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AEN (Additional Educational Needs) Teacher - Maternity - Special Needs Position

Whitfield Aspen School, Dover

  • Ref:KCC886-2471-66T
  • Posted:05/01/2017
  • Pay:MPS
  • Start Date:Apr 2017
  • App Close Date:19/01/2017 at 12:00
  • Interviews:Tuesday, 31st January 2017

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Full Time AEN (Additional Educational Needs) Teacher required to cover Maternity Leave from 18th April 2017 (initially six months with the possibility of other employment opportunities within our expanding school).

 

Mainscale Salary Full Time Position (both NQT’s and UPS welcome to apply).

 

Whitfield Aspen School is looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Teacher for our pupils with profound, severe and complex needs. You should have the skills to lead a team of Teaching Assistants to ensure effective pupil learning through innovative and creative approaches to the curriculum. Previous experience of working in a special school is desirable but not essential.

 

We are a fully inclusive school and strive to Learn Together with Aspiration, Imagination and Determination. This is a rare opportunity for someone new to join our friendly and supportive staff so we need to find the right person. Have you got what it takes?

 

We are looking for:

  • An outstanding teacher who is committed to providing exciting and meaningful learning opportunities.
  • A team member who is determined to get high quality work from children.
  • A teacher who uses their imagination to enrich the children’s enjoyment of learning.

 

If you would like to join our highly motivated team in our school, we highly recommend you come and visit us before applying online. This gives applicants a chance to see Aspen (Special School) and Whitfield (Main School) living and learning together. This is a unique school which prides itself on how it enables everyone to learn together whilst treating everyone equally but not necessarily the same.

 

Please ensure that before submitting details of referees on your application form, that they are willing to provide a reference prior to the commencement of the interview process.

Contracts will be subject to satisfactory references, teacher barring and qualification checks and pre-employment health screening.

Our school and its personnel are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children. This post is subject to an Enhanced Certificate from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Information about the school

We are a ‘Good’ school with outstanding opportunities for pupils and staff. In September 2019, we were one of the first schools inspected under the new framework. Whitfield Aspen School is unusual in a national context, in that it is a two/three form entry mainstream primary, with over four hundred pupils, combined with the district special school for one hundred and seventy-two pupils with Profound, Severe and Complex Learning Needs (PSCN). Our school is an extremely cohesive community with an ethos and culture that helps young people to thrive. It has provided extensive training for ALL staff and offers staff a high degree of autonomy which comes along with high expectations and personal responsibility.

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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.