About Us
Northgate is a vibrant, multi-cultural primary school situated very close to Crawley town centre. We are a growing school with 660 children on roll currently including a Specialist Support Centre (SSC) for children with hearing impairment and a further 39-place maintained Nursery. The school has recently been graded as ‘good’ by Ofsted. We have over 30 different languages within our school, and an increasing number of children with EHCPs.
We can offer you:
- A dynamic and friendly staff who support each other and work as a team
- Welcoming children who are keen to learn
- Staff who are keen to gain more knowledge of supporting children with specific needs in their classrooms
- Relevant training and mentoring to support your role
Job Details
Salary: MPS/UPS + SEN Allowance
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full-time
Location: Crawley
Interviews: 2nd July
As a SEN teacher, you'll be an experienced qualified teacher with a passion for supporting pupils with special educational needs. Working closely with the head teacher, Deputy head in charge of inclusion, SENCO and other senior colleagues, you'll use your leadership skills to manage our specialist provision and to provide support to other teachers and will liaise with the leadership team.
What You Need to Succeed
The successful candidates will demonstrate:
Essential:
- be enthusiastic, caring and innovative and have good interpersonal and communication skills within our team
- support teachers to develop and implement effective teaching and behaviour management approaches in the classroom
- have a very good rapport with staff, external agencies and parents to reassure, lead and guide them
- support classroom staff to design interventions with pupils in the classroom
- design and plan for children with complex needs to ensure their learning needs are being met.
Desirable:
- have innovative and up to date experience in sensory needs, regulation, interoception, and emotional wellbeing; keep up to date with national and local policies related to SEN and cascade information to colleagues
- provide advice, guidance and training to classroom teachers on supporting pupils with SEN. EAL and PP
- Experience and training in Trauma and the impact it has
Further Information
If you would like to know more about this position, please contact Mrs Risby-Tester, SENDCO: [email protected]
Application is by application form only
Northgate Primary School and West Sussex County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to an appropriate Disclosure and Barring Service check along with other relevant employment checks, including satisfactory references.
How to Apply
To apply for this role please download the job description and application form below.
Please complete the application form and ensure that you outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills in the job description).
Once complete please return this to [email protected]
Should you have any questions regarding the role or the application please feel free to contact us.
NOTE TO CANDIDATES - Please do not select the ‘Apply online’ button as the School processes your applications directly rather than through this site.
The reference number for this role is SCHO02535.
Job Reference: SCHO02535
