SEN Physical Education Teacher (with outdoor learning experience) - Newhaven School

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SEN Physical Education Teacher (with outdoor learning experience) - Newhaven School

Location:                           Newhaven School King’s Park - Eltham Palace Road, Eltham, London, SE9 5LX

Contract:                           Permanent – 33.5 hours per week, Term Time-39 weeks

Salary:                    

A SEN Physical Education Teacher (with experience of Outdoor Learning)  is required to join our school in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, which meets the needs of young people for whom mainstream education has not been effective. Newhaven is a trauma informed school that provides successful education for students who have been excluded from mainstream school, are struggling with engagement with learning, have severe mental health difficulties (with or without a diagnosis of ASD), or are in hospital.

We are proud of our commitment to equity and diversity and the journey we have been on developing our policy and practice through the work of our active staff resource groups who focus on race, sexuality, sex discrimination and gender reassignment. This drives our aspirations that all our students can fully participate in society as agents of change and can make the world a better place.

We are looking for creative problem solvers who can plan effectively to support students to overcome their barriers to learning. You will have the skills, ability and initiative to engage with our young people and support their academic and social development. You will have the tenacity and resilience to support students who have often not engaged in a mainstream education environment. You will ideally have experience with similar young people (high functioning youngsters with ASD/ students with SEMH/students who have been excluded from mainstream schools), but more importantly will be an outstanding candidate with a ‘can do’ attitude and the resilience to work with our challenging cohort of bright, energetic young people.

Newhaven is committed to continuous professional development with a wide range of opportunities from our extensive TA training programme, our learning focused development cycle, leadership development programme and access to external professional qualifications.

In our most recent survey staff said that they are proud to work at Newhaven because we are ‘a strong team of people working together to support all students to fulfill their potential’, because of our ‘unwavering commitment and the camaraderie of staff’ and because ‘we make a real difference to young people’s lives’.

We are looking for a knowledgeable SEN Physical Education Practitioner, ideally with experience of delivering the Equals PE Curriculum based at our King’s Park campus where students with ASD and mental health concerns come to school.

If you are interested and share our vision and passion for young people’s education please do not hesitate to contact us and speak to HR (Debs Davis) on 0208 859 3114 to discuss the role further. You are welcome to visit Newhaven and are encouraged to look at our website for further details at www.newhavenschool.co.uk where you can download the job description, person specification and application form.

Closing date:        26th February 2023

Interviews:           Week commencing 6th March 2023

Start date:             ASAP

Please submit your fully completed support staff application form to: recruitment@newhaven.greenwich.sch.uk

Newhaven is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to a satisfactory Enhanced with Barred List check through the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) plus additional pre-employment checks.