Teacher

Job reference number:

SGJ01030061

Teacher Scale:

Main Pay 1 – Upper Pay Scale 3 + SEN 1

Contract Type:

Temporary (August 2025)

Hours:

Full Time

Working Pattern:

Full Time

Actual Salary:

£30,000 - £46,525 + £2,539

Interview Date:

Friday 17^th May 2024

Click here for the Job Description

Click here for the Person Specification

Click here for the Application Form

Click here for the Application Guidance

Click here for the Policy on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders

Click here for the Privacy Notice

As part of the raising Rochdale agenda to raise life ambitions for all learners in a collaborative manner, we are thrilled to share Springside Primary Special School is extending its curriculum pathways and are therefore seeking to appoint a temporary class teacher. Applicants must have a passion for meeting the holistic needs of learners with SEND and support the inclusion agenda. Applicants must be motivated, resilient practitioners, with a growth mindset who place learners at the heart of what they do, always seeking to develop their practice and strive to ensure the best possible outcomes for all in our community.

At Springside we believe in supporting our learners to be independent, to enjoy every element of their lives, to achieve more than they can imagine and have a real sense of

self-worth. We believe in challenging the ‘we have always done it this way’ mind-set, together as a community. As such, we have created a Gateway learning team and welcome practitioners who will support learners to be ‘Calm enough to engage and alert enough to learn’.

At present as a generic special school catering for 130 learners aged 4-11 years, we have 3 phases to ensure we provide a specialised and personalised curriculum. In September 2023 we launched a ‘Learning for life’ hub to run alongside our finely tuned pathways.

Our Experiential Phase is predominantly for our learners with profound and multiple learning difficulties often alongside complex medical needs. In this phase activities and sessions are planned carefully to engage the learners so that areas ofexploration, realisation, anticipation, persistence and initiation can be observed.

Our Exploratory Phase is predominantly where our learners with social communication difficulties learn, which can present as behaviour which challenges us at times. In this phase developing the use of functional expressive communication is central to learning. Independence is always encouraged through a tiered system of adult modelling, sabotage and reducing adult support.

Our Investigative Phase is predominantly where our learners who’s learning difficulty is their primary need. Developing understanding and expression of feelings and emotions is central to learning, we offer a needs-based curriculum, where appropriate, using specific elements of the National Curriculum in a carefully tailored approach. Each utilising and developing learner’s skills to encourage investigation, expression and independent learning. Each learners' capabilities are considered and individual needs are fully met, educationally, socially, emotionally and physically.

We welcome applications from Mainstream and Special Schools.

Visits to the School are welcomed.

This position is expected to start on 1//9/24 and is temporary until 31^st August 2025 but may be extended if funding permits. If you would like to discuss the positions available, please make contact with school via office@springside.rochdale.sch.uk or telephone on 01706 764451 to arrange a time to have a discussion either face to face or via the telephone.

To apply for this position please download the application form and supporting documentation and send completed applications to Recruitment@springside.rochdale.sch.uk by 9.00am on Thursday9th May 2024.

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Appointment to this post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring and background check

The ability to converse at ease with customers and service users and provide advice in accurate spoken English is an essential requirement of this post.

Applicants are advised that by applying for this position they are declaring that they are not subject to any immigration controls or restrictions that prohibit them undertaking work in the UK, and that they are able to provide proof of their Right to Work in the UK if they are invited to attend an interview.

This is a fixed term contract linked to specific external funding by Rochdale Borough SEND Team until 31st August 2025.

The school will carry out an online search as part of their due-diligence for all shortlisted candidates in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023.

.