Nurture Teacher

KS3 Teacher – Nurture programme

Location: Effingham, Surrey

Contract: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £33,075 - £50,471 per year (M1 - UPS3 Fringe) Plus £5,000 Welcome bonus For Qualified Teacher*

Hours: 40 hours per week - Term Time only - Start time 8.15am - Finish time Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday 4.45pm. Thursday 5pm and Friday 4pm  

Aurora Poppyfield School

We’re looking to recruit a KS3 Teacher to run our nurture programme within our team at Poppyfield School. The successful candidate will be delivering high quality teaching and learning to our students, they are aged between 11 – 16 with ASD and other complex or anxiety related needs who may present with challenging behaviours associated with their diagnosis. Some pupils may have multiple learning difficulties.

Poppyfield is part of the Aurora group, they share their Principal with Redehall school.

To see more about the work that Poppyfield does please follow this link - https://youtu.be/crpoGrYVnDU

What’s in it for you? / Why Should You Apply? 

• You want to make a difference in the lives of our students and their families.
• You want to contribute to our broad and creative curriculum offer.
• You want to work with an inspiring student population.
• You enjoy working as part of a collaborative and committed multi-disciplinary team.
• You have a strong commitment to student and staff well-being and want to work in an organisation with the same strong values.
• You want to work within an organisation that support, develops and invests in their staff.

Key Duties:

You will be accountable to the school leadership teams to provide the following roles and responsibilities.

• To contribute to the delivery and development of the curriculum, having regard to the educational, physical and social needs of the students within a learning environment.
• To work collaboratively with other members of staff as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• To maintain and use short, medium and long term plans in delivering the curriculum.
• To set, monitor and review personalised targets that will optimise learning for each individual.
• To monitor, assess, review and report on the progress and work of students to parents, team members, senior staff, examination and funding bodies through reports and identified meetings as directed and as is required through school policies and procedures.
• To develop lesson plans analysing and self-reflecting on the outcomes.
• To attend and contribute to all relevant meetings and maintain good lines of communication with other staff.
• To contribute to the review of EHC plans, PEP and LAC reviews.
• To provide clear structures for lessons maintaining pace, motivation and challenge.
• To take account of wider curriculum developments.
• To maintain an overall awareness of current issues in the field of autism in order to be able to plan for effective teaching and learning.
• To work in a non-confrontational way to ensure individual needs are met.
• To appropriately manage challenging behaviours within the school policy and procedures.

Like many SEN environments; your duties are likely to vary and therefore candidates will need to be flexible and be able to lend a hand whenever required.

Please note that duties will vary and you will be expected to contribute to the overall aims of Poppyfield when required. Please see the link below for our full job description:

Job Description - Teacher

Skills and Qualifications

• Qualified Teacher Status or equivalent teaching qualification and evidence of in-service training.
• Experience of working in a special school environment and in particular with pupils with ASC and SEND
• Experience of successfully delivering a differentiated curriculum to pupils with a wide range of needs.
• Further qualifications in SEND desirable
• Working knowledge of ASC/SEMH students with complex needs.
• Evidence of sound knowledge of the national curriculum.
• Knowledge, understanding and experience of autism and associated co-morbid conditions and how these can affect learning.
• Curriculum development and implementation for pupils with SEND and in particular autism.

Benefits and Additional Information

Be part of our successful team and also benefit from a generous package that includes:

• Life assurance
• Competitive Pension
• * Welcome bonus is payable in 2 parts - 50% following successful completion of probation and 50% after one year service
• Perkbox - offering high street discounts
• Employee assistance programme
• Car lease scheme
• Fully funded training and qualifications
• Bike to work scheme
• Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.

How to apply:

To apply please complete our online application form. For more information please contact Liz at liz.hudson@the-aurora-group.com

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled. 

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.