SEN Humanities Teacher

SEN Humanities Teacher - Aurora Woodlands

Location: Darwen, Lancashire

Salary: M1 – UPS2 - £25,714 - £40,124

Hours: 40 hours per week

The Aurora Woodlands School is an 'Good' rated innovative provider of education and care, supporting young boys aged 10 - 19 with complex needs typically related to Asperger’s Syndrome, Autism and other conditions.

We’re currently looking to recruit an experienced SEN Humanities Teacher to join us at our beautiful woodlands surrounded school in Darwen.

The main purpose of the role:

As a SEN Teacher; your role will be to provide high quality, challenging and differentiated educational activities and sensory experiences through the teaching of a broad and balanced curriculum to a small classroom of children with advanced SEMH needs, to enable them to achieve their full potential in all areas of learning.

To facilitate this, you’ll be expected to plan and deliver lessons following a broad range of the key stages curriculum that’s tailored to each student and assist with the day to day running of the school.

Additionally you’ll supervise and provide support and guidance to our Teaching Assistants and Higher Level Teaching Assistants and play a key role in their Professional Development Reviews.

Naturally, you will take responsibility for implementing school policies and practices, including those relating to safeguarding and equality of opportunity and will be expected to work in partnership with all school staff, parents, carers and other agencies in providing for the academic, spiritual, moral, social, emotional and cultural well-being of students and their families.

Like many SEN environments; your duties are likely to vary and therefore candidates will need to be flexible and be able to lend a hand whenever required.

Key Duties/Requirements of the Role: 

• Undertake the duties of a teacher as specified by the Head Teacher 
• To provide specialist support in general for children with special education needs, and specifically for children with SEMH needs as defined in their EHCPs 
• To track and monitor pupil progress in all aspects

The successful candidate will have knowledge of 

• The Aurora Values: Caring, ambitious, collaborative, trusted, innovative; embedding these in the approaches used with our pupils 
• Statutory curriculum requirements 
• Requirements for assessment, recording and reporting of pupil’s attainment and progress 
• The characteristics of high-quality teaching and the main strategies for securing and sustaining high standards of teaching, learning and achievement of all pupils 
• The implications of legislation regarding Special Educational Needs for teaching, learning, Health and Safety, and safeguarding

Skills and Qualifications:

The successful candidate is likely to demonstrate – 

• Qualified Teacher status 
• Thorough working knowledge of the curriculum, and how to adapt this for pupils with SEN 
• Experience of working with young people with ASD and SEMH 
• Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedures 
• Ability to create and maintain nurturing relationships with young people 
• Experience of managing a range of approaches to learning, to include the students with anxiety and ASD/SEMH. 
• Knowledge of strategies and visual teaching methods to engage reluctant learners important. 
• A flexible approach and a high level creativity

What’s on offer? 

• Full training (if required) and continued support 
• Life assurance and pension 
• Health cash back plan 
• Bike to work scheme 
• Car lease scheme 
• Perk box 
• Free parking

Please see the following link to take a tour of our school - Woodlands Virtual Tour

For more information on this position please contact 07920 223415/ karen.barnfield@the-aurora-group.com 

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.  

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children."

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer