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Teachers Needed Across All Subjects and All Key Stages - Full-time - Special Needs Position

City of Rochester School, Cliffe Woods

  • Ref:KCC887-6011-112T
  • Posted:01/05/2025
  • Pay:MPS/UPS + SEN allowance
  • Start Date:September 2025
  • App Close Date:06/06/2025 at 10:00
  • Interviews:TBA

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“A good school with outstanding Pupil Personal Development and Behaviour and Attitudes” Ofsted 2024

City of Rochester School is a specialist independent school for children and young people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This role will be based across two sites one at Cliffe Woods and at City of Rochester School Vocational College which is based on Medway City Estate. 

Our ambition at City of Rochester College is for pupils to develop self-confidence, independence and resilience through an engaging and holistic curriculum. This will provide the skills, life experiences and qualifications pupils need to participate successfully in wider society.

We are looking for a number of teachers across all disciplines ready for September 2025

About You:

As a qualified teacher you will be highly motivated to teach children with special needs to make progress and fulfil their potential. You will have:

  • Successful leadership and management experience in a school – at least 3 years    
  • Experience of running and contributing to staff development  
  • Experience of timetabling   
  • relevant experience of classroom teaching and of working with children who have ASD - the role will include some teaching
  • Involvement in school self-evaluation and development planning   
  • knowledge of curriculum, assessment and inspection requirements
  • a wider interest in working with children, young people and their parents/carers both inside and outside the classroom
  • the ability to contribute positively to the overall programme of learning for each student to ensure progression
  • a focus on pupil outcomes and pupil progression
  • to contribute to learning outside the classroom
  • understanding that safeguarding all children is a top priority: to ensure their safety and wellbeing at all times 

 

You should have:

  • a relevant teaching qualification and experience in the classroom
  • interest in a particular area of learning or the curriculum
  • experience working within an ASD setting
  • a high degree of initiative and sound judgement when working with children and young people
  • ability to communicate effectively with learners and their parents/carers
  • ability to work with parents
  • ability, patience and judgement to manage behaviour
  • be willing to work outside normal school hours to run after-school clubs

 

DEVELOP YOUR CAREER WITH US! 

We offer:

  • Fantastic pupils
  • Supportive school community
  • Innovative curriculum
  • Employer’s pension contribution of 8%
  • All school holidays plus up to 10 additional days holiday entitlement
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Full induction programme
  • Monthly professional training and development
  • 5 Inset Days with a focus on autism best practice and curriculum knowledge and development 

You are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close posts at any time, and interview at any time, once we have received sufficient applications.

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.