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Parkwood Hall Co-operative Academy

Kent

  • Expired
Salary:
Mains Scale, UPS, Post -Threshold ( fringe) + SEN payment
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
Easter 2019
Apply by:
19 December 2018

Job overview

Parkwood Hall Co-operative Academy


JOB DESCRIPTION


Job Title: ASD / SLD Class Teacher

Department: Whole School

Grade: MPS / UPS + SEN Allowance 

Responsible to: Deputy Principal 


Purpose of the Job: 

• Plan, implement and review learning opportunities for a class group, ensuring pupils make good progress


Dimensions:  

• Students:

• Pupils within class group

• Other pupils with key stage, via stage planning

• Staff:

• Leadership of support staff in relation to class based activities

• Financial:

• Class based finance, bidding for equipment


MISSION STATEMENT


‘Parkwood Hall Co-operative Academy aims to provide a caring and safe environment with a specialised and holistic approach to education, allowing each individual to reach their maximum potential and to prepare them for life outside school.’

“Parkwood Hall Co-operative Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment”. The Governing Body


Main duties and responsibilities (Accountabilities):

1. Provide teaching and learning opportunities that are consistently at least good for all pupils

2. Lead and manage all support staff within the class group so that staff feel well supported, trained and perform their roles at the highest level

3. Monitor and improve the quality of teaching and learning within the class group leading to improved rates of pupil progress

4. Provide an outstanding personal and professional role model for all staff in line with the Teachers Standards

5. Ensure all staff within the class group implement all school policies and procedures leading to effective safeguarding of pupils in all aspects of school life

6. To take part in self-evaluation and performance management processes that will provide the evidence to support these accountabilities as well as the data the school will require for school self-evaluation purposes

7. Be a reflective practitioner and take account of the school’s strategic vision to develop own self

8. Have the ability to analyse pupil progress data in a variety of formats

9. Ensuring that the environment is safe and secure, meeting the needs of the curriculum, staff, pupils, visitors and Health & Safety regulations

10. Ensuring effective communications within the whole school community

11. Be an active member of a range of school based activities


Scope for Impact: 

• Increase rates of pupil progress.

• Improve the quality of Teaching so that the percentage of Outstanding Teaching increases.


Job Context: 

• The post holder will report directly to the relevant Cluster Lead.


General responsibilities:

• To maintain confidentiality in all aspects of Parkwood Hall Co-operative Academy. The nature of the working environment entrusts people with confidential information. Any breach of this confidentiality will constitute gross misconduct

• To co-operate with all Parkwood Hall Co-operative Academy staff in maintaining good relationships with outside agencies and the general public in order to promote and uphold the school’s image

• To perform any other duties as are within the scope, spirit and purpose of the position as requested by the Principal

• This job description reflects the current requirements of the post. As duties and responsibilities change and develop the job description will be reviewed and is subject to amendment in consultation with the post holder

                                                                        

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Qualifications:

• Qualified Teacher Status

Experience:

• Evidence of classroom teaching that is good to outstanding

• Proven ability of leading class teams

• Experience of teaching pupils with profound, severe and complex needs

Skills & Abilities:

• Evidence of effective classroom practice with pupils with profound, severe and complex needs

• Able to demonstrate the ability to use technology to support pupil’s learning and for administration purposes

• Awareness of successful strategies to support pupil communication through early literacy, numeracy and personal development

• Experience in assessment for learning

• An empathetic colleague who identifies the need for support and then takes discreet but appropriate action

• A high level of commitment to school development, improvement and inclusive practice

• The ability to set clear expectations and parameters and hold others accountable for performance

• Ability to use data to analyse pupil progress

• The ability to build and manage relationships constructively with a wide range of pupils, adults and professionals

• Very well developed personal organization skills in order to meet the many and varied elements of the role

• The ability to lead and work as a member of a team in a variety of roles

• Emotional maturity and resilience

• Consistency under pressure

• Ability to use authority and able to respond appropriately


Attached documents

About Parkwood Hall Co-operative Academy

Mission Statement: growth through personal and social development

Parkwood Hall Special Needs School converted to a Co-operative Academy in 2015 to secure our independent future, having first become Foundation Trust School in 2014. We are now in the fortunate position of owning our buildings and the 78 acres of wood and parkland in which our school is set on the outskirts of Swanley. 

We are ideally situated just off the junction of the M25 and the M20 and are able to offer both day and residential places to students from the London Boroughs, Kent and the South East of England. Our places are in demand and we are currently over-subscribed. We have the capacity to increase the number of places offered through careful planning and development.

Our school admits children with significant learning disabilities and a variety of additional needs. Although we are improving the accessibility of our buildings and grounds, we are not yet able to fully meet the needs of students who rely on wheels for their mobility. Our small classes of around 6-8 students mostly learn in large classrooms in the main building with plenty of opportunity for outdoor learning, and access to our two Forest School sites. We employ a diverse team of therapists who work with our teachers to accelerate learning. All our students benefit from a free school lunch, cooked on site by our catering team.

Our buildings are mainly Victorian, we started out as a Convalescent Home in 1892, with a market garden growing produce for the residents, and the original house in the grounds becoming the Nurses’ Home. Some of our staff currently live on site here now. We also have a boarding house in the grounds and a gatehouse, as well as many other outhouses, and even a derelict old laundry deep in the woods!

Our calm nurturing ethos, and our well supported staff create a great environment in which to learn. Our Ofsted judgements are good and our parents are our strongest supporters. Here are some quotes from the latest parental survey:

“The school meets his needs, and has allowed him to calm down, know he is safe, and start to

grow into the young man I am so proud of today.”

“It has literally been the happiest he has ever been in school. This has had such a positive effect

on him and on us as a family as a whole, helping to keep us together. “

“The first time I have not had to worry about him when he is not with family, because Parkwood had become a second family to him. “

“We have daily contact book and PEP, school review and phone contact”

“My daughter is respected and well looked after by every member of staff”

Whilst we are a stand alone Academy we take our co-operative values very seriously. They are Self-Responsibility, Self-Help, Equality, Solidarity, Democracy, and Equity. In addition, our ethical values are Honesty, Openness, Social Responsibility and Caring for Others. We are on the look out for ways in which we can co-operate for educational and social purpose.
 

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