SEN ASD Teacher - Full time

Shorefields; Colchester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational institution in Colchester seeks passionate Teachers for therapeutic SEND education. Starting September 2025, the role involves working with ASD and sensory learners, promoting their full potential. The school offers excellent training, a supportive environment, and a dedicated team. Visits are encouraged to experience the welcoming community.

Benefits

Dedicated support staff

Timetabled PPA

Excellent training and support

Supportive governors

Free health and wellbeing services

Qualifications

• Ability to create a clear vision for the class.
• Strong track record of outstanding teaching.
• Understanding the complexities of SEN pupils.

Responsibilities

• Work with ASD and sensory learners.
• Encourage pupils to achieve their fullest potential.
• Provide high quality training and development.

Skills

Therapeutic Work

Vision Creation

Outstanding Teaching

Assessment Skills

High Expectations

Understanding SEN

Passion for SEND

Education

QTS

Job description

Position Start Date: 01/09/2025 Contract Type: Full-time Contract Term: Permanent

Application Close: 21/05/2025 Midday Date of Interviews: 23/5/2025

Are you passionate about therapeutic SEND education? Do you want to make sure that all pupils reach their full potential and receive the very best opportunities and outcomes? If so we are looking to expand our team of dynamic, enthusiastic and hard working Teachers.

We are looking for a teacherto start from September 2025 to work with our ASD and sensory learners, job shares will be considered.

Lexden Springs is an inspiring school where no two days are ever the same (but a smile is always guaranteed!) which caters for pupils aged 3 - 19 who have a variety of severe learning difficulties, including some with autism and/or challenging behaviour and some with serious medical conditions.

We pride ourselves in having high quality and enthusiastic staff that encourage our pupils to achieve their fullest potential academically, socially, emotionally, physically, morally, spiritually and aesthetically, enabling each pupil to grow in confidence, and able to participate in the wider community. We support our staff in doing this by offering a high level of training and development throughout their time at Lexden Springs and encouraging them too to also reach their fullest potential.

To join our team you will need:

• To want to work therapeutically
• The ability to create a clear vision for the class
• The skills to develop the pupils to their full potential
• To have a strong track record of outstanding teaching
• To be able to assess pupils knowledge and understanding scaffolding their next steps accurately
• To have high expectations of students and experience of raising achievement
• Understand the complexities of SEN pupils
• Have QTS to understand the learning of our pupils
• Passion for pupils with SEND

In return we will provide:

• A dedicated and experienced team of support staff in your class.
• Timetabled PPA
• Excellent training and support/mentoring
• Supportive and proactive governors
• Awesome pupils and staff
• The ability to undertake educational research
• An amazing purpose built school with excellent facilities
• Free health and wellbeing services including GP appointments, counselling and much more
  A wonderfully welcoming school community
• Why work within Hope Learning Community?
• Each and every day we are lucky enough and have the privilege of working with the most amazing, unique children. They never fail to inspire, interest and educate us in ways we could never have imagined. We are a forward thinking school and understand that every child is an individual and do our utmost best to ensure they are given the support, guidance and opportunity to succeed in an environment where they feel safe, secure and valued.

Visits to our school are encouraged and welcomed. Please call the school office to arrange a visit on [phone] Option 2 or email [e-mail]

Hope Learning Community is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and other vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across our schools.

Hope Learning Community is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of any protected characteristics. This is embedded in our vision 'To Be Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts', where we believe we are strong and more successful working together, creating a workplace which celebrates diversity.

All appointments are subject to safer recruitment requirements to ensure the safeguarding of children and young people. All positions will involve appropriate checks and clearances.

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