Vision Resource Base Leader
Sunnyside Academy, Middlesbrough, TS8 0RJDeadline is tomorrow
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
22 November 2024 at 9am
Date listed
1 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Applications are warmly welcomed from candidates who would wish to work on a part-time basis.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £30,000 - £46,525 plus SEN Allowance 2 £5,009 and TLR2C Allowance of £3,214 (pay award pending)
Pay scale
- M1 - UPS3 + SEN Allowance 2 + TLR2C
Additional allowances
SEN Allowance 2 £5,009 and TLR2C £3,214 (pay award pending).
What skills and experience we're looking for
Sunnyside Academy is part of Ad Astra Academy Trust. Following the ‘Good’ Ofsted judgement, in November 2023, the school continues to further develop it’s excellent inclusive provision.
The school is seeking to appoint an experienced, talented and dynamic teacher to lead our Vision Resource Base. They will work alongside the Assistant Head Teacher to develop the provision to ensure the pupils receive bespoke pastoral and academic support which meets their needs and allows them to reach their full potential.
We are seeking to appoint a passionate, Qualified Teacher of the VI or a QTVI in current training, to join our dedicated, caring team, and who, in turn, will benefit from access to a wide range of professional opportunities as an employee of Ad Astra Academy Trust.
Applicants are asked to demonstrate their skills and experience that they will bring to the post and how they will meet the requirements of the Person Specification.
What the school offers its staff
The successful applicant will:
- Assist the Academy Leadership Team in ensuring continued success by providing vision and leadership for the Vision Impairment Provision.
- Have substantial experience of working directly with children with vision loss.
- Have knowledge and an understanding of the National Curriculum and the SEND Code of Practice and the implications for children with complex additional needs.
- Demonstrate outstanding teaching skills.
- Embrace and continue to uphold the caring, nurturing ethos of the school.
- Demonstrate real enthusiasm and commitment towards raising standards within a diverse school community.
- Be able to contribute to creative curriculum development.
- Demonstrate excellent behaviour management and communication skills.
- Have opportunity to further develop their skills through a variety of professional development opportunities within an inclusive and supportive environment.
The successful candidate will lead and teach in the designated Vision Resource Base, teaching pupils with SEN which will require the exercise of a teacher’s professional skills and judgement in the teaching of children with SEN, along with either holding or studying the Mandatory SEN Qualification – specialist teachers of pupils with vision impairment, and for this a SEN Allowance 2 will be payable. In addition, a TLR2C Allowance will be payable for the leadership aspects of this role.
Applications are warmly welcomed from candidates who would wish to work on a part-time basis.
Flexible working opportunities
Applications are warmly welcomed from candidates who would wish to work on a part-time basis.
Further details about the role
For an informal discussion about this position please contact Julie Sutton, Headteacher on 01642 596422 or via julie.sutton@sunnyside.adastraschools.org
Requesting an application form
Application forms and further details are available via the Ad Astra website site:
http://www.adastraacademytrust.com/careers/
Completed application forms to be emailed to recruitment@adastraacademytrust.com
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@adastraacademytrust.com
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Sunnyside Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 285 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Sunnyside Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- julie.sutton@sunnyside.adastraschools.org
- Phone number
- 01642 596422
Arranging a visit to Sunnyside Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email julie.sutton@sunnyside.adastraschools.org.
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