SEN Teacher

Quay View School are looking to recruit an outstanding SEN Teacher to join our teaching team. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of Primary/Key Stage 2 pedagogy with the ability to diversify into upper school delivery. You will be an ambitious, energetic and committed teacher who will expand the learning experiences of our pupils. You will be teaching and supporting our young people who may have autism, emotional behavioural difficulties, ADHD and associated complex needs.

Our benefits include:

• Exclusive access to reward and discount scheme
• Comprehensive induction
• Blue Light Card
• Commitment to your ongoing training and career progression
• Teacher's Pension
• SEN allowance 
• Paid for enhanced DBS
• Wellbeing support
• Cycle to work scheme and more!

Aspris Children's Services, Devon & Cornwall, is made up of two schools, Quay View School (Bere Alston) and Tor View School Tavistock) and three children's homes based in Tavistock, Gunnislake and Oakhampton. We specialise in care and education of children and young people aged 7-19 with autism, learning difficulties, challenging behaviour and SEMH. The safeguarding and wellbeing of our young people who may have experienced challenges in their lives is always paramount; along with encouragement to achieve their full potential. 

Main responsibilities:

• Hold and articulate clear values and moral purpose focused on providing a world-class education for all pupils. 
• Demonstrate optimistic personal behaviour, positive relationships and attitudes towards pupils and colleagues, and towards parents and members of the local community. 
• Lead by example – with integrity, creativity, resilience, and clarity – drawing on own scholarship, expertise and skills, and that of those around them. 
• Sustain wide, current knowledge and understanding of education systems locally, nationally and globally, and pursue continuous professional development. 
• Work with political and financial astuteness, within a clear set of principles centred on the vision, ably translating local and national policy into the school context. 
• Communicate compellingly the vision and drive the strategic leadership, empowering all pupils and colleagues to excel. 
• Demand ambitious standards of achievement and attendance for all pupils, overcoming disadvantage and advancing equality, instilling a strong sense of accountability in employees for the impact of their work on pupils' outcomes. 
• Secure excellent teaching through an analytical understanding of how pupils learn and of the core features of successful classroom practice and curriculum design, leading to rich curriculum opportunities and pupils' wellbeing. 
• Establish an educational culture of "open classrooms" as a basis for sharing best practice within and between schools, drawing on and conducting relevant research and robust data analysis. 
• Ensure that all colleagues understand their role, so that they are able to undertake their duties and responsibilities to a consistently high standard in the normal course of their duties.

Please note that all candidates must already hold the right to work in the UK.

Due to the location and requirements of the school, you will ideally hold a UK driving license. 

As part of Aspris Children’s Services, we are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. We ask that you can demonstrate the values needed for a role, transferable skills and life experience and in return we will give you all the training and support you need to progress. 

We strongly believe in developing our own talent and growing our teachers into successful middle and senior leaders.