Special Education Needs Teacher - August 2022

Special Education Needs Teacher - August 2022

Due to continued expansion and growth Kings’ School Al Barsha is seeking an outstanding Primary SEN Teacher to join our thriving school from August 2022. This is a superb opportunity for an excellent classroom practitioner to provide purposeful and meaningful learning opportunities for children with learning difficulties, setting high expectations for pupils within a bespoke classroom. The drive is to cultivate a language-rich and exciting environment for pupils to make progress with a high focus on communication, interaction, and social skills, and emotional regulation.

The department is well resourced, with a multidisciplinary team of specialists, including a Head of Inclusion, dyslexia specialists, speech and language, behaviour and occupational therapists, an autism team, and a team of specialist learning support teachers and assistants.  As such this position represents a superb opportunity for an aspiring, imaginative and inspirational teacher to join a successful, kind and supportive team. You will join and be supported by a successful and highly creative faculty with exacting standards.

Requirements:

• British Secondary School trained including QTS
• Previous special needs classroom teaching experience - minimum 2 years
• Experience in managing a classroom and leading a small team of assistants
• Experience teaching students with Autism, Learning difficulties and significant communication difficulties. 
• Experienced in the use of TEACCH, PECS, Colourful semantics, and Makaton
• Ability to adapt curriculums to meet the needs of the individual child
• Ability to create a structured learning environment
• Ability to deliver creative learning activities and differentiate to individual needs
• Ability to create Individual Education Plans
• A clear personal philosophy of education
• Be an excellent communicator (written and verbal) with parents, students and colleagues with cultural sensitivity
• An understanding of how best to support and remove the barriers to learning for children with Social Communication Difficulties 
• Ability to understand and interpret the root causes of a range of challenging behaviours and to implement effective behaviour management strategies
• An excellent understanding of how to teach the acquisition of early Language and mathematical skills
• Commitment to inclusive education that meets the needs of the individual child
• Experienced in delivering and assessing ASDAN modules and Entry Level qualifications.

How to apply: Candidates are to apply directly through the TES portal.

Closing date for applications is 5th of June 2022. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview and the school reserves the right to appoint a suitable candidate before the final submission date.

Successful applicants will take up their position in mid-August 2022 and will be required to participate in a thorough programme of induction.

** Please note that this school takes safeguarding children very seriously and any offer of employment is subject to rigorous checks including verified passport copy, three satisfactory references, attestation of qualification certificates, and outcome of the DBS/police checks that, as a school, we request from all our staff.