SEN Teacher

SEN Teacher

Poppy Field School, Widnes, WA8 6DH

Contract type: Full Time

Salary: M1 – M6 Plus SEN Allowance (Dependent upon suitability and experience)

Contract term: Permanent

Suitable for ECTs: Yes

Closing date: Friday 28th June 2024

SEN Teacher

Poppy Field School is a growing special school located in Widnes offering the highest quality of education for up to 32 children (4-19) with a range of additional needs.

We are looking to recruit a SEN Teacher who will join us on this exciting journey, enabling the school to grow and evolve. We are seeking a SEN Teacher who ‘just gets’ children, has a marvellous sense of humour and who has the flexibility and determination to ensure that Poppy Field is the first choice of school for children, parents and local authorities.

Our aim is to provide innovative and enjoyable education, therapy and early intervention for pupils, sometimes (and only where appropriate) enabling them to successfully return to mainstream schooling, but always helping them to become happy, positive and valuable members of society.

Poppy Field School enables pupils to access a curriculum that offers a personalised education rooted in social and emotional development, rich in speech and language, enabling the very best achievement both personally and academically.

Key aspects of this role include:

-         Planning & delivering engaging lessons according to pupils’ educational needs

-         Using behaviour management strategies in line with Poppy Field policy and procedures, which contribute to a purposeful learning environment for pupils appropriate to their age and special needs

-         Maintaining discipline in accordance with the rules and disciplinary systems of the school

-         Creating and maintaining a purposeful, orderly and supportive learning environment for all pupils, particularly helping to overcome barriers to learning

-         Observing, monitoring and evaluating pupil responses to learning activities through a range of assessment and monitoring strategies determined by the head teacher

-         Adopting a flexible approach to meet the varied needs of the pupils in the classroom and participating in any physical activities as appropriate

-         Contributing to meetings, discussions and management systems necessary to co-ordinate the work of the school as a whole

-         Promoting the inclusion of all pupils, ensuring they have equal opportunities to learn and develop and seek to ensure the implementation of the school’s equal opportunities policy

-         Be responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and staff within the school

We are looking for a Teacher who:

-         Shows empathy and patience for children who exhibit challenging behaviour

-         Has a natural ability to solve problems and manage/modify the behaviour of children

-         Is organised, flexible, resilient, physically fit and un-shockable

-         Displays a good, down to earth, sense of humour

Lavender Field can offer you:

-         Wonderful, thriving pupils

-         A happy, humorous and supportive staff team

-         Excellent career progression opportunities

-         The National Teachers’ Pension

-         A high level of support from a very experienced team of Teaching Assistants

-         Initial training for aspects of the role with which you are not familiar with

-         The opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of pupils and their families

-         A comprehensive on-going training package

We do not require an experienced SEN Teacher, as comprehensive training will be provided and the level of support provided will enable the post holder to develop very quickly. Thus, we welcome applications from Teachers from Mainstream or Special, Secondary School settings, who are looking for something different. The recruitment process is about finding the right personality with huge amounts of potential, who will be as excited as we are about developing and expanding our group of schools

Poppy Field School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with current and past employers, declaration of convictions, online searches and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

We are an equal opportunities employer.