SEND Teacher - Full-time - Special Needs Position

Featherby Infant School, Gillingham

• Ref:MED887-2401-151T
• Posted:10/10/2025
• Pay:MPS 1-6/ UPS 1-3
• Start Date:1st Jan or TBC
• App Close Date:31/10/2025 at 10:00
• Interviews:TBC

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Join Featherby Partnerships School as a SEND Teacher
Champion inclusion. Inspire pupils. Shape futures

About the Role
We are seeking an inspirational and dedicated SEND Provision Teacher to join our team at Featherby Primary, part. This is an exciting opportunity to lead high-quality teaching and learning in our specialist provision while promoting inclusion across the wider school

As our SEND Teacher, you will:

• Plan and deliver personalised, engaging lessons aligned with EHCP outcomes.

• Use assessment to track and celebrate small-step progress.

• Work with therapists and external professionals (SaLT, OT, CAMHS, EP).

• Build strong, trust-based relationships with families.

• Contribute to staff CPD and model inclusive practice.

• Support regulation and behaviour plans using trauma-informed, low-arousal approaches.

Who You Are
We’re looking for a teacher who is:

• Qualified, with a passion for SEND and inclusive education.

• Experienced (or ready to develop) in working with pupils with complex needs, including autism and SEMH.

• Creative and flexible in planning learning experiences that meet diverse needs.

• Skilled at building positive relationships with children, families, and colleagues.

• Calm, reflective, and resilient, with a commitment to trauma-informed and child-centred practice.

• A strong communicator who thrives in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team.

What We Offer
At Featherby, we pride ourselves on being a warm, nurturing, and ambitious school where every child is valued. Our SEND provision is central to our inclusive ethos.

Here’s what you can expect as part of Featherby and the wider Maritime Academy Trust:

• A supportive network of SEND specialists across the Trust, including our award-winning SEND school, Danecourt.

• Bespoke, innovative CPD that is bite-sized and practical, delivered via our LearnUpon platform.

• Opportunities for career progression, whether within Featherby or across other Maritime schools.

• 1:1 devices for staff and pupils, supporting innovative and effective digital teaching.

• Access to excellent school grounds, regularly used to enhance outdoor learning.

• National terms and conditions, including the Teachers’ Pension Scheme.

• Staff wellbeing initiatives, including our Employee Assistance Programme.

Ready to Make a Difference?

We’d love to welcome you for a visit — come and see what makes Featherby Infant & Junior School so special. Please contact the school office on 01634 231984 to arrange.

You’ll find more about the role, school, and Trust in the Candidate Information Pack attached.  Apply now via My New Term — we may interview and appoint as applications are received, so don’t delay!

Featherby Infant & Junior School and the Maritime Academy Trust embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and the successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and online checks in line with safeguarding guidance.

Information about the school

We achieve our vision through a commitment to working in partnership across the Featherby schools, collaboration across Maritime and engagement with other agencies and parents.

We believe that no matter what a child’s starting point may be, they have the potential to achieve and succeed. We achieve this through our curriculum, approach to learning and through developing best practice through partnership. Our thematic curriculum develops children’s skills and knowledge to ensure we equip them for the challenges of life; ensuring they leave us ready for the next stage of their educational journey as 21st Century learners and citizens. Our approach to learning is centred around cognitive science and developing webs of knowledge.

We believe in encouraging independent and resilient learners who have the ability to work collaboratively, embracing known pedagogy, whilst developing new models for learning using the latest technologies and approaches. We actively equip our children with cognitive strategies and functional skills which are proven to support knowledge retention and to develop our children’s webs of knowledge. Our children will take ownership of metacognition adopting the best strategies for them. This will support self-regulation - they will choose the strategies which work for them.

Skills will remain with us forever ensuring we are confident, curious, and resilient learners – proud of who we are and optimistic about what we will achieve, holding high aspirations of ourselves. Ensuring we are ready for the next stage of learning and the 21st Century.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Maritime Academy Trust
• Address:50 John Harrison Way, Greenwich, London, SE10 0BG
• Telephone: 020 8858 0394
• Email: recruitment@maritimeacademytrust.org

Documents

Below are documents that have been added to this vacancy.

• Application Pack