Specialist Teacher / SEN Tutor

You have the opportunity to keep teaching, but on your terms. You will earn between £35-45 an hour delivering interest based learning to students 1:1, building incredible relationships and inspiring young people to achieve their goals.

We believe learning can take place anywhere the student is engaged, motivated and provoked into discovery, so if you can turn Minecraft into maths, make cooking into chemistry and transform gardening into geography, the world will be your classroom.

Your Benefits

• You pick the hours you’re available to work.
• You’re able to pick the type of contracts you’re offered.
• You can tailor your workload by picking how far you’re happy to travel and which students you want to work with.
• You’ll discover the joy of 1:1 education working consistently with students.
• You’ll enjoy being matched to learners based on more than geography and availability.
• You’ll  make a difference delivering a bespoke, interest based learning. 
• You get the chance to grow your career with ongoing CPD and training because we never stop learning either.
• You get to flex that creative muscle and find ways to engage disaffected students.
• You get to enjoy teaching without formal planning or hours of assessments and reports.

Role Description

• Focus on developing relationships with children and young people to engage them in learning.
• Understand the importance of emotional regulation and can implement strategies to support/model this appropriately.
• Be part of developing and delivering a holistic curriculum that focuses on all four areas of the EHCP. 
• Create interest based learning opportunities and foster a culture of wonder.
• Understand that learning can happen anywhere, anytime when you’re inspired.
• Have detailed knowledge of a trauma informed approach.
• Following the guidance in each person's individual risk assessment/student plan to support them to manage their anxiety and behaviour in a positive way and to keep them and others safe.
• You’ll use a range of strategies in supporting the range of additional needs we work with.

Role description

• Develop professional relationships with children and young people to show them how amazing learning can be.
• Understand and support emotional regulation using a student centred, holistic approach.
• Create interest based learning opportunities around the 4 areas of EHCP and make a real difference in young people’s lives.
• Deliver 1.1 sessions of exceptional learning centred on holistic targets in students homes or out in the community.
• Hold a belief that learning can happen anywhere, anytime when you’re inspired.
• Have detailed knowledge of a trauma informed approach.
• Follow the guidance in each person's Individual Plan and help them manage their anxiety and behaviour in a really positive way to keep everyone safe.
• Use a range of support strategies to enable learning for any individual we work with.

Person Specification

• You’ll have a Qualified Teaching Status certificate or equivalent. 
• You’ll have extensive experience, at least two years, working with students with a range of complex additional needs.
• You’ll have at least two years teaching experience post NQT.
• You need to understand how to work in a child-centred, holistic way. 
• You’ll be committed to tearing down barriers to learning and making learning fun.
• You’ll have the ingenuity and creativity to make the curriculum work in an individual, student centred way.
• You're willing to register as self-employed.
• You’ll have a strong commitment to safeguarding.
• You’ll have the resilience to manage potentially challenging situations. 

If you’re ready to take the first steps to providing a student-centred, exciting and inspirational education, why not apply now?

Alternatively give us a call on 01444400896 and we can have a chat about the role and why it's right for you.