SEN Teacher

SEN Teacher  required for The Bridge Satellites Provision – part of The Bridge London Trust,  Primary Site

Salary Grade: Teacher Pay Scale + SEN allowance -  Permanent Contract & Fixed Term Contracts Available from February  2022

Are you an exceptional teacher looking for your next career move? The Bridge Satellite Provision would like to hear from you! 

We are a fun, innovative, and specialist school based in Islington and looking for a Primary teacher who is:  Positive and creative, with a flexible approach to teaching.  Forward-thinking, inspirational and receptive to change .  An excellent teacher with a successful track record of impacting positively upon student wellbeing and progress .  Able to respond to challenging behaviour with sensitivity and resilience.

Our story:

The Bridge Satellite Free School opened its Primary Provision in September 2017 and its Secondary site in 2018. The school consists of two bases that are linked to mainstream partner schools, to enable opportunities for inclusion. 

We are a provision for pupils with autism and follow key areas of the National Curriculum alongside a bespoke curriculum tailored to the individual needs of pupils.

We are still at the beginning of our journey, and so we are constantly striving to develop and build on the learning opportunities we provide our students. With this in mind, we are looking to find hardworking and resilient teachers to help us deliver this vision. 

In return, we can offer you:  Excellent professional development opportunities linked with Outreach and the Trust .  A chance to help define the school and progress your career .  A supportive community and a committed team of staff that are equally determined to give students the best possible opportunities .

Find out more:  We strongly encourage applicants to visit us and we are happy to be flexible with visiting times. If you have the requisite skills and would like to find out more, please contact our administration officer on 07525910224.  Please return your completed application form together with equal opportunities form to:  recruitment@thebridgetrust.academy  

Please note CVs will not be accepted.  Applications will be considered on receipt – don’t wait until the deadline!  As we have the right to close earlier.  Closing date: Monday 31st January at Midnight / Interviews  - tbc

Job Description - Main responsibilities 

Relationships with children and young people 

• Have high expectations of children and young people including a commitment to ensuring that they can achieve their full educational potential and to establishing fair, respectful, trusting, supportive and constructive relationships with them.

• Hold positive values and attitudes and adopt high standards of behaviour in their professional role.

Frameworks 

• Maintain an up-to-date knowledge and understanding of the professional duties of teachers and the statutory framework within which they work, and contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of the policies and practice of their workplace, including those designed to promote equality of opportunity.

Communicating and working with others 

• Communicate effectively with children, young people and colleagues.

• Communicate effectively with parents and carers, conveying timely and relevant information about attainment, objectives, progress and well-being.

• Recognise that communication is a two-way process and encourage parents and carers to participate in discussions about the progress, development and well-being of children and young people.

• Recognise and respect the contributions that colleagues, parents and carers can make to the development and well-being of children and young people, and raising their levels of attainment.

• Have a commitment to collaboration and co-operative working where appropriate

Personal and professional development

• Evaluate their performance and be committed to improving their practice through appropriate professional development.

• Have a creative and constructively critical approach towards innovation; being prepared to adapt their practice where benefits and improvements are identified.

• Act upon advice and feedback and be open to coaching and mentoring.

Professional knowledge and understanding

Teaching and learning

• Have a good, up-to-date working knowledge and understanding of a range of teaching, learning and behaviour management strategies and know how to use and adapt them, including how to personalise learning to provide opportunities for all learners to achieve their potential.

Assessment and monitoring

• Know a range of approaches to assessment, including the importance of formative assessment.

• Know how to use local and national statistical information to evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching, to monitor the progress of those they teach and to raise levels of attainment.

• Know how to use reports and other sources of external information related to assessment in order to provide learners with accurate and constructive feedback on their strengths, weaknesses, attainment, progress and areas for development, including action plans for improvement.

Subjects and curriculum

• Have a secure knowledge and understanding of the curriculum areas and related pedagogy.

• Know and understand the relevant statutory and non-statutory curricula and frameworks

Literacy, numeracy and ICT

• Know how to use skills in literacy, numeracy and ICT to support their teaching and wider professional activities.

Achievement and Diversity

• Understand how children and young people develop and how the progress, rate of development and well-being of learners are affected by a range of developmental, social, religious, ethnic, cultural and linguistic influences.

• Know how to make effective personalised provision for those they teach, including those for whom English is an additional language or who have special educational needs or disabilities, and how to take practical account of diversity and promote equality and inclusion in their teaching.

• Understand the roles of colleagues with specific expertise

• Know when to draw on the expertise of colleagues.

Health and well-being

• Know the current legal requirements, national policies and guidance on the safeguarding and promotion of the well-being of children and young people.

• Know the local arrangements concerning the safeguarding of children and young people.

• Know how to identify potential child abuse or neglect and follow safeguarding procedures.

• Know how to identify and support children and young people whose progress, development or well-being is affected by changes or difficulties in their personal circumstances, and when to refer them to colleagues for specialist support.

Professional skills

Planning

• To take an active part in whole-school development planning.

• Plan for progression across the age and ability range they teach, designing effective learning sequences within lessons and across series of lessons informed by secure subject/curriculum knowledge.

• Design opportunities for learners to develop their literacy, numeracy, ICT and thinking and learning skills appropriate within their phase and context