REQUIREMENTS:

• We are interested to hear from people with a wider range of experiences and backgrounds.
• We are looking for qualified teachers, but at any stage in their career development. We are registered to provide induction processes for new entrants to the profession.
• You need to be over 21 years of age – but there is no upper limit.
• You need to hold a full driving licence (essential)
• A sense of humour, life skills, broad interests, liking young people, resilience, creativity, problem solving etc – the boys need a variety of role models around them.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• You will be part of a small team of teachers, supported by a school administrator and led by the Head and Deputy.
• You will be responsible for your curriculum/ subject areas – preparing, planning and delivering the lessons.
• There will be differentiation to meet the needs of your students and creativity to engage interests and expose the students to new experiences and learning.
• Class sizes are small, typically 3 students, and so there is a high level of individual engagement, pastoral support and guidance.
• There are various internal meetings, reporting tasks, assessments and other administrative activities that you would associate with teaching looked after or SEN pupils.
• In addition to the staff team meeting, as a therapeutic setting we have additional support and reflection spaces to engage with – some just for the teaching team, some for the wider adult team and some that involve the students too.
• Safeguarding and managing boundaries is a key part of the role – but we do this with very open communication and active use of relationships – we have very low levels of incidents, safeguarding referrals or more extreme challenging behaviours.
• We have our own residential team on site and our own therapy team – so part of the role is about integrating with that wider team – the whole service operates as a ‘therapeutic community’ and so we have a lot of spaces for staff to reflect on their work in teams and together with the boys.
• This is work based on the relationships between everyone – boys, staff, up, down and sideways – we place a lot of support on helping staff develop their own self-awareness in relationship to others.
• A more detailed ‘technical’ Job Description in relation to teaching and learning and educational systems is available to support interested applicants.