Job Description
Primary Teacher
Portland School (Trent Vale)
Salary: MPS/UPS + SEN1 (£28,000 - £43,685 + £2,270)
Working hours: Full Time, 32.5 hours per week
Contract type: Permanent
Portland School is a specialist provision for children and young people who experience social, emotional and mental health difficulties. Our school caters for pupils aged 5 to 16 across two sites, the primary provision is based in Trent Vale and secondary provision in Blythe Bridge.
Our governors are seeking to employ an experienced and highly professional teacher to work on our Primary site alongside a supportive, dedicated and enthusiastic staff team who are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our pupils.
Our school is at an exciting stage in its journey, where we have joined the Shaw Education Trust family and are developing our practise to provide the best education we can for our pupils.
This post is for a teacher for either Lower Key Stage 2 or Upper Key Stage 2. The teacher should be familiar and confident with adaptive teaching to reach learners of all abilities within the classroom.
Job Purpose
- To plan, prepare and teach learning activities for the specific needs of SEMH pupils.
- To asses and report on progress made across academic subjects and SEMH development.
- To lead and manage a Special Educational Needs support assistant within your classroom.
We are looking for someone who can
- build positive relationships and manage pupils’ behaviour effectively within a classroom environment.
- be proactive, resourceful and energetic.
- communicate effectively with students, colleagues and parents / carers.
- Demonstrate QTS.
We can offer
- a friendly, committed and motivated staff
- a positive learning environment with friendly children
- a supportive leadership team
- a commitment to your professional development and training
- the opportunity to be part of our journey of improvement within Shaw Education Trust
SHAW EDUCATION TRUST was established in 2014 and is sponsored by Shaw Trust and is a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life. Unlike other MATs, we don’t enforce a curriculum for all our schools to follow. Instead, we support each individual school to offer a programme that enables our students to deepen their knowledge, develop their skills, sparks their imagination and fires their curiosity.
To achieve this, we pledge an unswerving commitment to improve, accelerate and enable ambitious life goals amongst all our students, and provide our schools with the support they need to deliver the highest possible quality of education. Every action we take as a Trust is guided by our core values, with the best interest of our students and staff members at the heart of everything we do.
The Shaw Education Trust offer the following benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Access to health and wellbeing support via Occupational Health
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
Colleagues within the Trust benefit from:
- Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include all of the National Professional Qualifications – NPQH, NPQSL, NPQML.
- High quality subject and thematic networks across the Trust and the region.
- Experienced leadership and subject-specific support.
- Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
- Access to the Trust’s Teaching School, Research School, Institute of Education and SCITT.
- Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
- Participating in peer reviews.
- Access to a suite of online courses.
- Placement projects within our family of schools.
We would encourage potential candidates to visit the school to discuss the role with a member of our team. Please contact a member of our office team, who will be happy to arrange a visit time, see contact details below.
If you require any further information regarding the role, visit our school website or contact our school office:
https://portlandschool.net/job-vacancies
Helen Smith - Telephone: 01782 882020 option 2 - Email: portland@portlandschool.net
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Portland School and Specialist College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment, click here to review Safeguarding and Pupil Protection Policy https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/key-information
This position is subject to appropriate vetting procedures including a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions.
We are an Equal Opportunities employer and will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
In accordance with our safer recruitment policy CV’s alone will not be accepted.
Closing date for Applications: Tuesday 20thJune 2023 at 5pm
Interviews: 28thJune 2023
Start Date: September 2023 (October 2023 for the right candidate)
We reserve the right to appoint before the closing date, therefore, we encourage early applications.
Successful candidates will be subject to a fully Enhanced DBS check along with other relevant employment checks.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £28,000.00-£43,685.00 per year
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 6NS: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Licence/Certification:
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 20/06/2023
Expected start date: 04/09/2023