Qualified SEN Teacher

Kisimul Group Limited; Swinderby; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Continuous professional development

Pension

Blue Light card discounts

Refer a friend £500

WageStream access

Wellbeing app

Life Assurance

Job summary

Kisimul Group Ltd are seeking an outstanding Qualified Teacher to join our Education Team at schools in Swinderby, Lincoln. You will work with autistic learners aged 9 to 18, delivering a person-centred, engaging curriculum and collaborating with therapy colleagues to support holistic development.

We value creativity, resilience and a collaborative ethos, offering full training and a supportive environment. Visits to the school are encouraged and highly advisable.

Qualifications

• Must have teaching qualification (QTS or QTLS).
• Outstanding practitioner with passion for children with complex learning needs.
• Knowledge of autism and neurodiverse education approaches desirable.
• Experience across age ranges is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain good working relationships to promote curriculum delivery and achievement.
• Teach students according to educational needs, recognizing every interaction counts.
• Create a safe, well-regulated teaching space for individual children and groups.
• Follow agreed strategies to support young people with school and therapy colleagues.
• Regularly assess learning to inform planning and next steps.
• Match tasks to ability to enable meaningful progress in real-life contexts.
• Collaborate with a team of professionals and liaise with parents and other staff.

Skills

Excellent communication

Team player

Adaptable and imaginative

Humour and resilience

Education

QTS or QTLS

Job description

QUALIFIED TEACHER – SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS - OPPORTUNITIES BASED IN SWINDERBY, LINCOLN

Are you looking for a fresh Challenge? At Kisimul we support autistic children who have associated learning disabilities at our day and residential schools in Lincolnshire. We are recruiting for an outstanding Teachers to join our well established Education Team at schools in Swinderby (LN6). We require suitably qualified teachers, with relevant SEN experience, who will create outstanding teaching and learning opportunities for individuals and small groups of pupils (aged between 9 to 18), ensuring a person-centred approach that is purposeful and meaningful.

Are You:

• Passionate about making a difference?
• An imaginative, adaptable teacher and outstanding communicator?
• Able to lead by example, holding and articulating clear values and moral purpose, and focusing on providing excellent education for all pupils?
• Passionate in using your knowledge of current theory and practice in teaching and learning, and SEND, to provide a highly effective stimulating and engaging curriculum?
• A team player with a sense of humour?
• Able to demonstrate a ‘whatever it takes attitude’ to remove barriers to learning?
• Have a collaborative ethos, working with colleagues to develop day to day excellence?
• Creative and flexible, adapting resources and approaches to interest and engage
• Resilient and able to thrive on the challenge of educating children who other providers have been unable to engage or regulate effectively.

We offer exceptional and diverse teaching opportunities to support our pupils and make their time at school happy and productive, creating an inclusive learning environment where everyone feels valued and respects each other. Our pupils are nurtured to achieve their full personal, social, academic and vocational potential with high expectations and aspirations within high quality learning opportunities which meet individual needs.

No two days are the same so we want teachers who are committed to furthering their knowledge in a demanding but highly rewarding environment. You will be encouraged to explore and deliver using innovative approaches based around the interests of our young people.

Whilst previous experience of working in a SEN environment would be desirable, excellent teaching skills and the right motivation, personal qualities and a desire to deliver education that reflects our Meaningful Life ethos are just as important to us. You will be provided with full training, and have the benefit of working alongside our clinical colleagues from Speech and Language, Occupational and Music Therapy to provide a therapeutically informed approach.

• Visits to the school are actively encouraged and highly advisable.

What will you be doing?

• Establish and maintain good working relationships in order to promote the development and effective delivery of the school curriculum and maximise our young people’s achievement.
• Teaching students according to their educational needs and acknowledging that every interaction counts.
• Creating a safe and well-regulated teaching space that will ensure the educational well-being of individual children within the group.
• Following agreed and consistent strategies to support young people alongside school, therapeutic services and residential colleagues.
• Ensuring careful and ongoing assessment of learning to inform further planning and next steps.
• Ensuring that tasks and activities are matched to the ability of the children- allowing them to make meaningful progress and skills and knowledge that can be applied in real life context.
• Working within a team of like minded professionals, using team work and humour to ensure a cohesive and supportive education community.
• Liaising effectively with parents and a wide range of professionals.

About You

Experience and qualifications:

• Must have appropriate teaching Qualification (QTS or QTLS).
• Be an outstanding practitioner, with a passion for working with children with complex learning needs.
• Knowledge of autism, and an understanding of neurodiverse approaches to education desirable
• Experience of teaching of working with a range of age phases is desirable.

What will you get in return?

• Competitive salary
• Continuous professional development and training for a clear career path
• Pension
• Opportunity to enrich the lives of young people and make a positive difference
• Be part of a fantastic team who work hard together and support each other
• Open and positive working environment
• Blue Light card - which give you access to discounts in over 15,000 venues UK wide
• Refer a friend - Earn upto £500 through our refer a friend scheme
• WageStream - a financial wellbeing app, allowing you early access to some of your wages for those unforeseen expenses
• Help@hand - a well being app which gives you access to unlimited GP appointments, confidentiality 24/7 mental health support and physiotherapy sessions
• Life Assurance

About Kisimul Group

Kisimul Group Ltd are a group of independent specialist schools and adult provisions providing exceptional residential care and award-winning education to children, young people and adults who are autistic, have severe and complex learning difficulties and may present with associated behaviours of concern.

Kisimul is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults, children and young people, and expects all staff to share this commitment.

Kisimul is committed to valuing diversity and promoting equality for all.

All applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS Check.

Kisimul Group Ltd is an equal opportunities employer

Due to current UK Government guidelines, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role. Sponsorship is restricted to eligible colleagues who are already employed by the organisation. Please be aware that Children’s Homes positions are not eligible for sponsorship.