Learning Support Teacher
Surbiton High School
Kingston upon Thames
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2014
- Apply by:
- 6 May 2014
Job overview
Contract type: Term-time only - Part or Full time
Surbiton High School seeks a motivated, committed and qualified SpLD Learning Support Teacher to work in our well-established and highly successful Learning Support Department.
Surbiton High School is a friendly and vibrant community where people matter, results count and where a passion for excellence drives everything we do. Our inspirational Educational Support Staff are the backbone of the School, and are dedicated to supporting our aim of creating an intellectually rigorous and challenging academic environment - a place where a passion and energy abound, a school with a real heart and soul, and where every pupil and staff member can flourish.
The successful candidate will:
- Be a dynamic, enthusiastic classroom practitioner with a clear sense of purpose and high expectations.
- Have knowledge and experience working with children with specific learning disabilities and children from diverse cultural backgrounds
- Be familiar with the needs and accommodations for students with learning differences, including:
-Dyslexia
-Dyscalculia
-Organizational difficulties
-Attention difficulties
Full job details and the Surbiton High School application form are available below and on our website, http://www.surbitonhigh.com/603/recruitment
Closing Date for Applications: Midday Tuesday 6th May 2014
Interviews: Week of Tuesday 6th May 2014
Please note that Surbiton High School reserves the right to appoint at any stage during the recruitment process. Surbiton High School is a member of United Learning, Charity Number 1016538 and is an equal opportunity employer. Surbiton High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all who work here to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure.
Surbiton High School
Surbiton Crescent
Kingston-upon-Thames
Surrey KT1 2JT
Tel: 020 8546 5245
Email: cara.edwards@surbitonhigh.com
Website: www.surbitonhigh.com
About Surbiton High School
- Surbiton High School
- 13-15 Surbiton Crescent, Kingston upon Thames
- Surrey
- KT1 2JT
- United Kingdom
Surbiton High School aims to inspire, encourage and empower its staff and pupils to be the very best they can be.
We are a school where a passion and energy abound, a school with a real heart and soul, where we look beyond the A* to offer a breadth of opportunity which allows every pupil to flourish and every staff member to develop and succeed.
Surbiton High School is a school “brimming with energy and joie de vivre.” (ISI Inspection Report). We pride ourselves on being an extraordinary community where people matter, results count and where a passion for excellence drives everything we do. We feed our pupils’ minds, but we also care passionately about their character development and happiness. Our approach to education means that Surbiton High School pupils achieve the very best exam results and are also compassionate, authentic young people with strong values, keen to make a positive difference in the world.
Our inspirational staff are dedicated to delivering a rich curriculum and programme of co-curricular activities which challenge our pupils to explore ideas for themselves. Whether engaged in learning in the classroom, or through musical, artistic, sporting, enterprise or charitable activities, our pupils are constantly encouraged to connect with the wider world and embrace new experiences to build their confidence. All staff are expected and encouraged to play a full part in the academic, co-curricular and pastoral life of the School.
At Surbiton High School, we aim to bring out the ‘Best in Everyone’, and this resonates in the investment that we make in our colleagues. We recognise the importance of continuous learning and training and the School has a senior member of staff dedicated to supporting continuing professional development. We have a comprehensive whole School and individual INSET programme in place, including support for School Direct trainees as well as Newly Qualified Teachers (in our role as a regional NQT induction centre).
We actively encourage our staff to continue to develop their own expertise in the classroom and support their professional development through coaching and mentoring alongside professional qualifications such as: NPQML, NPQSL and MA courses in educational leadership. The School has a clearly developed leadership structure, offering extensive opportunities for career development and progression, including Heads of Department (Including Deputies) and Heads of Year (including Deputies) as well as Co-ordinators with specific responsibilities such as: Gifted and Talented, Oxbridge, Duke of Edinburgh and Expeditions.
Surbiton High School has approximately 1600 pupils aged between 4 and 18. Our Preparatory Schools are divided into the Girls’ Preparatory School and Boys’ Preparatory School, and the Senior School is girls only from age 11 upwards.
We are looking for applicants who are passionate about inspiring, encouraging and empowering our pupils and working with us to become the number one school of choice in South West London.
Principal
Rebecca Glover
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