SEN English Teacher

SEN English Teacher

Location: Aurora Cedars, Wolverhampton

Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent

Hours: Full-time, 40 hours per week

Salary: M1 – UPS2

Closing Date: 20th June 2023

The Aurora Group

The Aurora Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities.

As part of our growth strategy; we’re really pleased to be opening a brand new Primary and Secondary ASC/SEMH school in 2023 in Wolverhampton with a proposed capacity of 80 students aged between 5-19.

We are currently looking for an English Teacher to join us in September 2023/November 2023, dependant on availability. Over the last 12 months the new school building has been redeveloped; and work has been done to design the look and feel of the school to ensure it fulfils its potential of an amazing learning environment with the facilities to allow students to access a varied curriculum in a calm and nurturing environment with a team that strives to give every student the confidence and opportunities to achieve.

The curriculum is creative and personalised for the pupils to ensure that we provide them with the best opportunities to succeed. 

The Headteacher is looking for fun, passionate, dedicated, and driven staff to help support her vision for the pupils and the school environment. She is committed to offering a truly unique workplace environment, embedded with a supportive culture, positive ethos, strong teamwork, and personal drive, with further career opportunities as both the school and Aurora, as a company, grows.    

It is an exciting time to be part of Aurora and this is a unique career opportunity to make your mark on our growing services.

The main purpose of the role:

As our Class Teacher; your role will be to provide high quality, challenging and differentiated educational activities and experiences through the teaching of a broad and balanced curriculum to enable our pupils to achieve their full potential in all areas of learning.

To facilitate this, you’ll plan and deliver lessons according to DFE guidance and the school’s policies and be responsible for the day to day running of the class and other relevant aspects of the running of the school.

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 care/medical/behavioural support teams and any other relevant professionals of any concerns. 

Key duties:

• Deliver the curriculum as prescribed by our schemes of work.
• Effectively plan lessons that are stimulating, relevant and well-structured to a wide range of abilities and communication needs to ensure all students are able to participate and reach their full potential.
• Work with the Head Teacher and other members of the leadership team to ensure the successful delivery of the vision, ethos, aims and objectives of the School.
• Deliver the ethos of the school and the educational vision and direction which enables effective teaching and support, successful learning and achievement by students and sustained improvement in their spiritual, moral, social, cultural, mental and physical well-being in preparation for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.
• Deliver effective teaching and learning and monitor and evaluate the quality of teaching support and standards of students’ achievement, using benchmarks and setting targets for improvement.
• Monitor, evaluate and review practice in the classroom and implement strategies to ensure that under-performance is challenged and appropriate changes to practice are implemented.
• Participate in the recruitment and retention of the best employees and ensure an effective induction for all new starters.
• Work in partnership with all school staff, parents, carers and other agencies in providing for the academic, spiritual, moral, social, emotional and cultural well-being of students and their families. 

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

Skills and Qualifications

Experience and Qualifications: 

• Qualified Teacher status
• Desirable but not essential, knowledge and experience of the KS4 curriculum and examinations
• Thorough working knowledge of the curriculum and how to adapt this for pupils with SEN
• Desirable, experience of working with young people with ASD and SEMH
• Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedure
• Ability to create and maintain 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 important
• A flexible approach and a high level creativity

Benefits and Additional Information

What’s on offer?

• Full training and continued support
• Life assurance and pension
• Health cash back plan
• Car lease scheme
• Bike to work scheme 
• Perk box - discounts off hundreds of high street retailers and restaurants 
• Free parking

For more information on this position please contact Karen on 07920 223 415 or via email at karen.barnfield@the-aurora-group.com 

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

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