Teacher of Literacy and Numeracy (& Assistant SENCO responsibility for a suitable candidate)

Teacher of Literacy and Numeracy (& Assistant SENCO responsibility for a suitable candidate)

Required from: 1st September 2024

Full time

We offer:

• Happy, friendly and talented students

• Enthusiastic, committed and friendly staff

• Strong academic results

• A school with strong care, support and guidance

• An ambitious and well established Learning Hub team

• A wide range of employee benefits including employee assistance programme and counselling sessions, option to participate in the cycle to work scheme, on site free car parking, free annual flu jab

You are:

•· A child centred, flexible and empathetic teacher with a keen interest in supporting students with additional needs.

 · Confident in delivering core literacy and numeracy teaching to SEN students throughout the 11- 16 age range.

 · Willing to develop new skills, deliver new accreditations and further develop an understanding of SEN education.

 · An enthusiastic and creative practitioner, with effective strategies to engage, inspire and motivate students.

 · Well-organised, proactive, and a supportive leader of team members. 

 · An excellent communicator, with good interpersonal skills at all levels.

· Able to organise examination access arrangements and the effective deployment of the team of LSA’s.

We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for the successful applicant and must be maintained. Applicants who are supportive of the Catholic ethos of the school are particularly welcome.

Closing Date: midday Friday 19th April 2024

Interviews: w/c 22nd April 2024

This post will involve contact with children and/or regulated activity with children

Safeguarding checks will be undertaken as part of the recruitment and selection process to include;

• An enhanced DBS check,

• Where applicable a certificate of good conduct maybe required and, in addition, for teaching posts, a letter of professional standing from the professional regulating authority in the country in which the applicant has worked,

• In accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education an online search will be conducted as part of the due diligence on shortlisted candidates.

It is an offence to apply for this role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

St Bernadette Catholic Secondary School’s commitment to eliminating discrimination is rooted in its faith identity. The work entrusted to us is to help each pupil to recognize their dignity as a child of God and to help each one to fulfil the potential that God has given them. We are committed to working with our diverse community to ensure that everyone has a strong sense of belonging. The school is also aware of its obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and complies with nondiscrimination provisions.