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English Subject Lead - Full-time - Special Needs Position

City of Rochester School, Cliffe Woods

  • Ref:MED887-6011-76T
  • Posted:21/03/2023
  • Pay:U1 - U3 + SEN
  • Start Date:September 2023
  • App Close Date:17/04/2023 at 11:00
  • Interviews:TBC

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We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed practitioner to lead English across the school.  If you are determined to make a difference to the lives and futures of our young people, then this post is for you. This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to really have an impact and shape the English curriculum across the school – from primary through to sixth form, as the school continues on its journey to exceptional.

We are seeking to recruit a Curriculum Lead of English to:

  • Ensure the quality of teaching and learning continues to meet the high aspirations of our learners, providing them with the skills, knowledge and qualifications required for success in their chosen next steps
  • Innovate and develop an inclusive, hands-on, inspiring and enriching English curriculum
  • Work cross curricular with other teachers/practitioners
  • Work in partnership with the school therapy team and other key staff in school
  • Promote reading across the school
  • Develop and maintain a rigorous system of monitoring, evaluating and improving the quality of teaching and learning and pupil outcomes across the curriculum

 

As the successful applicant, you will have:

  • Evidence of successful English teaching at primary and/or secondary
  • Experience of leading teams and curriculum development
  • Evidence of a successful track record in working with pupils with autism spectrum condition and other SEN
  • An ability to develop and sustain successful relationships with pupils and colleagues
  • Recent, relevant professional leadership development or the willingness to undertake

 

If you think you can make a positive and confident contribution to our team, we would be delighted to hear from you.

 

 

Information about the school

I am delighted to introduce you to City of Rochester School. We provide specialist education for children and young people with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), aged 5 to 18. We are incredibly proud of our unique children, our supportive parents and carers and our dedicated staff where we all work together to make City of Rochester School a safe, happy and inspirational place to learn.

We are a small school offering an individualised and bespoke curriculum that enables pupils to thrive, shaped by our principles of Confidence + Resilience = Success. Our curriculum is both academic, offering accreditation of learning programmes from KS3 through to GCSEs and BTECs in KS4 and KS5 together with the experiential and vocational offering. In addition to mastery of the core subjects such as in English, Mathematics and Science, pupils participate in a range of exciting off-site learning opportunities that support the curriculum for example – horse riding; farm school; forest school and practical and vocational work such as film making, robotics and photography. We are across two sites, the main site accommodating pupils up to sixth form, and our Vocational College for post 16. Pupils from across the school have an opportunity to use the facilities at our Vocational College and learn vocational/practical skills.

Our pupils’ neurodiversity means that we focus on their social and academic development. This is reinforced by powerful pastoral and family engagement programmes. In addition, we have a highly experienced therapy team – for example Speech and Language, Play Therapy, Counselling and Occupational Therapy to address our pupils’ individual needs. Our specialist staff know all our pupils, parents and carers very well and this forms the bedrock of our approach.  The ambition for all our pupils is for them to learn and develop their social skills so that they can embed and apply their learning and create the foundation for further education, training and employment. Where appropriate, work attachments and experiences are provided. We aim to provide holistic learning opportunities with clear outputs and outcomes, working closely with parents and carers to identify and develop the talents and skills of our very special children.

It is our duty and responsibility to provide the right environment to nurture our pupils’ confidence; to give them the necessary skills to be resilient and responsible citizens and to create and celebrate their paths to success.

I extend a warm welcome to you.

Alicja Emmett Headteacher 

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education.