Job Description
We are looking for a talented KS2-3 Transition Teacher to work within our Learning Support Department Permanent, Full Time Flexible working may be considered.MPS/UPS Required from September 2025 Are you ready for your next challenge? Can you teach and deliver creatively? Are you passionate about making a real difference to students with SEND?
Are you nurturing, inclusive, empowering, caring, passionate, enriching, encouraging, child-centred and family focused? Are you ready to inspire the next generation of young minds? Are you a relentless children’s champion?
We are looking for a talented KS2-3 Transition Teacher to work within our Learning Support Department, providing specialised teaching to meet the needs of our SEND students. Working closely with our SENCO the successful candidate will preferably be primary and trained or specifically KS2-3 trained in English or Maths. To further develop the provision for SEND students, the successful candidate will: • Teach students in in Key Stage 3 across a range of subjects.
• In conjunction with the SENDCo, deliver targeted evidence based SEND interventions and contribute to EHCPs and student passports. • Contribute to training opportunities for teaching assistants and teachers to learn about SEND • Disseminate good practice in SEND across the school. • Be a dynamic, creative, inclusive teacher, with a flair for numeracy and literacy.
• Likely be primary / KS3 trained and will have a passion for teaching students with SEN, adept at adaptive teaching to ensure all students reach their potential. • Be able to motivate and inspire students to succeed in their studies and reach their full potential. • Understand the principles of effective assessment and adapt your teaching accordingly.
• Be a reflective and adaptable teacher who can maintain excellent discipline within the classroom. • Be a firm believer that background is not a barrier to outcomes and you will have high aspirations for all our students. • Build and maintain excellent relationships with students and their parents or carers.
• Plan, implement, deliver and review high quality lessons that meet the individual needs of the students and are in line with an agreed programme of study at KS3. • Ensure that students make effective progress towards their target grades through high- quality teaching and learning. • Contribute to departmental and school data tracking systems and the analysis of data to inform future target setting and planning.
• Have high expectations for all students, to deepen their knowledge and understanding and to maximise their achievement. • Be accountable for the safeguarding and welfare of all students. • Demonstrate a commitment to your own professional development and will be keen to improve your practice by being an active participant in the whole-school Teaching and Learning team.
St Thomas More is a good school (Ofsted 2022) committed to high standards of growth and professional development. The school is popular – always oversubscribed beyond our admission limit – and well respected in the local community. We are a successful school with a large Sixth Form located near Willenhall, with easy access to the M6 motorway network.
St Thomas More Catholic School is a very special place. Students are friendly, enthusiastic and eager to learn. Staff are caring, supportive and dedicated to finding the true potential in every one of our students.
If you have a commitment to ensuring every student achieves their very best, we want to hear from you! For more information, and to request an application pack including job description, please contact Jodie Massie at Hays Education on M: 07761446571 E: st.thomas.more@hays.com Closing date: 12 noon, Thursday 15th May 2025 Interviews: Week commencing 19th May Early applications are encouraged. We reserve the right to withdraw this advert should a suitable candidate be found prior to the closing date.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. 4684682