Humanities Teacher
Newhaven School
Greenwich
- Expired
- Salary:
- Inner London salary range plus SEN1
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2016
- Apply by:
- 17 May 2016
Job overview
The senior leadership team at Newhaven are building a team of staff to help us develop an exciting new provision targeting young people with Autistic Spectrum Conditions and mental health difficulties.
You will be trained to teach within KS2-5 and may have experience of young people with ASCs. More importantly you will be a great teacher with a willingness to learn and who will be as excited as we are at this rare opportunity to build something special from the ground up.An ability to teach Psychology is desirable but not essential.
Your role will be to play a key part in the delivery of the national curriculum to our small cohort. You will have a Humanities subject specialism but will also be flexible enough and take on responsibility for other subject areas depending on your strengths and the balance of the team. The senior leadership team is determined to give our students the best opportunities possible to become successful, responsible citizens with bright futures.
Newhaven King’s Park has just moved into a fully refurbished building with state of the art ICT and a full range of other facilities. We have been part of the design team for the past two years making sure that the school has been developed with the needs of our young people at the forefront. We have started small with 14 young people attending King’s Park this year rising to 55 students by September 2018. The school delivers the national curriculum with each student having a curriculum that is personalised as much as necessary to ensure that they are engaged with education and making rapid progress towards independence and success.
We are looking for:
- Outstanding classroom practitioners with the ability to inspire others and a commitment to high standards
- A proven record of good academic results with students of all abilities
- Innovation and an ability to inspire students with a range of needs
- Preferably experience of working with students with ASCs but if not, a thirst to learn.
Closing date Wednesday 18 May 2016
Interviews Week commencing 23 May 2016
For further details about Newhaven School together with application details please visit: www.newhavenschool.co.uk or phone Jon Kelly (Deputy Head, Newhaven) to discuss the post.
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.
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About Newhaven School
“Newhaven is different to other PRUs because Newhaven will never give up on you, no matter what. They push you to do your very best and guide and support you to the end and even after.”
Zaqiel, Year 11
Newhaven Pupil Referral Unit is a high performing and complex alternative provision set in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. We believe in providing opportunities for students to become independent and well-rounded individuals ready to embrace all that life has to offer, removing the barriers to learning that have hindered their progress up to now.
At Newhaven we have an extremely effective team of dedicated staff to support the progress of every child, including specialist LSAs and HLTAs, Educational Psychologists, Speech and Language Therapists and CAMHS link workers. Our most recent Ofsted report notes that Newhaven pupils “benefit from a committed team of professionals who enjoy coming to work. This is because they feel valued and are supported to work together to improve pupils’ outcomes”.
Newhaven has a positive "can do" attitude, believing that the sky is the limit, and we think creatively and innovatively to meet the needs of our learners and school community. Our examination results and student destinations are a testament to this.
To read more about the different schools that comprise Newhaven, as well as our ethos and values, please visit our website www.newhavenschool.co.uk
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