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Early Years Educator with SEN experience

Early Years Educator with SEN experience

Queen's Park Primary School

Westminster

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Salary:
Dependent on experience
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
8 December 2022

Job overview

Queen’s Park Federation is a forward thinking and inclusive group of schools with a thriving community made up of fantastic children, supportive parents, outstanding staff and strategic governors. We are situated in the heart of Queen’s Park. 


The Treehouse is a new provision for nursery aged children with Autism which has been added to the school to complement its already excellent SEND provision.


The Governors are looking to appoint a Early Years Educator with SEN Experience. 

Salary: £25,862


This person will play a key role, supported by the SLT and SENCO, in opening and maximising the success of our new specialist provision for up to eight nursery aged children with Autism or on a pathway to receiving a diagnosis of Autism. The provision is due to open in September 2021 for a 10 children. The provision will be situated in a newly redesigned section in the heart of the school building.  


The successful candidate will be a talented, passionate and suitably experienced practitioner. They must have a clear understanding and experience of effective teaching and learning as well as of raising and sustaining achievement within specialist Autism provision. They must be a strong communicator and team player and able to engage effectively with the children, staff and parents/ carers on a daily basis. They will also need to be enthusiastic, highly motivated and have the belief in the potential of every individual child as well as the drive to support all children to become the best they can be.


You will be joining a friendly and hardworking team who constantly strive to raise standards for the children and themselves within a successful school.  


Viewings of the school/ conference calls with the Executive Headteacher and SENCO prior to making an application are highly recommended. Please feel free to call and speak to Ben Commins if you require any further information on 0208 969 5835. 


The closing date for application is: Monday 14th June at 9.00am

Short listing will take place on: Monday 15th June 

Interviews will be held on: Friday 18th June


All appointments are dependent upon a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.




About Queen's Park Primary School

Queen’s Park is a medium-sized school with approximately 300 pupils, from Nursery to Year 6. Located in North Westminster, Queen’s Park draws pupils from a socially and culturally diverse local community, with 30 different languages spoken by our families.  The school was last inspected by OFSTED in November 2022. The school was judged to be ‘good’ and the report was extremely positive and highlighted many areas of strength, including the close community ties, a well-planned curriculum and effective leadership.

At Queen’s Park Primary School, we offer a curriculum which is broad and balanced: a curriculum which builds on the knowledge, understanding and skills of all children, whatever their starting points. The curriculum incorporates the statutory requirements of the National Curriculum alongside other experiences and opportunities which best meet the learning and developmental needs of the pupils in our school. We aim to empower our pupils to believe in their capacity to make a change in the world... a change for the good. We want our pupils to recognise their own unique potential and to believe that when they eventually leave school and enter adult life, they will be judged not only by the performance in tests of basic skills, but also by the depth and quality of their work and the quality of their character.

We value mental health and wellbeing as children learn best when they are happy and safe. Each member of staff at Queen's Park Primary is trained in Mental Health First Aid, parents have been being trained as Mental Health Champions and children are taught about neuroscience, looking at how the brain works and how this affects their learning. We have a full time wellbeing and behaviour specialist working at the school, who is trained as an Emotional Literacy Support Assistant. We also have a member of staff trained in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy available to support children with social and emotional needs.

We are an inclusive school, catering for a wide range of abilities and needs. At Queen’s Park School our vision is to provide pupils with a range of learning strategies and life skills that reflects a positive attitude towards their special educational needs. We aim to support the children to become confident learners in life and to strive towards the greatest independence possible. We recognise the importance of building and developing supportive and effective relationships with parents of children with SEND attending our school. Children with special needs and/or a specific learning difficulty will be on our Special Needs Register and both their academic and social progress will be closely monitored. We have a sensory room on site and our class sizes remain small to ensure all children receive the best support possible. 

Queen's Park is the home to the Westminster Children's University, part of the nationwide Children’s University network providing children with extracurricular activities to enrich learning. We understand the need to inspire, challenge and empower children and through our work with the Children’s University aim to raise the aspirations of children across Westminster. We have looked for opportunities for our children to gain real life experiences to enrich learning through a mini lecture series, workshops and clubs, each with clear learning opportunities and delivered by industry specialists and members of our local community.

As the school is a beautiful listed Victorian building, we have been creative with our use of space. In addition to the classrooms, we have converted one of our halls into a computing suite and break out space. We also have smaller intervention rooms available for small group and 1 to 1 work. We have two playgrounds which provide the children with a small football pitch, stage area and basketball hoops. We regularly make use of the local surroundings such as Queen's Park Gardens, Meanwhile Gardens and our very own Forest School at the local church.

Staff members are lively, friendly, supportive and committed and between them have an impressive range of skills and a great sense of humour. Queen’s Park is a thriving school serving a wonderful community. We respect and welcome the diversity in our community as well as thinking of ourselves as one big family. Having recently joined the Queen's Park Federation with local nurseries, this is an exciting period of growth, collaboration and change for the school and wider community. 

If you think you would be interested in joining the team at Queen’s Park Primary School, please contact the school to arrange a visit.

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