Specialist Teacher - Full-time/Part-time

Five Acre Wood School, Maidstone

• Ref:KCC886-7056-223T
• Posted:15/11/2019
• Pay:MPS/UPS +SENA
• Start Date:ASAP
• App Close Date:29/11/2019 at 12:00
• Interviews:TBC

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Specialist Teacher required

Five Acre Wood is a successful outward looking and expanding District Special School based over 3 sites in and around Maidstone, Kent. We currently have 530 pupils on roll aged 2-19 years with profound, severe and complex needs.  We are looking for people with a positive approach to join us who share our vision of ‘Only the best will do’ for all our students and staff.  We have been awarded ‘Investors in People - Gold award’ standard, the first school the assessor has awarded this standard at first application in 20 years. This demonstrates we really value our people and want to work with them to fulfil their career ambitions.

The purpose of the job is to ensure the best possible outcomes for Children and Young People (CYP) with Special Educational Needs & Disability (SEND) aged 0 – 19/24 by working collaboratively with professionals in statutory and non statutory organisations.

All specialist teachers will have a specialism in one or more areas of need:

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Speech, Language & Communication Needs (SLCN), Cognition and  Learning Difficulties (C&L), Social, Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties (SEBD), Early Years, Hearing Impairment (HI), Visual Impairment (VI), Multi-Sensory Impairment (MSI), Physical Impairment (PI) and will work across one or more phases of education: 0-5 Foundation Stage (including children attending PVIs) , 5-11 KS 1&2, 11-19/24 KS3&4 + Post 16.

Please see the attached job description for a list of duties and responsibilities.

For further information regarding the school, please go to our website www.fiveacrewood.co.uk . We look forward to hearing from you.

Information about the school

Five Acre Wood is a successful outward looking and expanding Special School based over 4 sites in and around Maidstone, Kent. We are one of the largest special schools in the country with over 800 pupils on roll aged 2-19 years with profound, severe and complex needs.

Our ‘Outstanding’ school will continue to expand and we are looking for people with a positive approach to join us who share our vision of ‘Only the best will do’ for all our students and staff. We are a Teaching School and part of a collaborative alliance with other special schools. We have been awarded The Schools Wellbeing Award for pupils and staff which demonstrates we really value our people and want to work with them to fulfil their career ambitions.

In addition to your salary, FAW allowance and pension benefits, we have excellent additional staff benefits including:

Confidential staff counselling service A wellbeing app and platform A range of staff social and well-being events Annual flu vaccinations

Sometimes words cannot explain how something really is, we would encourage you to view the links below:

We hold an annual music festival for our pupils, it gives them the opportunity experience something they may not ordinarily be able to access. You can see it here.

Woodstock 2023 – Woodstock 2023 Festival at Five Acre Wood School - YouTube

Woodstock 2022 - Woodstock 2022 Festival at Five Acre Wood Schools - YouTube

Woodstock 2019 - Five Acre Wood School's "Woodstock 2019" - Amazing Festival in a Day! (Longer Film) - YouTube

We produced our own songs and music videos, you can watch them here: -

Beautiful – Five Acre Wood School featuring Taryn Charles - Youtube

Five Acre Wood School Featuring Jack Rose - Hall Of Fame - YouTube

Don’t Give Up – Nathan Grisdale and Five Acre Wood School - YouTube

We look forward to hearing from you.

Five Acre Wood is committed to the safeguarding of all its pupils, you will therefore be subject to an enhanced disclosure process. As part of our responsibility for safeguarding, in addition to the Kent policy of one employment and one personal reference, the school will request additional employment references. The school will also, as outlined in Keeping children Safe in Education 2022, complete an online search for shortlisted candidates.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Nicola Devereux
• Address:Boughton Lane, Maidstone , Kent, ME15 9QF
• Telephone: (01622) 743925
• Email: hr@five-acre.kent.sch.uk

Fax: 01622 744828

Documents

Below are documents that have been added to this vacancy.

• Specialist Teacher job description