Lead Maths Teacher

Lead Maths Teacher – Beeches School

Location: Cranborne, Dorset

Salary: £43,266.00 - £44,870.00 (UPS 1-2), plus £1,500.00 leadership allowance.

Hours: 40 hours per week – Term time only

At Aurora Beeches in Cranborne, we believe in giving young people, ages 11-16, the tools and opportunities to create the lives they want for themselves. With high-quality teaching, an excellent level of individual support and a range of expert-led, integrated therapy, we support all our young people with a range of needs including Autism and other associated conditions. We can take advantage of our beautiful setting to inspire and create fun experiences to enhance learning and progress.

The main purpose of the role:

Required for September 2023, a dynamic, well-qualified and committed Lead Practitioner to join our Maths teaching team.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our growing school and an excellent preparation for future senior leadership positions. We would also welcome applications from candidates who feel they have the qualities of an emerging Lead Practitioner.

Beeches School is a specialist SEN school where pupils achieve well and are part of a strong and caring community, the school consists of five Teachers, Pastoral Lead, eleven Teaching Assistants and four Higher Level Teaching Assistants.

Our school's progress was recognised by Ofsted in January 2020 when they stated, "Staff cherish pupils in this little school. There are warm and caring relationships, which ensure a calm learning environment. Pupils enjoy their lessons. They like spending time relaxing in the abundant gardens of the college. Pupils improve their physical and emotional health through working with the school dogs and playing with Dave, the hamster. These activities are particularly effective for supporting the pupils who have complex medical and special educational needs and/or disabilities’’.

Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required.

For the full job description and break down of duties, please contact kirsty.wilkinson@the-aurora-group.com

Skills and Qualifications

Successful candidate qualities:

• Essential: PGCE, QTS/QTLS, Level 5 diploma or equivalent teaching qualification and evidence of in-service training.
• To be able to teach Entry level 2 & 3, Functional Skills Level 1 & 2 and GCSEs in Maths
• Desirable: Experience of working in a school environment, ideally in specialist education.
• Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Good teaching and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Effective skills in planning, preparation, recording and reviewing students’ progress.
• Good IT skills and understand of how IT can be used to support learning.
• Ability to remain calm and reflective when working in a challenging environment.
• Proven ability to work on own initiative, be well organised, prioritise effectively and achieve results against deadlines.
• Ability to engage students in positive enabling relationships

Benefits and Additional Information

What’s on offer?

Be part of our successful team and benefit from a generous package that includes:

• Life assurance
• Teachers' Pension
• Full training and continued support
• Perkbox - offering high street discounts
• Employee assistance programme
• Car lease scheme
• Fully funded training and qualifications
• Staff wellbeing programme involving social events throughout the year
• Bike to work scheme
• Free parking
• Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.

If you are interested in this role, then please apply online and complete our application form. For more information on this position please contact kirsty.wilkinson@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.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.