Lead SEND/SPLD Teacher

Lead SEND / SPLD Teacher MPS/Upper Pay Scale (Inner London scale) + SEN Points 2 (£4,116) 

For candidates with relevant and suitable qualifications /experience   From September 2017   

● Are you passionate about enabling all pupils to succeed? 

● Do you want to work in a school where we ask every day ‘what is the best way to do this?’ 

● Are you committed to constantly learning more about how to be a better teacher and manager? 

● Is your own teaching at least consistently good, and do you have the skills and knowledge to help others develop their teaching? 

● Do you believe that non-selective schools can provide as high quality an education as any other school in the country? 

● Are you resilient, imaginative, thoughtful, conscientious and determined? 

● Do you treat staff and students the way that you expect to be treated yourself?   

Lister is a large inclusive secondary school. We have a resourced provision for hearing impaired students and also a dedicated suite of small classrooms and office space to support a significant number of students with more complex SEND, who are taught largely in small groups with personalised curricula. We have a large and dedicated Inclusion Faculty staffed by SEND specialists.   

As part of our inclusion team, we are seeking a talented, imaginative and motivated Lead SEND/ SPLD Teacher who can play an important role in further developing our Inclusion Faculty and also developing provision for students with SEND in mainstream through providing assessment for exams access arrangements, support for students in mainstream with SPLD, and supporting mainstream teachers to implement Assess, Plan, Do, Review.    

Applicants should be outstanding classroom practitioners with an extensive knowledge of how to the raise the attainment of students with a range of SEND including for those with more complex needs and those with SPLD.  This role will suit someone who has experience of teaching students with SEND either in a mainstream or special school setting and who is a qualified assessor for exams access arrangements.   

You will be joining a school that can offer the following: 

● Enthusiastic students with high learning expectations 

● Excellent behaviour, providing a respectful community 

● A dedicated and committed team of staff who provide outstanding pastoral care and guidance for our students 

● A mutually respectful ethos that demonstrates a genuinely inclusive attitude towards the needs of students within a Newham comprehensive school 

● A commitment to quality professional development   

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.  This appointment will be conditional on successful pre-employment, health and enhanced DBS checks.  Further details and an application form can be downloaded directly from the Lister Website:  http://www.lister.newham.sch.uk/vacancies or by contacting Jackie Young, HR Manager, on 020 8471 3311.  All replies to be returned to the school at the above address or by email to: jobs@lister.newham.sch.uk

Closing date and time: 12.30pm Friday 3rd March 2017 

Interview dates: Wednesday 8th March 2017   

We will acknowledge receipt of all application forms. If you do not receive acknowledgement, please do not assume that your application form has been received. We will only be contacting those candidates who have been selected to progress to the next stage of the process.