Specialist Resource Provision Classroom Teacher - Full-time - Special Needs Position

Valley Invicta Primary School at Leybourne Chase, West Malling

• Ref:KCC886-2036-30T
• Posted:21/01/2022
• Pay:VIAT Main Pay Scale or Upper Pay Scale
• Start Date:Immediate
• App Close Date:20/02/2022 at 10:00
• Interviews:To be confirmed

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We are seeking to recruit an experienced, passionate, and effective practitioner, to join our successful and dedicated team of ASD specialist staff.

Our school has an established specialist resource provision for pupils with ASD, where children make excellent progress and achieve highly. We are looking for a person who has the qualifications, skills, and ambition for the children to enable them to accomplish their learning and personal targets.
Working across the school, with SRP and mainstream staff, the role is exactly suited to someone with a sense of purpose, a high level of positive outlook and attitude and a focus on high standards of achievement.

The team are highly skilled in adapting learning and delivery to enable all children to succeed, and this career opportunity would enable the right candidate to work alongside the current staff to continue to develop outstanding practice.

Essential skills

• The use of independent initiative when supporting pupils in all Key Stages.
• The ability to work with a team in a responsive and flexible manner, responding to the instruction and advice of the SENCo SRP lead teacher and experienced HLTA.
• Ability to reflect and see solutions in daily teaching, in own practice and that of the team.
• To share ideas for the adjustment of learning so that pupils with SEND know and remember more.
• To support the planning and preparing lessons and resources that are to be adapted for pupils in the SRP.
• To support the SENCo SRP lead teacher with paperwork and assessment.
• Plan in-reach learning for other pupils with SEND from around the school and monitor learning thorough feedback.
• To build effective trusting relationships with parents, external agencies, and a range of professionals
• To use knowledge of research and experience to bring ideas and methods of support to the SENCo SRP lead teacher and school team to enable all children to reach their full potential.
• A willingness and interest in using CPD to further develop career.

What we offer

• Fantastic pupils who want to learn.
• Opportunities and support for career development includes including coaching and a specialist SEN pathway to access additional SEN training at all levels.
• The chance to work across schools as part of our small and friendly Academy Trust.
• A friendly and inclusive team who are supportive of one another and focused on well-being.

We warmly invite visits to our school to see how we work and to find out more about the role.

Valley Invicta Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding children and promoting their welfare. It expects all staff and volunteers to share this same commitment. Any appointment is subject to satisfactory recruitment checks, including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. 

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

We are an equal opportunities employer.

Information about the school

The Valley Invicta Academies Trust is a Multi Academy Trust, based in Maidstone, Kent. The Trust is a family of primary and secondary schools which work in partnership to provide nothing less than outstanding education for all our young people. Presently the Trust is responsible for five primary schools and four secondary schools:

VIAT Primary Schools

Valley Invicta Primary School at Aylesford, Valley Invicta Primary School at Holborough Lakes, Valley Invicta Primary School at Kings Hill, Valley Invicta Primary School at Leybourne Chase and Valley Invicta Primary School a East Borough.

VIAT Secondary Schools

Invicta Grammar School, Valley Park School, The Lenham School and SST Maidstone. Invicta Grammar School, the highest performing “non super selective” school in Kent and Valley Park School, the highest performing non-selective school in Kent.

Job Contact Information

• Name:VIAT HR
• Address:Birling Road, Leybourne Chase, West Malling, Kent, ME19 6FF
• Telephone: 03033030000 Option 5
• Email: recruitment@viat.org.uk

Documents

Below are documents that have been added to this vacancy.

• Job Description and Person Specification