SEN Teacher

Shorefields; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading independent special school in Chelmsford is seeking a passionate SEN Teacher to join their team. The role involves creating a nurturing environment for children with special educational needs, focusing on their social, emotional, and mental health. The ideal candidate will have experience in differentiated teaching and be committed to ongoing professional development. This full-time position offers a salary range of £25,000 to £40,000, depending on experience, along with various benefits including private healthcare and a company pension.

Benefits

Private healthcare after 1 year service

Free onsite parking

Uniform provided

Company pension

Company laptop and phone

Option for free lunches

Qualifications

• Excellent classroom practitioner with a clear understanding of how children learn.
• Experience of working with pupils who have social, emotional, and mental health difficulties.

Responsibilities

• Plan and teach inspirational, specialist and highly differentiated lessons.
• Provide a stimulating and well-structured learning environment for pupils with SEMH, ASD.
• Contribute to the development of the school including individual and whole school improvement.

Skills

Classroom Management

Differentiation

Communication

Teamwork

Assessment

Education

Qualified Teacher Status

Job description

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

Application Close: 01/06/2025 Midnight Date of Interviews: TBC

SEN Teacher


Contract type: Full time, Monday to Friday, TTO
Salary: £25,000 - £40,000pa, dependent on experience
Closing Date: 01/06/2025

Interview date TBC Interviews will be held during the school
day, this will include a formal interview and teaching observation.

Woodend Farm School based in Witham, has an exciting opportunity for a SEN Teacher to join the team here at our expanding, 'Good' Ofsted rated, independent, special school!

At Woodend Farm School we believe every child deserves a quality first education,regardless of background or need. We believe that school should be an environment
where a child feels safe, secure and is provided with nurture by professionals that areinvested in them. We believe in developing positive and trusting relationships.

Our values are grounded in a determination to be the change we want to see in the world, throughpassion, commitment and integrity. We want to plant seeds of kindness and compassionin a generation that will help them develop resilience and hope to fulfil their own destinies.

Our success therefore will be measured by the impact we have on the children we workwith.

Job Description
At Woodend Farm School our vision is to develop a creative sensory curriculum thatenables children to flourish whilst providing them with opportunities in a safe and
structured environment to meet their unmet developmental needs surrounding theirsocial, emotional, and mental health. To take children from being Survivors to Strivers toThrivers. As a SEN Teacher you will be part of this exciting opportunity to work in a newschool specifically designed to support students' individual educational needs.

Teaching and Learning Responsibilities
1. Plan and teach inspirational, specialist and highly differentiated lessonsusing a thematic curriculum approach
2. Make accurate and productive use of assessment to promote goodprogress
3. Provide a stimulating and well-structured learning environment suitable forpupils with SEMH, ASD, communication difficulties
4. Develop a bespoke, topic-based curriculum that meets the academic,special, and personal development needs of pupils in KS1 and KS2.
5. Keep abreast of developments in the National Curriculum and work withcolleagues to establish the overall curriculum for the school includingoutdoor learning
6. Play a full and active role in the development of the school includingindividual and whole school improvement
7. Participate in and take responsibility for your continuing personalprofessional development
8. Support the school through developing consistent approach to behaviourmanagement, teaching, and learning, marking, assessment etc. followingrelevant school policies
9. Promote pupil progress through the effective deployment and coordinationof support staff including mentors and learning facilitators

General
1. Contribute to the accurate and appropriate use and maintenance of up-todate recording systems including those related to attendance, behaviour,progress and learning etc.
2. To undertake annual reviews and contribute information to students'undergoing EHCP process
3. To communicate with parents about everyday issues and achievements
4. To be responsible for a specific class and the registration of students
5. Demonstrate a critical understanding of strategies, processes, anddevelopments within SEND and reflect this understanding in daily practice
6. Carry out any other duties appropriate to the level expected of a teacherwithin a specialist provision
7. Take reasonable care of the health and safety of yourself, other persons,and resources whilst at work
8. Co-operate with the leadership and management of the school as far as isnecessary to enable the responsibilities placed upon it under the Health andSafety at Work Act to be performed e.g., operate safe working practices

9. To be responsible for carrying out the appropriate duties set out in your job description

10.You will be expected to carry out your duties in line with our school'spolicies, procedures, and relevant legislation. You will be made aware of
these in your appointment letter, statement of particulars, induction,ongoing performance management and development
11.You are required to promote and actively support the school'sresponsibilities towards safeguarding. Safeguarding is about keeping both
our students and yourself safe and protecting young people from harm,neglect, abuse, and injury. It is about creating safe places, being vigilant
and doing something about any concerns you might have. It isn't just aboutthe very old and the very young, it is about everyone who may be
vulnerable.

RESPONSIBLE TO: Head of School
RESPONSIBLE FOR: Class Learning Facilitator

Criteria
In order to be shortlisted for this post, you will need to demonstrate, using examples inyour personal statement, that you meet the criteria listed below. Competence may bedemonstrated through knowledge, experience, skills, abilities, education, training, work,and other activities.

Employee Specification Criteria Essential/ Desirable - Identified

GENERAL AND SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
● Excellent classroom practitioner with a clear understandingof how children learn - Essential
● Knowledge of effective curriculum development in EYFS processKS1 and KS2 - Desireable
● Ability to work and plan as part of a team - Essential
● Ability to use a range of classroom management andteaching strategies to engage pupils and promote progress - Essential
● Skilled in the use of nurture and outdoor learning or able andcommitted to developing these skills in a shot amount of time - Desireable
● Excellent understanding of assessment and target setting -Essential
● Ability to differentiate teaching to support all pupils and theirSEN - Essential
● Knowledge of SEND - Essential
● Ability to mentor Teaching Assistants, ETC's and apprenticesand complete relevant paperwork - Essential

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
● Recent experience of teaching children in the primary phase - Desireable
● Experience of working with pupils who have social,emotional, and mental health difficulties - Essential
● Experience of topic-based planning and assessment - Essential
● Experience of nurture provision and outdoor learning - Desireable
● Experience of planning and monitoring personal learningpackage - Essential
● Experience of implementing intervention strategies tosupport pupils - Essential
● Experience of liaison and co-operation with otherprofessional agencies - Desireable

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
● Qualified Teacher (QTS or equivalent) - Desireable
● Commitment to continue professional development - Essential
● Evidence of recent INSET - Desireable

ADDITIONAL FACTORS
● Ability to work flexibly and co-operatively as a member of theschool team - Essential
● To be positive, sensitive, resilient, enthusiastic, trustworthy, processrespectful of confidentiality and promote a good image of the
school in the wider community - Essential
● Willing to participate in additional school activity, andinvolvement in the wider life of the school - Essential
● Good organisational skills yet flexible and motivated inattitude to respond to the changing needs of the school - Essential
● A commitment to the whole school philosophy and a desireto continually strive for improvement- Essential
● Have a full driving license and a vehicle available for workpurposes including the transportation of pupils - Desireable
● Willingness and ability to undertake Essex Steps training andwork within "good practice" guidelines using a range ofpositive handling strategies, gradual and graded, involved inholding, guiding and escorting safety, from least intrusive tomore restrictive holds - Essential
● Willingness to undertake an enhanced Disclosure & BarringService check and an Asylum & Immigration check. Pleasenote that a conviction may not exclude candidates fromappointment but will be considered as part of the recruitmentprocess - Essential
● Willingness to take on the core values of our school in everyaspect of their work and develop a Thrive Approach todealing with behaviour- Essential

NOTE TO APPLICANTS: You will only be shortlisted from the details in your personalstatement if you demonstrate that you meet all the essential criteria (marked Essential).

www.woodendfarm.school

Private healthcare after 1 year service

Free onsite parking

Uniform provided

Company pension

Company laptop and phone

Option for free lunches

Information about the School

We believe in investing in people. As professionals in the helping profession, we believe and aspire to offer a better future to those children, young people and families we work with.Success for us means unleashing the potential of each individual we engage with, so they can grow and develop each day, to be better versions of themselves.Our values are grounded in our determination to be the change we want to see in the world, through passion, commitment and integrity.We want to plant a seed of kindness and compassion in a generation that will produce resilience & hope and enable them to fulfill their own destinies.

Our success therefore will be measured in the lives we changed through REACH.

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.

Kevin Quantrill
Pavilion and Sports Ground
West Hanningfield Road
Great Baddow, Chelmsford
Essex, CM2 8HN Telephone: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

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