Teacher of SEN – Skills Development Provision (Specialist Enhanced Mainstream Provision)

Interview date: Tuesday 7 May 2024

Are you a skilled primary or SEND teacher who would be excited to bring your talents to a well-resourced secondary school setting?

Do you have the interest and motivation to teach young people with moderate and complex SEND needs?

Does the opportunity to contribute to a bespoke curriculum provision to meet these needs enthuse you?

Are you able to plan imaginative and practical lessons that allow the flexibility to meet the ever-changing needs of these students?

Are you seeking an opportunity to teach in a unique SEND setting within a successful secondary school?

If the answer is yes, we would be delighted to receive an application from you.

Wilmslow High School is seeking to appoint an inspirational and experienced teacher for a temporary maternity contract for one academic year.

The candidate will believe that every child is most likely to achieve their full potential when nurtured and challenged in an adaptive, creative and high-expectation learning environment. The desire to make a difference for our students will be seen in the candidate’s passion, drive and enthusiasm for high-expectation for learning and in their ability to teach students who face the greatest challenges with learning.

The successful candidate will work alongside the SEND Teachers and Learning Support Assistants to help raise the attainment of key groups of students. They will be required to teach a group of students with learning, physical and medical needs, ensuring they have access to a well-devised, creative and ambitious curriculum. The curriculum must ne engaging and focus on basic numeracy, literacy and much-needed life skills.

The successful candidate will:

·        Be an excellent teacher with experience of the primary curriculum and/or small-steps teaching

·        Have good knowledge and experience of teaching students with complex SEND needs

·        Demonstrate their ability to build positive working relationships with all types of student, in particular low-prior attaining and ‘hard to reach’ students

·        Have knowledge of the EHCP review system and setting achievable and measurable targets.

·        Have the resolve and tenacity to make a real difference to the performance of students

·        Have a proven record of raising attainment for disadvantaged students, low-prior attaining students and ‘hard to reach’ students

·        Enjoy working collaboratively to plan effective curriculum sequences for a range of groups

·        Be committed to an ethos of high expectations and the belief that every child can succeed

Young people only get one chance at education; therefore, at Wilmslow High School we are committed to the pursuit of excellence for every student, every day. We do this through our dedication to learning, by being guided by values and in striving to serve.

We endeavour to preserve a happy and caring environment that is rooted in our core values, and in which staff and students can flourish, whilst challenging ourselves to pursue excellence for all our students. The school is set in extensive grounds, ideally positioned between the thriving city of Manchester and the open countryside of the Peak District.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to respect this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

You may also be interested in our currently advertised role for Reading Lead details of which can also be found on TES and on our website.