Special Needs Teacher (Maternity Cover) - Maternity - Special Needs Position

Foreland Fields School, Ramsgate

• Ref:KCC886-7040-337T
• Posted:17/09/2025
• Pay:MPS/UPS + SEN1
• Start Date:January 2026
• App Close Date:03/10/2025 at 12:00
• Interviews:Thursday 9th October

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‘This is a happy place’ (OFSTED May 2023)

Are you looking for a new challenge? Are you passionate about supporting children and young people with their development and learning? Are you keen to develop new skills? Come and join our fantastic team at Foreland Fields School!

Our pupils and students have a wide range of profound, severe and complex needs, including difficulties with communication, learning, physical and sensory development as well as medical and care needs. Classes are needs led and pupils and students follow personalised learning journeys along different curriculum pathways, depending on their individual needs.

We are seeking to recruit a teacher to cover a maternity leave for one of our Key Stage 3 classes from January 2026. There is a possibility that this post could begin in December, for candidates who are available.

We are looking for a qualified (QTS) teacher with sound knowledge, understanding and experience of teaching children at the earliest stages of development, or children with profound, severe or complex needs. We welcome applications from teachers from a mainstream background as we provide a full induction programme and a weekly CPD programme for all class-based staff.

Foreland Fields School is highly committed to improving the life chances of our pupils and students and to the raising of standards throughout school. We place a firm emphasis upon the knowledge and skills needed in later life, working in partnership with parents and outside agencies to achieve this.

The successful candidate will therefore need to be able to demonstrate:

• That they are a reflective practitioner with a commitment to ongoing professional development and research into best pedagogy and practice
• The drive and ambition to improve the life chances of pupils with SEN
• A good understanding of current national, statutory and curriculum requirements.
• The capability to deliver consistently good or better lessons.
• Knowledge of teaching pupils with special educational needs in either a mainstream or specialist setting
• The skill to differentiate their approach for pupils of all abilities
• The ability to work well as a member of a team and have excellent interpersonal skills with children, parents, professionals and other adults

We can offer you:

• A friendly and welcoming school community
• A rights respecting ethos, where the best interests of every child are a priority
• Committed, hard-working supportive specialist staff and governing body
• A well-resourced and rich learning environment
• A coaching culture, with a comprehensive weekly CPD programme and opportunities for professional development

Please contact the Deputy Headteacher (sarahthorp@foreland.kent.sch.uk) during term time for further information, or to arrange a visit to the school on one of the following dates:

Information about the school

Foreland Fields School is a Day Special School for pupils with Profound, Severe and Complex Needs (PSCN), many of whom also have Autistic Spectrum Disorder.

We provide for 200+ pupils aged 3-19 in five different pathways. In addition, we have satellite classes at Garlinge Primary School, Hartsdown Academy and East Kent College.

We encourage all of our employees to further their career development and we respect initiative and ambition. We are committed to performance management, staff training and coaching. The successful candidate will embrace the special ethos of the School, and the role will provide an opportunity to take Foreland Fields School into this next exciting phase and beyond.

Foreland Fields School is committed to the safeguarding and well-being of children therefore all successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and references. We will also complete an online search on all shortlisted candidates.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Sarah Thorp
• Address:Newlands Lane, Ramsgate, Kent, CT12 6RH
• Telephone: 01843 863891
• Email: sarahthorp@foreland.kent.sch.uk

Documents

Below are documents that have been added to this vacancy.

• Job Description
• Person Specification
• Child Protection Policy