SEN Food Tech Teacher

Overview and Responsibilities

SEN Food Tech Teacher

Essential Criteria: PGCE, Qualified Teacher Status or equivalent teaching qualification and evidence of in-service training.

Salary: M1 £30,000 – UPS3 £46,525 

Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent

Hours: Full-time, 40 hours per week

Location: Aurora Woodlands, Darwen

  The Aurora Group 

The Aurora Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities.  Aurora Woodlands School is an independent day school in Lancashire providing specialist education for young people with Social, Emotional and Mental Health difficulties (SEMH).

 The Role:

As our Class Teacher; your role will be to provide outstanding teaching and learning of Food Technology to our learners, leading to appropriate accreditation/qualifications.

 To facilitate this, you’ll plan and deliver lessons according to DFE guidance and the school’s policies and be responsible for the day to day running of the class, including supervision of a Teaching Assistant, and other relevant aspects of the running of the school.

 Naturally, you will take responsibility for implementing school policies and practices, including those relating to safeguarding and equality of opportunity. Additionally; you will also be expected to carefully monitoring the health, well-being and personal care of our pupils; informing care/medical/behavioural support teams and any other relevant professionals of any concerns.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Provide a safe, nurturing classroom and school environment for our SEN/ASD learners that helps students to develop as learners
• Consistently plan, resource and deliver differentiated lessons that allow stimulating and enjoyable learning to take place
• To ensure resources are suitably adapted to the needs of groups and individuals to enable all pupils are able to access learning
• Ensure that all students are given quality feedback in order to make effective progress
• Contribute to the development of key skills for all students (Maths, English, life skills)
• Help to maintain/establish excellent standards of behaviour for learning
• Plan and prepare engaging lessons based on agreed schemes of work leading to agreed accreditation or qualifications
• Teach engaging and effective lessons that motivate, inspire and improve student attainment
• Use regular assessments to monitor progress and set targets
• Ensure that all students achieve
• Maintain accurate student data that can be used to make teaching more effective
• Make a positive contribution to our strong school community, reflective of our Aurora values

Skills and Qualifications

Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:

• Qualified Teacher status
• Thorough working knowledge of the curriculum and how to adapt this for pupils with SEN
• Experience of working with young people with ASD
• Preferably with prior experience of delivering BTEC home cooking or similar.
• Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedures
• Ability to create and maintain nurturing relationships with young people
• Experience of managing a range of approaches to learning, to include the students with anxiety.
• Knowledge of strategies and visual teaching methods to engage reluctant learners important.
• A flexible approach and a high level creativity

Benefits and Additional Information

What’s on offer?

• Training and Development

Within Aurora, we strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people we support. We offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all our employees to improve your skills and further your career. 

• Save money on your bills!!

With the cost of living rising we have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further. Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are. You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more. You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme. 

• Competitive Pay and Reward

Every year we compare the market rates of pay and rewards to insure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations. We also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Pension and Life Assurance.

• UK Health Cash Plan

This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills. You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.

• Employee Assistance Programme

Your health and wellbeing is very important to us and we have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7. 

• Refer a friend for £1,000

We’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)

How to apply?

Please complete an online application form in full, remembering to include all employment and education details. If you need any assistance or would like any more information please contact Karen in the Aurora Group Recruitment Team at karen.barnfield@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.