Special Educational Needs Teacher
Kingsford Community School
Newham
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2014
- Apply by:
- 23 April 2014
Job overview
Special Educational Needs Teacher, Newham
This vibrant 11-16 school with a roll of 1,500 students has excellent facilities in all subject areas. Kingsford Community School is committed to high quality inclusive education for students of whom fifty per cent are multilingual. The school has achieved a range of nationally accredited awards and was rated by Ofsted in 2013 as Good with Outstanding Leadership and behaviour.
Governors are seeking to appoint an outstanding Special Needs Teacher from September 2014, or earlier if possible.The successful candidate will have appropriate SEN qualifications. Experience of conducting assessment of learning difficulties is essential to this role, as is planning appropriate curriculum provision and intervention programs for pupils with special needs. Experience of Dyslexia assessment and teaching dyslexic pupils is highly desirable, as is experience of supporting P-level pupils or pupils on the ASD spectrum.
Experience and qualifications to conduct Exams Access Assessment is also highly desirable. The successful candidate will support in successfully leading the school's provision for pupils with learning difficulties and make a wider contribution to whole-school improvement. The SEN curriculum area is an integral part of our wider support and intervention faculty.
- Can you demonstrate leadership in your role as a teacher in which you inspire, motivate, and innovate?
- Can you act independently as well as in a team?
As a teacher of pupils with learning difficulties, you will support the development of a whole-school ethos in which the raising of pupils' aspirations is central to your work on a day-to-day basis. The school community will need to see you as a highly effective leader who is able to lead by example through being an excellent practitioner. You will set the highest expectations for yourself and for others. You must be committed to ensuring that all pupils receive an outstanding educational experience in a school that is focused on raising performance at every level. NQT?s are welcome to apply.
We can offer:
- A committed and successful Leadership Team and SENCO
- Encouragement for innovation and creativity
- A supportive and collaborative environment and the opportunity to achieve significant career development as you prepare for further promotion.
- Previous experience of a role in an educational setting is essential. The successful candidate will have to meet the person specification in order to be offered the post and will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. Only applications submitted on the schools agreed application form will be considered.
Kingsford Community School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in accordance with DFE Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment regulations. The school expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
For any further information regarding this vacancy, please visit our website http://www.kingsfordschool.org.uk/ or email Almitra Sewell, Personnel Officer at: asewell@kingsford.newham.sch.uk or telephone on 020 7476 4700, ext. 213
Closing date: 23rd April 2014
Interview date: 30th April 2014
?Seeking excellence, success & opportunity in an inspiring community where students and learning come first?
A fully inclusive school in the heart of the redeveloping Docklands region of East London
Head Teacher Joan Deslandes MA
Attached documents
About Kingsford Community School
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About Kingsford Community School
Kingsford Community School is a diverse and vibrant coeducational secondary school that offers a unique and transformational education to its 1500 pupils in the heart of Beckton, East London.
Through the school’s International School and Confucius Classroom status and strategic partnerships that seek to raise standards at every turn, pupils are well equipped to excel and achieve their full potential.
Pupils are inspired within the classroom by a challenging yet accessible curriculum, stimulating teaching, outstanding pastoral care and the best in modern facilities. And yet the Kingsford learning experience goes well beyond the classroom, with exciting educational visits, international experiences, a varied cocurricular programme and community outreach projects.
At Kingsford, every pupil has the opportunity and support they need to aspire, succeed and excel as global citizens who make a difference in the world around them. They are strong communicators, responsible citizens and ambitious achievers who carry a strong sense of value with them for life. As Ofsted have stated, “pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is outstanding. They develop into mature and reflective young adults who show a strong sense of responsibility and a genuine concern for others.”
Headteacher
Joan Deslandes OBE
Values and Vision
At Kingsford Community School, pupils are taught, motivated and nurtured to aspire, succeed and be excellent. To support our pupils in this mission, we advocate and uphold the FIRST values (Focus, Integrity, Respect, Self-Determination and Teamwork).
Kingsford Community School is a place for excellence, achievement and progress. We are committed to enabling our pupils to realise their potential through the provision of exciting opportunities which help them to develop their talent. All staff work towards setting achievable targets for pupils and regularly review them, in order for each individual to observe and learn from their tangible progress and move forwards to even greater accomplishments. Our academic results consistently improve due to our ambitious and dedicated staff, the hard work of pupils and the support of their parents.
Kingsford is a place for equality. Equality is at the core of everything we do, and is something we passionately seek to drive forward at every opportunity. As a school we are strengthened by the many nationalities and cultures represented and we seek to respect and celebrate them all. We are a diverse and inclusive family of kindness where no child is left behind, and where everyone is actively engaged and feels they belong and contribute. Our curriculum, policies, and staff professional development seek to ensure that every single member of the community feels welcome and supported to thrive.
Kingsford is also a place for partnership. Staff and pupils benefit from links with schools in the UK and abroad, and regularly receives a number of distinguished visitors from across the world. The school contributes to and benefits from partnerships that ensure the best in teaching and learning, such as SSAT and TEEP, and is committed to the continued professional development of all its staff.
Kingsford is a place that transcends the classroom. A dominant aspect of the school’s ethos is committed to the provision of a full range of extra-curricular activities, particularly in: sport, debating, drama, music and computing. For us, learning does not stop when the bell goes. Pupils enjoy access to a vast array of learning resources, and carry a strong sense of belonging and value that shapes their future as culturally conscious individuals.
Ofsted report
“The school is a harmonious community in which everyone lives and breathes the school’s values of aspiration, achievement and excellence. Helped by an outstanding curriculum, enriched by many opportunities to attend extra clubs and classes, and by strong partnerships and international links, students develop confidence in themselves and their abilities and are well prepared for their adult lives. Teachers make lessons interesting, challenging and enjoyable. They are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about their subjects. Students enjoy coming to school. Their behaviour is outstanding, their attendance is good, they want to learn and they work hard in their lessons.”
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