The role
Reed Education are currently recruiting for 2 long term, outstanding Special School Primary Teachers who are passionate about working with young children who have Special Educational Needs (SEN). One role is teaching Key Stage 1, and the other is Key Stage 2. The start date for both roles will be the 17th April, and will be for the whole Summer term until the end of school in July. There will then be an option to go permanent from September should the respective candidates do well here. A usual working day runs from 830am to 1530pm. The pay will range from M1–UPS3 depending on where you lie on the main teacher pay scale.
The school
Based near Thornhill in Southampton, this wonderful primary SEN School cater for young children between the ages of 4–11 years old who have complex learning difficulties. All the children who attend here have severe level of learning difficulties and many have associated disabilities such as Autism, Speech and Language Disorders, and sometimes challenging behaviour. The purpose–built school has undergone a significant expansion which has created two buildings within our main site and both buildings have wonderful facilities and specialist teaching rooms including food technology rooms, art rooms, ICT Suites, soft playrooms, multi–sensory interactive rooms and a hydrotherapy pool.
What you will need
For this role, you will need Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and preferably experience in working with children / young people / adults that have learning difficulties or SEN. Whilst the children that attend this school are amazing, full of life and exude lots of energy – they can sometimes be challenging, both verbally and physically although this is rare. The school are looking for Teacher's that are kind, caring and empathetic, but also vigilant and confident when they need to be. Teachers that get on well at this school are ones that want to put the time in with each child – to learn about them, work with them on their interests, and engage them in ways that sometimes need to be 'outside of the box'. It is very much a large school but with a very close–knit team, and so being a good team player will also serve you well here by working with the other Teachers, SSA's and support staff.
What to do now
If this exciting opportunity to work in SEN is for you, then please click APPLY NOW to send us your most up to date CV straight away. We will then call you to go through a full registration process before we send your CV to the school. The school are looking to interview in the next 2 weeks, and so please don't hesitate in your application to us as the first step.
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