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Teaching Vacancies; Crewe; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Part time

Job summary

Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School is seeking a creative teacher to cover maternity leave from January 2027. The role focuses on ensuring progress through robust interventions while supporting mainstream learning and achieving high-quality outcomes for students.

The successful candidate will have QTS and substantial SEN experience, including cognition and learning needs, lesson planning, delivering engaging lessons, and coordinating an individualised curriculum for small cohorts.

Qualifications

• Hold QTS and SEN experience, including cognition and learning needs.
• Plan, prepare and deliver outstanding lessons.
• Develop flexible, individualised curriculum for small cohorts.
• Baseline assessment and progress tracking.
• Collaborate with LA SEN teams and clinicians.
• Lead a team of support staff.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality lessons for students with SEN.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to support learning.
• Monitor and track student progress and adapt plans accordingly.
• Provide strong leadership and direction to support staff.

Skills

SEN experience

QTS

Curriculum planning

Lesson delivery

Assessment and tracking

Team leadership

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Qualified teacher status (QTS)

Job description

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Part Time, 0.8, temporary Maternity Cover
• Start January 2027

We are looking for an innovative and creative teacher to cover a period of maternity leave from January 2027. The role was introduced to ensure all students within our care are making progress via robust interventions to close gaps, whilst supporting mainstream learning, providing the best possible educational provision and outcomes.

Working alongside the Director of Inclusion and SENDCo you will demonstrate a clear understanding of the challenges of delivering consistent, quality learning opportunities to students with higher and complex needs.

The successful candidate will hold QTS and evidence considerable experience in the following:

• Working with children with SEN, particularly cognition and learning needs, and other additional needs.
• Researching, planning, preparing, and delivering outstanding lessons.
• Developing and delivering flexible and purposeful, individualised curriculum, often to a small cohort.
• Robust baseline, assessing and tracking of both traditional and non-traditional curriculum and learning programmes.
• Working with internal colleagues, critical friends, parents, and clinicians as well as the network of external colleagues in Local Authority SEN teams.
• High levels of self-reflection, motivation to improve own practice and a solution focused, positive approach to operational challenges.
• Management and direction of a team of support staff.

Interviews will be held the following week

NOR 1214 including 139 in the Sixth Form

What the school offers its staff

We believe in a culture of collaboration, empowerment and ownership so that we consistently deliver the best possible experience for all of our children, families and colleagues. We are committed to being part of a community of learners and recognising how we can work collaboratively to be more effective in managing workload and building professional resilience. In securing a post here, you will join a team of dedicated colleagues who enjoy the reward of working with an outstanding group of learners and colleagues who are there for each other.

Commitment to safeguarding

Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School and Sixth Form College trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All roles involve contact with children and are thus engaged in regulated activity relevant to children. Shortlisted candidates will be subject to references and online searches. Employment is subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974.

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.