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Job Title: Teacher – History & Geography
Location: Rockshaw Road, Chaldon, Surrey
Contract: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £34,398 - £48,913 per year (M1 - UPS1 Fringe) ** Plus £5,000 Welcome bonus For Qualified Teacher*
Hours: 40 hours per week - Start time 8.15am - Finish time Monday/Wednesday/Thursday 4.45pm. Tuesday 5pm and Friday 4pm
This School
As part of our growth strategy, The Group are really pleased to be opening a brand new SEND Secondary School in September 2025 in Chaldon, Surrey for young people aged 11-16 who require support with social communication, emotional regulation and sensory processing, typically associated with Autism. All our students have access to a broad and exciting curriculum, allied to the national curriculum, personalised to meet their needs, interests and passions. With a model of small classes, high levels of classroom support and a supernumerary multi-disciplinary intervention team we are able to give students “every opportunity to achieve”
We are looking to recruit a Teacher to join our team at this School. This is an exciting opportunity to join the school at the start of their journey. You will be based at this school with a requirement to work out of our satellite site Caterham when required.
The main purpose of the role:
The purpose of the Teacher is to deliver high quality teaching and learning for children and young people with social communication, emotional regulation and sensory processing needs, typically associated with autism. Some pupils may have multiple learning difficulties and may present with some challenging behaviours.
Key duties:
* 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 contribute to the review of Statements and EHC plans, PEP and LAC reviews.
* To provide clear structures for lessons maintaining pace, motivation and challenge.
* 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.
Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required. Please see the link below for our full job description:
Responsibilities:
Successful candidate qualities:
* PGCE, Qualified Teacher Status or equivalent teaching qualification and evidence of in-service training.
* Ability to teach History and Geography up to and including GCSE level
* Working knowledge of students with complex needs and SEND.
* 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
Qualifications:
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 payments - 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.
* Free parking
** Within this school we support teacher professional development by offering Upper Pay Scale both to teachers joining the company and through our internal professional development and performance management process.
To be offered a role on Upper Pay Scale we will expect you to:
* provide evidence that you are already receiving an Upper Pay Scale salary.
* Hold specific allocated responsibility, once you have completed your induction, that contributes to whole school improvement including the overall raising of standards in the school and demonstrate their ongoing commitment to their own CPD.
Details of the relevant area of responsibility will be discussed with you at interview and further when you join the company.
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 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 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.
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