SEN Teacher

SEN Teacher

Location: Torton Kidderminster

Contract Type: Fulltime Permanent

Hours: 40 hours per week

Annual Salary:31650..00 (M1 UPS2*

Closing Date: 28th April2025 at 9am

Start date: September 2025

The Aurora Group

The Aurora Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities.

About Aurora Wilden View

Are you ready to make a transformative impact in the lives of young people with SEMH needs and associated challenging behaviour linked to Autistic Spectrum Conditions Do you have the ambition and drive to inspire the next generation who have already experienced a turbulent time prior to joining us Can you be their stability and their champion If so we want you to join our dynamic and collaborative team at Aurora Wilden View!

Aurora Wilden View is a beautiful purposeful school set in a 20 acre site with huge potential as we celebrate our one year anniversary since opening. We want to offer the best for our young people and this means enhancing our curriculum offer and ensuring our young people have access to a wide range of pathways to allow them to move to the next stage of their development.

The Role:

We are looking for a passionate inspirational and engaging Teacher KS3/4/5to deliver high quality teaching and learning experience to our wonderful young people both inside and outside our classrooms. Our therapeutic approach based upon PACE and Thrive helps our students feel safe to break down barriers and access their learning in our home from home setting.

We recognise our young people want the same opportunities as their peers and we are therefore taking all the best parts of mainstream education and making it even better within our specialist environment. We are now ready to further develop our curriculum and are looking for a teacher to work collaboratively with our existing teaching staff. We are looking for additional teachers to teach: Computing Humanities Maths English Life Skills PSHE and/or PE (Any combination of subjects would be considered)

Do you have the experience and skills to develop this curriculum for our young people Would you work effectively with our Deputy Head who leads curriculum to make our offer even better. If so we want to hear from you! Whether you are experienced teacher or an Early Career Teacher we recognise that relationships are key and putting the right person with our pupils is the most important thing. Therefore we want the best person for the role to meet the needs of our young people.

We are seeking an exceptional individual who is not only highly motivated but also possesses the following experience and skills:

• A fervent desire to enhance the lives and skills of our students.
• Ability and Experience to deliver engaging learning experiences for SEMH learners
• Experience or awareness of Thrive and Therapeutic teaching approaches.
• The ability to lead on the development of curriculum areas up to and including Post 16.

Key duties:

• The successful candidate will be required to teach a range of these curriculum areas as well as develop the Long term medium term and short term curriculum alongside our Senior Team.
• Contribute to the delivery and development of the curriculum having regard to the educational physical and social needs of the students within a learning environment.
• Work collaboratively with other members of staff as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Maintain and use short medium and long term plans in delivering the curriculum.
• Set monitor and review personalised targets that will optimise learning for each individual.
• Monitor assess review and report on the progress and work of students to parents team members senior staff examination and funding bodies through reports and identified meetings as directed and as is required through school policies and procedures.
• Maintain knowledge through training and research where appropriate and take responsibility for own professional development.
• Develop lesson plans analysing and selfreflecting on the outcomes.
• Contribute to the review of Statements and EHC plans PEP and LAC reviews.

Essential:

• PGCE Qualified Teacher Status or equivalent teaching qualification and evidence of inservice training
• Experience of working with pupils with SEMH or ASC needs or significant SEND and challenging behaviour
• Experience of delivering up to GCSE and Post16

Desirable:

• Postgraduate diploma in SEN
• Experience of successfully delivering a differentiated curriculum to pupils with a wide range of needs
• Experience of teaching in a specialist environment

Whats on offer

• Training and Development

Within Aurora we strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people we support. We offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all our employees to improve your skills and further your career.

• on your bills!!

With the cost of living rising we have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further. Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are. You can get deals and discounts to on things like your weekly food bill phone plans internet eating out gym memberships insurance and more. You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme.

• Competitive Pay and Reward

Every year we compare the market rates of pay and rewards to ensure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations. We also offer Enhanced Annual Leave Company Sick Pay Pension and Life Assurance.

• UK Health Cash Plan

This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills. You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.

• Employee Assistance Programme

Your health and wellbeing is very important to us and we have support available on a wide variety of issues helping you with online tools information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7.

• Refer a friend for 1000

Well reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company *terms apply)

How to apply

Please complete an online application form in full remembering to include all employment and education details. If you need any assistance or would like any more information please contact Karen in the Aurora Group Recruitment Team at.

*Within Aurora we support teacher professional development by offering Upper Pay Scale both to teachers joining the company and through our internal professional development and performance management process.

To be offered a role on Upper Pay Scale we will expect you to:

• provide evidence that you are already receiving an Upper Pay Scale salary.
• Hold specific allocated responsibility once you have completed your induction that contributes to whole school improvement including the overall raising of standards in the school and demonstrate their ongoing commitment to their own CPD.

Details of the relevant area of responsibility will be discussed with you at interview and further when you join the company.

Successful applicants will be subject to preemployment 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.