Job description
Beaucroft School
Special Needs Teacher
Exciting times!
Beaucroft School continues to expand and now has a brand new Beaucroft College, located at
the former Wimborne First School, in the centre of Wimborne town. This is providing additional spaces across the whole school.
Consequently, we are expanding our brilliant staff team and strengthening further in all areas of the
school and college. We have an excellent track record in developing staff with an extensive internal professional training schedule. This is a fantastic time to join our wonderful Beaucroft team and play a part in this exciting development.
Beaucroft is a Foundation Special School that caters for children and young people between the ages of four and nineteen who are experiencing learning difficulties, including complex needs, and those with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Our pupils’ needs range vastly and we are dedicated to giving the very best education to the children that they deserve.
Beaucroft is a special place, where children feel valued and staff ensure that learning needs are met. In addition to the National Curriculum, it offers a personalised, innovative curriculum to meet particular learning needs, focused on practical, community based learning, creating a friendly, caring environment where children positively thrive.
‘The quality of teaching, learning and assessment is consistently high. Staff know each pupil exceptionally well. This means staff plan activities which precisely meets the needs of pupils and which enable them to learn well and thrive. Activities planned excite, motivate and inspire pupils.’ (OfSTED June 2018.)
This is an opportunity to join our passionate, enthusiastic and ‘Outstanding’ team! We are seeking a motivated, skilled and resilient teacher who has experience of supporting young people with SEND including those on the autistic spectrum. They will have a flexible approach, exemplary communication skills and be able to meet the challenging needs of our young people.
Start Date: January 2024 or earlier if possible.
Salary: Teachers’ pay scale + SEN Point
Experience of working in a SEN environment is desirable - a ‘can do’ attitude is essential!
We can offer you:
- Ongoing CPD support including Dorset Steps (TADSS)
- Wellbeing package
- The opportunity to work within a school which has been rated OfSTED ‘Outstanding’ three times consecutively where all can thrive and staff are highly valued.
Closing date: 03.07.23
Interview Days: 10.07.23
Please contact the school for further information.
If you have not been contacted by 07.07.23 you have unsuccesful on this occasion.
We value the diversity of our workforce and welcome applications from all sectors of the community.
Beaucroft School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; this is a commitment which we expect all staff and volunteers to share. The successful candidate will be required to have a Disclosure and Barring Service check in line with the Governments safer recruitment guidelines.
This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
We will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. All aspects of social media and internet searches will be conducted. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.