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Senior Teacher - KS2

Senior Teacher - KS2

Unsted Park School and Sixth Form

Surrey

  • Expired
Salary:
Teacher Main Pay Scale + SEN allowance £2270
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2022
Apply by:
31 May 2022

Job overview

There is no better time to start a career within Teaching than now!

Would you like secure employment where you can progress your career?

If you would like to build a career that gives you genuine sense of achievement and fulfilment knowing that you can have a positive impact on the young people we support, then look no further and apply today!

Unsted Park are looking to recruit an outstanding Key Stage 2 Teacher to join our Teaching team with effect from 1st September 2022.

We are looking for an experienced and creative practitioner who has a real passion for teaching, learning and the curriculum, with a commitment to developing the whole child. You will also have the ability to lead and develop colleagues.

The position would suit an experienced Primary or Middle school teacher who would like the opportunity to further develop their leadership skills.

The successful candidate should demonstrate a range of skills and attributes including:

  • Being an outstanding practitioner with high expectations of themselves, all staff and pupils 
  • Have at least 3 years’ experience of Key stage 2, with teaching of Year 6 essential
  • High expectations in delivering high quality teaching and learning
  • A strong commitment to raising standards and developing an exciting broad and balanced curriculum
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and will build upon the well-established, positive relationships with children, staff, families and external partners

The successful appointee will join a supportive team with a wide range of skills and experience.

KS2 plays a key role in the School’s achievement and development, and the department is a driven and cohesive team who demand the best from each other and from their students. SEN / ASD experience is not a requirement but would be beneficial.

Our benefits include exclusive access to reward and discount scheme, comprehensive induction, commitment to your ongoing training and career progression, Teacher pension scheme, paid for enhanced DBS, wellbeing support, cycle to work scheme and more!

Unsted Park School is an established ASD specialist school, with a proven track record of continued success.  The school is rated by Ofsted as ‘Good’ (2019, 2020 and 2021 in school, residential and material change inspections) with the potential to be graded outstanding in its next inspection. It is a school in which we have a commitment to knowing every student and ensuring they fulfil their potential. That individualisation of education is vital to our provision and is what makes the school a special place in which to be a student, or to work. 

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. 

The successful candidate will be a qualified teacher and ideally have experience of teaching and supporting young people within SEN, along with the following characteristics:

Resilience – We support some of the most vulnerable children in society who have varying degrees of emotional behavioural difficulties, autism, ADHD and associated difficulties so there will be times where your resilience is challenged.  

Communication – Communicating with our young people is vital to understand their needs.  Good teamwork and communication plays a key part in ensuring important information is relayed to other staff.

Organisation – You will have experience of organising, planning and teaching well-structured lessons tailored to the needs of the pupils as well as monitoring each students learning needs, adapting teaching to respond to the strengths and needs of each pupil.

Caring – Our young people require the best care we can offer.  If you are a naturally caring and compassionate person, this is the role for you.

Attentive – No two tasks will be the same so being attentive to understand the needs of the young people we support is vital 

Above all, we provide a supportive and collaborative working environment where you can flourish in your career and feel incredibly rewarded by helping those who need it most.

If you want to progress your career in Education, Aspris Children’s Services will help you get there.

Aspris is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.  All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with Disclosure & Barring Service and at least 2 references which cover the last 3 years; for all our services we will request references from where you have worked with either Children or Vulnerable Adults.  Please be advised that references may be requested prior to interview for roles within our Schools.

About Unsted Park School and Sixth Form

Through our services at Unsted Park School and Sixth Form, we provide specialist education and care to young people aged 7 to 19 years with high functioning autism, Asperger Syndrome and associated disorders.

Set in the tranquil town of Godalming in Surrey, Unsted Park School offers day or weekly residential placements in a safe, healthy and stimulating environment for any child to learn and move positively onto the next stage of their life.

Ofsted comments include:

  • The schools work to promote pupils’ personal development and welfare is outstanding
  • Teachers are particularly skilled and have deep subject knowledge which they use to good effect to help students make good progress
  • Pupils benefit from a particularly well designed curriculum

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