Maths Teacher - Vinney Green Secure Children's Home

at  South Gloucestershire Council

How you’ll make a difference:
Vinney Green Secure Children’s Home offers young people a safe and caring environment, where they experience high quality care, education, recreational facilities, and life skills training. As a Maths Teacher, you will play a vital role in the home, helping to provide our young people with high quality education.

What you will be doing:

• Daily, you will design and implement an engaging mathematics curriculum for our young people, helping to promote their personal and educational development.
• As part of the curriculum, you will assist with arrangements for pupils entering external examinations.
• Working alongside colleagues, you will help oversee pupil development and ensure all young people are taught in a safe and secure environment.
• You will be responsible for a small tutor group of young people and will help to engage them in meaningful activities.
• Occasionally, you will participate in extra-curricular activities designed to enrich our young people.

What we need from you:

• It is essential that you have qualified teacher status with experience of teaching maths to pupils and curriculum planning.
• You must have a good understanding of the impact of SEND and complex trauma on educational attainment and outcomes.
• We require you to have excellent communication skills and a proven ability to build positive relationships with children and young people.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

The salary is plus a Secure Unit allowance of £2,583 per annum. Annual leave can be taken during term time (subject to manager approval).
Young people can present physically threatening behaviour and the environment can become tense and anxiety provoking, so for everybody’s safety surveillance cameras are in use in most areas of the building. Meals are usually eaten with young people.
Vinney Green operates a full non-smoking environment, and there is no provision to facilitate smoking anywhere on site. Staff’s personal belongings are required to be left in a provided locker on entry into the building and we may require you to undertake a further physical fitness check.
This role is demanding and there will be some physical active aspects to the job, but we can assure you that this will be one of the most rewarding jobs that you will ever do!
Please note that due to the nature of this role, an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is obtained for this post.

HOW A CAREER AT SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNCIL IS DIFFERENT

• As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
• We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
• We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.
• What’s special here is the strength of the team ethos, the support and the training.
• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the safety and welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. Ensuring all our staff are given right skills, knowledge and support to recognise and respond effectively to potential abuse or neglect.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.

• We’re building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
• We’re working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life
• We’re investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.

We’ve achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
To view the full job description, please click this link: Teacher (VGSCH) - Job Descriptio

• Daily, you will design and implement an engaging mathematics curriculum for our young people, helping to promote their personal and educational development.
• As part of the curriculum, you will assist with arrangements for pupils entering external examinations.
• Working alongside colleagues, you will help oversee pupil development and ensure all young people are taught in a safe and secure environment.
• You will be responsible for a small tutor group of young people and will help to engage them in meaningful activities.
• Occasionally, you will participate in extra-curricular activities designed to enrich our young people