Company Overview
We are an innovative and expanding provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special needs. Our goal is to empower individuals to grow. The word ‘growth’ is personal to each and every one of us. We believe that each individual has a unique set of skills and abilities, and their diversity should be encouraged, developed and celebrated. Our roles are to find ways to discover how. We all work together as a cohesive and dynamic, harmonious team. Bringing together education, care and therapy in an interdisciplinary manner, developing innovative new approaches which will lead to the catalyst for change and help to unlock the potential within each individual. We create enabling learning environments for children and young adults to have the opportunities to grow in their own unique and inspiring way. Every one of us makes a contribution to the outcomes, regardless of whether we are working directly with children and young adults or not. Each element of what we do comes together to create something spectacular. We are always seeking exceptional leaders to join our energetic team. So if you’re looking for a new challenge in education or care with a dynamic new organisation which truly believes in empowering uniqueness and valuing differences, then we want to hear from you.
Aurora Poppyfield School
We’re looking to recruit a KS3 Teacher to run our nurture programme within our team at Poppyfield School. The successful candidate will be delivering high quality teaching and learning to our students, they are aged between 11 – 16 with ASD and other complex or anxiety related needs who may present with challenging behaviours associated with their diagnosis. Some pupils may have multiple learning difficulties.
Poppyfield is part of the Aurora group, they share their Principal with Redehall school.
To see more about the work that Poppyfield does please follow this link – https//youtu.be/crpoGrYVnDU
What’s in it for you? / Why Should You Apply?
- You want to make a difference in the lives of our students and their families.
- You want to contribute to our broad and creative curriculum offer.
- You want to work with an inspiring student population.
- You enjoy working as part of a collaborative and committed multi-disciplinary team.
- You have a strong commitment to student and staff well-being and want to work in an organisation with the same strong values.
- You want to work within an organisation that support, develops and invests in their staff.
Key Duties
You will be accountable to the school leadership teams to provide the following roles and responsibilities.
- To contribute to the delivery and development of the curriculum, having regard to the educational, physical and social needs of the students within a learning environment.
- To work collaboratively with other members of staff as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- To maintain and use short, medium and long term plans in delivering the curriculum.
- To set, monitor and review personalised targets that will optimise learning for each individual.
- To monitor, assess, review and report on the progress and work of students to parents, team members, senior staff, examination and funding bodies through reports and identified meetings as directed and as is required through school policies and procedures.
- To develop lesson plans analysing and self-reflecting on the outcomes.
- To attend and contribute to all relevant meetings and maintain good lines of communication with other staff.
- To contribute to the review of EHC plans, PEP and LAC reviews.
- To provide clear structures for lessons maintaining pace, motivation and challenge.
- To take account of wider curriculum developments.
- To maintain an overall awareness of current issues in the field of autism in order to be able to plan for effective teaching and learning.
- To work in a non-confrontational way to ensure individual needs are met.
- To appropriately manage challenging behaviours within the school policy and procedures.
- Job Description – Teacher
- Qualified Teacher Status or equivalent teaching qualification and evidence of in-service training.
- Experience of working in a special school environment and in particular with pupils with ASC and SEND
- Experience of successfully delivering a differentiated curriculum to pupils with a wide range of needs.
- Further qualifications in SEND desirable
- Working knowledge of ASC/SEMH students with complex needs.
- Evidence of sound knowledge of the national curriculum.
- Knowledge, understanding and experience of autism and associated co-morbid conditions and how these can affect learning.
- Curriculum development and implementation for pupils with SEND and in particular autism.
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