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SEN Teacher – KS2/3
Essential Criteria: PGCE, Qualified Teacher Status or equivalent teaching qualification and evidence of in-service training.
Location: Cheshire
Contract Type: Full-time
Hours: 40 hours per week
Salary: M1 – UPS2
Aurora Summerfields School Wilmslow
Aurora Summerfields School is an established independent specialist setting in Wilmslow for pupils aged 5–19 with complex communication and social needs, typically associated with autism spectrum condition. The school provides a safe, nurturing environment where individuality is recognised and supported, enabling pupils to develop into confident, resilient learners.
The school has capacity for 50 pupils and offers a carefully designed curriculum that balances academic learning with life skills and personal development, ensuring pupils are prepared for their next steps in education, employment or training.
Ofsted (February 2024) judged the school to be Good overall, with Outstanding behaviour and personal development, highlighting the strong relationships, nurturing environment and the positive progress pupils make from their individual starting points.
We are seeking a Class Teacher to join our team from September 2026. We are looking to appoint someone with experience of delivering outcomes for young people who are of upper primary or secondary age but working below age related expectations and on a life skills/ functional pathway. Experience of teaching a range of subjects across the National Curriculum would be advantageous. This role would suit a teacher experienced in supporting pupils who benefit from a personalised, therapeutic approach to learning.
The Role
As a Class Teacher, your role will be to provide high quality teaching that will enable pupils to make progress not just academically but socially and emotionally. You must be creative and have high expectations. An understanding of ASC would be useful to support the planning and delivery of a broad and balanced curriculum to enable our pupils to achieve their full potential in all areas.
To facilitate this, you'll plan and deliver lessons across a number of subjects that support young people, building self-esteem and confidence.
You'll supervise and provide support and guidance to our Teaching Assistants and play a key role in their Professional Development Reviews.
Naturally, you will take responsibility for implementing school policies and practices, including those relating to safeguarding and equality of opportunity. Additionally; you will also be expected to carefully monitoring the health, well-being and personal care of our pupils; informing Pastoral/clinical/ SEND support teams and any other relevant professionals of any concerns.
Skills and Qualifications
Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:
1. Qualified Teacher status
2. Experience in achieving outstanding outcomes
3. Thorough working knowledge of the curriculum and how to adapt this for pupils with SEN
4. Experience of working with young people with an ASC
5. Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedures
6. Ability to create and maintain strong nurturing relationships with young people
7. Experience of managing a range of approaches to learning, to include the students with anxiety.
8. Knowledge of strategies and visual teaching methods to engage reluctant learners.
9. A flexible approach, a high level creativity and the ability to adapt teaching to meet individual needs
How to apply?
Please complete an online application form in full, remembering to include all employment and education details.
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.
This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.
Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.
Safeguarding Statement
Aurora Summerfields School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.