Class Teacher - Watergate School

Watergate School; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Watergate School, a primary special school in London, is seeking an inspirational teacher to start in September 2025. Ideal candidates are enthusiastic and creativity-driven professionals adept at engaging students with complex learning needs. The role includes leading a curriculum area and contributing to a supportive learning environment that fosters a love for learning.

Benefits

Significant professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experienced teachers and Early Career Teachers encouraged to apply.
• Ability to lead a curriculum area.
• Skillful in engaging children with severe and complex learning difficulties.

Responsibilities

• Deliver imaginative lessons tailored for students with SEND.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.
• Contribute to the school's holistic curriculum and community.

Skills

Enthusiasm

Creativity

Collaboration

Education

Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)

Job description

Are you ready to take the next step in your career?

We are looking for an inspirational teacher to join our expanding, experienced and skilled team starting September 2025.

Watergate is an Outstanding primary special school for children with a range of severe and complex learning difficulties, many of whom also have autism. We are at an exciting stage of our development, with expansion on the horizon and a holistic, child-centred curriculum in place.

At Watergate, we believe in creating an aspirational, exciting, creative, and fun learning community so our children are happy, motivated, and develop a love for learning.

Leaders, including governors, have ensured that there is an ambitious and well-designed curriculum. Planned sequences of lessons help pupils to work on personalised goals. Teachers use interesting and imaginative resources to bring lessons to life. Staff know pupils very well and have extensive subject knowledge in the areas they teach. They also have an expert understanding of pupils’ needs. Ofsted March 2022

Multi-disciplinary working and close family liaison are central to our ‘team around the child’ approach. We are looking for an exceptional classroom practitioner who can secure outstanding outcomes for pupils. You will be expected to take a role in leading an area of the curriculum and to be an active part of the Watergate school community.

We offer significant professional development opportunities for all staff, regardless of where you are on your career path. We welcome applications from experienced teachers and Early Career Teachers with some experience of children with SEND.

If you are an inspirational, enthusiastic, and skillful teacher, eager to develop your career in an innovative, creative, and caring learning community, we want to hear from you.

Please send completed applications to Adeana Roberts –

[e-mail]

Closing date: 28th June – 12.00 Midnight

Interviews: Week commencing 29th June 2025

Please contact the school office to arrange a visit to the school.

Watergate School, Lushington Road, Bellingham SE6 3WG

Tel: [phone] | Fax: [phone]

Web: watergate.lewisham.sch.uk

Watergate school takes its commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children very seriously. All staff must share this commitment.

The school is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore, the successful candidate will be required to undertake an enhanced criminal record check via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), as well as qualifications and reference checks.

If you have lived or worked overseas for three months or more as an adult (Over 18), you must provide the relevant overseas check.

Original evidence of the right to work within the United Kingdom will be required prior to the commencement of employment.