English Teacher

Teach. Champion. Empower. Safeguard

Salary: £41,287 to £45,198 per annum (TCES Salary Band 4)

Location: Create in the Community, Therapy & Life Skills Centre (IG11) and other community learning settings.

Contract: Permanent, Term time only

We are seeking an experienced and passionate Teacher to lead on the school's English priorities, preparing and delivering an outstanding, engaging and varied curriculum to pupils virtually and in person. You will also prepare the curriculum for Key Stage 4 pupils who opt to take an appropriate qualification. You will ensure that literacy skills are provided context and linked to the real world.

The Complete Education Solution (TCES)

TCES is an independent social enterprise, providing specialist education based in London supporting exceptional neurodiverse children and young people aged 7 to 19 who have special educational needs and disabilities typically associated with autism, social emotional and mental health needs and associated disorders. Most of them will have experienced multiple placement breakdowns and significant trauma, often resulting in behaviour that challenges. On average pupils will have been excluded from other provisions up to three times before reaching us and had significant periods out of education. 

TCES pupils learn at one of our two schools, Create in the Community service or within our Home Learning service; Create in the Community and Create Learning Primary support our most complex and vulnerable pupils, with TCES East London and TCES North West London supporting those who are able to access learning within a school environment. When they are ready, we aim for pupils to step down from Create into one of our main schools, TCES Sixth Form, and mainstream provision.

TCES Create in the Community deliver bespoke learning and therapeutic interventions to neurodiverse pupils, who have a range of complex needs, and who demonstrate behaviours linked to tier 3 / 4 traumas. Pupils are encouraged to find and express their creativity and provided opportunities to achieve awards, alongside traditional subjects, as they move from dependence on others to independence through intensive therapeutic interventions.

Essential requirements to be successful in the role are:

• Experience of managing neurodiverse young people, including those with ASC and/or SEMH, with an understanding of the implications for communication, learning and behaviour patterns.
• Qualified Teacher (holding QTS, QTLS or equivalent) with experience as an English specialist teacher.
• Resilient, committed and a hard worker - able to keep going in the face of adversity and never giving up.
• Experience delivering peripatetic learning programmes, or delivering virtual learning through online platforms or Microsoft software.
• Working knowledge of the National Curriculum, SEND Code of Practice, and the impact of trauma and safeguarding requirements on delivery of education.

In return we offer:

• Competitive terms and conditions, including regular monthly pay.
• An opportunity to make a real difference and join a leading provider of specialist education, directly contributing towards positive outcomes for pupils with SEMH and ASC.
• Excellent CPD opportunities with all staff provided an individual Learning & Development Plan to support career development, including education qualifications at all levels (QTS / QTLS / NPQs) and options to take progressive Ofqual registered Level 3 – 5 qualifications in Therapeutic Education.
• Comprehensive induction process, including all pupil-facing staff supported in receiving the Level 3 Award in Therapeutic Education and Group Process.
• Regular half termly staff wellbeing days.
• A range of employee support and wellbeing benefits including our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), counselling and contributions towards medical costs and an exclusive rewards platform.

Closing date 24 November 2024

To apply:

To apply, please complete an application here. For more information please contact recruitment@tces.org.uk

TCES is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and expects all staff to share this commitment. The appointment is subject to all relevant checks such as references, medical clearance and a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure.

The Complete Education Solution is an equal opportunity employer.