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SEN Science Teacher
Full time, permanent
Directed hours: Mondays 8.15 - 5.30, Tuesdays to Fridays 8.15 - 4.30
Required January 2025
** Recruitment incentive - £2000 payment upon the successful completion of probation! **
-Annual pay rises (we are independent of national Teacher pay scales!)
-Stability and job security
-Shorter term times (<37 weeks)
-Extremely generous 13 INSET days provided each year to provide for our; CPD and upskilling teams, staff collaboration, parent information afternoons and summer end of year report writing
-Supportive, empathic, professional team to work with
-Therapeutic approach to pupil behaviour and provision
-Small school
-Maximising professional nurturing of children in accordance with updated Psychological research, adopting changes in children's needs following the pandemic
-Substantial non-contact time each week
-Protected lunch break each day in our quiet, staff retreat area
-24/7 Wellbeing support from the Employee Assistance Programme (including free face to face counselling and supervision sessions should these be needed)
-Generous budgets for resources for subject delivery, each child has a personal ICT budget
-Generous CPD time and budget (extra to non-contact time)
-Schemes of work provided
-Complimentary staff 'thank you' events to show our appreciation throughout the year
-Refreshments provided throughout every day
-We are inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate rather than Ofsted!
We are looking for a positive, flexible, compassionate person to join our friendly team at Clarity Independent School. We cater for 13 pupils with SEND (mostly high functioning autism, ADHD and anxiety). We have exciting opportunities for an applicant who wishes to deliver a tailor-made SEN Science curriculum for small groups of children, overseeing a class of 4-6 pupils and supervising HLTAs.
You will be responsible for a class / key group of 4-6 children and will teach Key Stage 2-4 in small groups or on a one-to-one basis (along with other lessons in the afternoons as required). Lessons will be at the school, and activities will be in and around the local area. We use specialist support teams for extra-curricular activities and you will be required to transport and accompany children to and from these by car, supervising throughout. Ownership and use of a car full time, as well as a full driving license, is therefore essential.
The successful applicant will need to have substantial recent experience teaching pupils with SEN, along with substantial experience teaching pupils up to the end of Key Stage 4, and Science to Entry Level and foundational GCSE.
It would be preferable, (but not essential to being awarded the position), for the successful candidate to also teach an ICT curriculum at KS4, which will be provided by the school.
We have excellent CPD opportunities and exciting budgets for subject resources!
This is also a great opportunity to develop your Therapeutic Thinking skills by working with SEN pupils in a small, nurturing special school setting. A commitment to working as part of a team, helping to develop and support others to deliver Science across the school, and to developing your own skills is essential.
If you would like a tour, please contact our office team to arrange.
Please note:
We are closed for half term from Friday 18th October until our return on Monday 4th November.
Applications will be screened as soon as they are received and will be contacted asap before the closing date for interview; therefore, early applications are most welcome.
Our school is committed to safeguarding its pupils, and as such, a DBS check and online checks, such as social media checks, will be made as well as references sought prior to appointment.
Information about the School
Clarity Independent School is a small special needs school for pupils with complex profiles of learning and SEND. We take pupils aged between 6 and 17 years and all pupils are referred to the school by the Statutory Assessment team of several Local Authorities around the Essex and surrounding areas. We have 13 places.