SEN Class Teacher - Maths
Aurora Hedgeway School
England
- £32,916 - £45,352 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- (M1 – M6)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 02 February 2026
- Apply by:
- 29 January 2026
Job overview
Overview and Responsibilities
SEN Class Teacher – Hedgeway
Location: Pilning, Bristol, BS35 4JN
Salary: £32,916 - £45,352 (M1 – M6)
Hours: 40 hours per week
Contract: Full time - permanent
Aurora Hedgeway is a dynamic and inspiring provision for children and young people aged 7-19 with a primary or secondary diagnosis of Autism and related social and communication needs.
The Aurora Group
The Aurora Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.
We are currently looking for an experienced Full Time Teacher for our Aurora Hedgeway School. The school supports young people aged 7 - 19 with a primary or secondary diagnosis of Autism and related social and communication needs.
We offer life skills and a wide range of GCSE/ Functional Skills/BTEC accreditations alongside a functional skills/entry level pathway. Behaviours across the school are excellent.
Experience of teaching Maths at KS3/KS4 and/or experience of delivering GCSE, entry level and functional skills maths and English, or any other accreditation is essential.
The Role
We are looking for an inspirational and engaging Secondary Class Teacher, with whole school Maths responsibility, to deliver high quality teaching and learning to children and young people with autism and complex needs such as ADHD, OCD and PDA, who may present with challenging behaviours associated with their autism. Some pupils may have multiple learning difficulties.
Your role will be to provide high quality teaching that will enable pupils to make progress not just academically but socially and emotionally. You must be creative and have high expectations. An understanding of ASC would is essential to support the planning and delivery of a broad and balanced curriculum to enable our pupils to achieve their full potential in all areas.
To facilitate this, you’ll plan and deliver lessons that support young people achieving accreditation on a variety of academic pathways. You will be able to support the young people to be independent and resilient learners both in and outside of the classroom.
You’ll supervise and provide support and guidance to our Teaching Assistants and Higher Level Teaching Assistants and play a key role in their Professional Development Reviews.
Naturally, you will take responsibility for implementing school policies and practices, including those relating to safeguarding and equality of opportunity. Additionally; you will also be expected to carefully monitoring the health, well-being and personal care of our pupils; informing Pastoral/clinical/ SEND support teams and any other relevant professionals of any concerns.
Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required.
Skills and Qualifications
Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:
Qualified Teacher status
Experience in achieving outstanding outcomes
Thorough working knowledge of the curriculum and how to adapt this for pupils with SEN
Experience of working with young people with ASD
Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedures
Ability to create and maintain strong nurturing relationships with young people
Experience of managing a range of approaches to learning, to include the students with anxiety.
Knowledge of strategies and visual teaching methods to engage reluctant learners.
A flexible approach, a high level creativity and the ability to adapt teaching to meet individual needs
Experience of managing a small team of teaching assistants.
Benefits and Additional Information
What’s on offer?
Training and Development
Within Aurora, we strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people we support. We offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all our employees to improve your skills and further your career.
Save money on your bills!!
With the cost of living rising we have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further. Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are. You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more. You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme.
Competitive Pay and Reward
Every year we compare the market rates of pay and rewards to ensure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations. We also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Pension and Life Assurance.
UK Health Cash Plan
This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills. You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.
Employee Assistance Programme
Your health and wellbeing is very important to us and we have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7.
Refer a friend for £1,000
We’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)
Please complete an online application form in full, remembering to include all employment and education details.
* Within Aurora we support teacher professional development by offering Upper Pay Scale both to teachers joining the company and through our internal professional development and performance management process.
To be offered a role on Upper Pay Scale we will expect you to:
provide evidence that you are already receiving an Upper Pay Scale salary.
Hold specific allocated responsibility, once you have completed your induction, that contributes to whole school improvement including the overall raising of standards in the school and demonstrate their ongoing commitment to their own CPD.
Details of the relevant area of responsibility will be discussed with you at interview and further when you join the company.
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.
Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.
Attached documents
About Aurora Hedgeway School
Aurora Hedgeway School
Welcome to our Special Needs School in Pilning, Gloucestershire
At Aurora Hedgeway, we offer every student the chance to explore and fulfil their own unique potential. With provision running from Key Stage 2 all the way through to post-16, we are set up to support children and young people at every stage of their academic journey.
Our broad and balanced curriculum is designed by ‘stage’ rather than ‘age’, allowing each student to learn alongside others with similar skills and abilities, while our focus on social and emotional support helps our students to develop both confidence and independence. By the time they leave us, our students are ready to tackle the next challenges of adulthood – whether that’s through further education, training or employment.
We look forward to welcoming you into our school community soon.
Klaire Rowland, Headteacher - Aurora Hedgeway School
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