, visual and hearing impairments, and severe learning difficulties.
We are looking for a passionate, committed professional to become part of our highly dedicated and experienced team, delivering an outstanding educational experience to our incredible students.
The ideal candidate will be driven by a belief in the potential of every student and have a proven ability to create engaging, high-quality lessons tailored to individual needs. Collaboration is central to our ethos, and we value the ability to work closely within a close-knit team of specialists.
While we welcome applicants with a broad range of experience, the essential requirement is experience working with students with complex special educational needs. If you are ready to inspire, support, and make a lasting impact, we would love to hear from you.
Blackfriars Academyis a very special place to be educated. We have a learning community of approximately 120 students aged between 11-19 and over 90 staff all working towards the goal of supporting students with profound and complex, or moderate or severe learning needs and profound and complex needs to reach their potential. We are special because we provide an outstanding educational experience for a vast range of needs in a supportive and caring atmosphere where students blossom in our inclusive environment.
Shaw Education Trust are a thriving mix of diverse and growing schools including Primary, Secondary and Special Schools all working together to improve the lives of young people in our communities. We are sponsored by Shaw Trust a charity organisation that focuses on transforming lives. We’re a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life.
Our Special settings cater for children and young people with a wide range of Special Educational Needs from children with profound medical needs and life limiting conditions, those with severe, moderate and sensory needs through to young people with social emotional and mental health needs that require support and understanding to help them to navigate their world.
Whether you are a teacher, a teaching assistant, a healthcare professional or work in facilities, admin or operations all our Special Schools offer you the opportunity to work within an establishment that has a ‘family’ feel that puts the children, young people and their families at the heart of what they do.
All the pupils within our Special Schools have an individualised education and are educated in small classes and groups with enhanced support to ensure that all their needs are met. There is nothing more rewarding than being part of a team that supports a child or young person with Special Educational Needs to reach their goals. You truly will make a difference to the life of a young person and their family.
What the school offers its staff
Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
- Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
- Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
- Free Eye Tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.
Colleagues within the Trust benefit from: Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include all of the National Professional Qualifications – NPQH, NPQSL, NPQEYL, NPQLL, NPQLT, NPQLTD, NPQLBC are all delivered by the Shaw Education Trust as a delivery partner for Ambition Institute. In addition, we provide access to the NPQEL for Executive Leaders.
- Experienced leadership and subject-specific support.
- Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
- Access to the Trust’s Institute of Education and SCITT.
- Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
- Participating in peer reviews.
- Access to a suite of online courses.
- Placement projects within our family of schools.
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
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Blackfriars Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- School size
- 118 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Blackfriars Academy website
- Email address
- natalie.turner@shaw-education.org.uk
At the outstanding rated Blackfriars Academy we are committed to providing an exceptional educational experience for children with a wide range of special educational needs aged 10 to 16. Ours is a welcoming school where each student is supported to develop a positive sense of self-worth and discover all that they can achieve.
Our committed staff team is what makes us exceptional. We expect them to continually build on their expertise and experience so they can offer the best possible opportunities to students in their care.
The broad and balanced curriculum we offer allows students to follow the National Curriculum, as well as working towards a range of externally accredited schemes tailored to their individual needs. We work with students to nurture their skills in vocational and leisure activities so they can build their capacity and capability to live and work as adults within our society.
As a school judged to be outstanding, we are also able to lead a Teaching School Alliance. This allows us to share the skills and expertise of our school with mainstream schools and Higher Education institutes and others in the local community to help create an increasingly inclusive society.
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