Teachers and Seniors Leaders

Diverse Academies Trust, Retford, DN22 7EA

26 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  24 April 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  20 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Assistant headteacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• 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: Permanent
• Pay scale: MPS/UPS. Leadership Scale
• Additional allowances:

  SEN Allowance

What skills and experience we're looking for

Specific roles and responsibilities:  

• Teachers of SEND for primary and secondary aged children - MPS/UPS/SEND allowance offered

• Assistant Principal for Quality of Education

• Assistant Principal for Behaviour and Attitudes and Personal Development

The successful candidates will:  

• Have working knowledge of working with students with SEMH and Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC).

• Want to be part of our founding team and support the set-up and opening of our new academy.

• Be an excellent teacher and a committed team player.

• Have a proven track record of success

• Have the resolve to make a real difference to the lives of children

• Be able to communicate effectively with parents and other professionals

• Work directly with young people and their families, building relationships and working together to ensure that our community is a safe and well supported.   

• Work within and beyond the school gates with families to access services that will help them to have full access to the extended school opportunities offered.  

What the school offers its staff

Our employee benefits  

At Diverse Academies, you’ll find yourself in a vibrant, inclusive and supportive environment, where everyone can grow, progress and achieve a fulfilling career. We offer a fantastic range of rewards and benefits, challenging and interesting work, and opportunities to achieve your potential.  

In return you will benefit from:             

• Enrolment into the Teacher Pension Scheme with an employer contribution of at least 23.68%   

• Excellent Continuous Professional Development (CPD) opportunities covering technical, leadership and coaching skills via the trust’s Diverse Association for Professional Learning  

• Employee Assistance Programme   

• GP helpline   

• Health and wellbeing advice and support   

• Eyecare vouchers   

• Salary sacrifice schemes – electric car scheme, cycle to work, home and electronics  

• Lifestyle savings - discounts and offers on gym memberships, holidays, days out, shopping, restaurants, etc   

• Health cash plan (personal or family) – where you pay monthly and can claim money back on private treatments such as dental, optical and therapies (e.g. physiotherapy, osteopathy etc)   

• Childcare – breakfast and after school provision   

• Take a look at our rewards and benefits online  

Commitment to safeguarding

Safeguarding and child protection is of the highest priority to our Trust – and it is everyone’s responsibility to ensure the safety and welfare of all our children and young people.

We have a dedicated strategic lead who works with designated safeguarding leads (DSLs) in all academies to work with leadership teams, governors and trustees to quality assure, advise and develop the highest standards of culture and compliance across our academies and throughout the organisation.

https://www.diverseacademies.org.uk/about-us/how-we-work/safeguarding-and-child-protection/

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

SEN Teacher - Job Description and Person Specification (5) (1) (1).docx - 141 KB (opens in new tab)

Be part of our team - Diverse Academies Trust (1).pdf - 2.44 MB (opens in new tab)

Assistant Principal - Job Description and Person Specification_ (1).docx - 145 KB (opens in new tab)

About Diverse Academies Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Diverse Academies Trust website
• Email address: office@horizons-ac.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/diverse-academies-trust

Founded in September 2011, Diverse Academies is a multi-academy trust consisting of 14 academies – six secondary, six primary and two special – across Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.

We have a shared sixth form centre facility in Hucknall, which is managed in partnership with the National Church of England Academy. Queen Elizabeth’s in Mansfield, is a faith academy under the Church of England and is rooted in a Christian ethos. The academy works in partnership with the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham to provide an education that is distinctively Christian, and is inclusive for students from all backgrounds, of the Christian faith, other faiths and no faith.

The Trust Board provides overall support and challenge to academies through the leadership and management and governance structures within the Diverse Academies.

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