SEN Teacher (Science Specialist)
Lister Community School
Newham
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/Upper Pay Scale (Inner London scale)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2015
- Apply by:
- 18 May 2015
Job overview
+ SEN Point 2 (£3954) for candidates with relevant and suitable qualifications/experience
One of the 100 Most Improved Schools in the Country (DfE, January 2014)
- Are you passionate about enabling all pupils to succeed?
- Do you want to work in a school where we ask every day ‘what is the best way to do this?’
- Are you committed to constantly learning more about how to be a better teacher and manager?
- Is your own teaching at least consistently good, and do you have the skills and knowledge to help others develop their teaching?
- Do you believe that non-selective schools can provide as high quality an education as any other school in the country?
- Are you resilient, imaginative, thoughtful, conscientious and determined?
- Do you treat staff and students the way that you expect to be treated yourself?
As part of our inclusion team, we are seeking a talented, imaginative and motivated SEN (Science Specialist) Teacher who can play an important role in further developing our large Inclusion Faculty.
Applicants should be outstanding classroom practitioners with an extensive knowledge of how to the raise the attainment of students with complex needs.
Lister has been through rapid change in the last three years and a key challenge over the next two years is to ensure that all pupils, including those with SEN, benefit from high quality teaching and support, and that we support them in developing their skills to achieve this.
This role will suit someone who has either experience of or a keen interest in SEN ether in a mainstream or special school setting.
You will be joining a school that can offer the following:
- Enthusiastic students with high learning expectations
- Excellent behaviour, providing a respectful community
- A dedicated and committed team of staff who provide outstanding pastoral care and guidance for our students
- A mutually respectful ethos that demonstrates a genuinely inclusive attitude towards the needs of students within a Newham comprehensive school
- A commitment to quality professional development
Please read the attached Mission Statement and Ethos document, and if you share our values and think that this sounds like a role that you can fill, email jobs@lister.newham.sch.uk for an application pack. The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. This appointment will be conditional on successful pre-employment, health and enhanced CRB checks. Further details and an application form can be downloaded directly from the Lister Website: http://www.lister.newham.sch.uk/vacancies or by contacting Beryl King (Office Manager) on 020 8471 3311. All replies to be returned to the school at the above address or by email to: jobs@lister.newham.sch.uk
Closing date and time: 10.30am Monday 18th May 2015
Interview dates: Wednesday 20th May 2015
Attached documents
About Lister Community School
Lister Community School is situated in Plaistow, East London, approximately 10 mins walk from Plaistow and Upton Park Underground stations. We are also in close proximity to the new Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and Westfield (Stratford) shopping centre. Please note we have no parking available onsite.
We are a specialist school in Music and Science. We are a mixed comprehensive secondary school and welcome both students and staff from a diverse multicultural background. With over 1,600 students, we are a larger than average school in the London Borough of Newham. The school benefits from being located in new and purpose built accommodation on a single site with ample outdoor areas and the use of an all-weather sports pitch.
The school is led by a team of senior leaders who are enthusiastic and experienced and, alongside all staff, share a positive and united vision for the school’s future. With an improved curriculum, vertical tutoring and house systems, Lister provides a well rounded and balanced experience for students.
Resource Provision for Deaf Children: Lister Community School hosts the Resourced Provision for secondary aged Deaf children in Newham. Specialist staff support students using a variety of communication modes such as BSL, SSE and Auditory Oral. Deaf students are taught alongside their hearing peers in mainstream classes for the majority of their lessons. The Deaf Support Department is made up of a large team of Communication Support Workers and Qualified Teachers of the Deaf who work with the deaf students in mainstream classes as well as small groups and 1:1. Deaf students may also have access to Deaf Awareness sessions and pre and post teaching.
Newham Community Learning: Our school is part of Newham Community Learning, which exists in order to provide an excellent education for all young people in our community. We are the only Trust to offer all-through provision from ages 2 - 16 within a single family of schools in Newham. Across our two primary and four secondary schools, all located in the west of the borough, we educate over 5,400 local children and young people, and employ a team of close to 700 members of staff, the vast majority of whom live locally.
To view opportunities at all our schools, please see our Trust page on TES.
Train with us - we are delighted to partner with Teach First to deliver our School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) programme. Teach First is a national charity that develops and supports teachers and leaders who are determined to make a difference where it is needed the most. As a training partner, we will be working with Teach First to deliver this one year teacher training programme, which enables participants to train and develop skills in the classroom. It is ideal for people who are eager to learn on the job and make a difference in their community from day one. Our Newham Community Learning SCITT Booklet has further information; please email traintoteach@ncltrust.net to find out more.
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