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Your Role
We are looking to expand our curriculum in time for our second year as a brand-new educational provision. This is opening up further opportunities to join our amazing team at Red Balloon Aylesbury.
This advertisement is for a HUMANITIES Teacher & Learning Mentor. The post holder will teach History and/or Geography at GCSE, as well as project-based humanities sessions at KS3. The ability to teach RE, or English across KS3/4 would be an added bonus.
Our learners come from all walks of life, diverse backgrounds, and with different needs - our workforce should also reflect this so we can engage, encourage, and inspire our learners to be themselves.
You will need to be caring, empathetic and dedicated to help develop abilities, and foster self confidence in our young people.
The post holder will work alongside other staff in our small and nurturing team to establish and maintain a positive working relationship with our learners, their families, and other professionals supporting them. This role would suit highly experienced, qualified secondary school teachers. An understanding of SEND and mental health needs amongst academically able young people is essential.
This is a part time position which could range from approx. 0.30 - 0.60 FTE depending on which subjects can be offered.
We are open to discussions regarding hours and subject combinations and we can be flexible for the right candidate.
Qualifications
* 5 GCSEs including Maths and English (grade 4-9) or equivalent (essential)
* Degree in a relevant subject (essential)
* Qualified Teacher Status (essential)
Skills
Experience
* Experience of working with SEND and SEMH young people (essential)
Personal Attributes
* Discretion and confidentiality (essential)
* Ability to maintain personal and professional boundaries (essential)
Relevant Experience
* Ability to deliver face to face lessons (essential)
Safeguarding Information
Every learner has the right to flourish and be safe from harm and abuse. As a professional within Red Balloon Educational Trust; we all have a duty to keep our students safe and healthy.
Safeguarding is the action taken to promote the welfare of children and protect them from harm. It means:
* protecting children from abuse and maltreatment
* preventing harm to children's health or development
* ensuring children grow up with the provision of safe and effective care
* taking action to enable all children and young people have the best outcomes
Red Balloon Educational Trust has policies and procedures to ensure that every single learner, regardless of their age, disability, gender, race, religion, or belief, sex or sexual orientation, has a right to equal protection from harm. It's so important that everyone at Red Balloon Educational Trust knows what to look out for and how to report any concerns.
Safeguarding policies may be available at Trust level or be held by each Centre individually. All Safeguarding related policies and procedures are available on our website. Every Centre will ensure all staff complete training to ensure we all understand good practice and how to safeguard our learners and ourselves.
Due to the role involving engaging in regulated activity with young people, it is an offence to apply for the role if the you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. Safeguarding is Red Balloon Educational Trust's priority. No member of staff will have access to work with learners until all required training has been completed.
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