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**Job Title: SEN Secondary Teacher**
**Location: Brookthorpe Hall School, Gloucester**
**Salary: £36,925.00 - £42,200.00 per annum dependant on
experiencequalifications**
**Hours: 40 hours per week;** **Monday to Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm**
**Contract: Permanent, Term Time only**
**UK applicants only. This role does not offer sponsorship.**
As part of our continued growth, we now have a fantastic opportunity for a SEN
Secondary Teacher to join our close-knit team at Brookthorpe Hall School, part
of Options Autism.
**About the role**
As a SEN Secondary Teacher, you will take a creative approach to teaching
pupils according to their educational needs, ensuring delivery of KS3 and 4
curricula in ways that maximises pupils achievement and ability to develop.
This is an exciting opportunity for a SEN Secondary Teacher who wants to spend
less time on paperwork and more time developing creative learning
opportunities for pupils with varied and complex needs. Your work will be
challenging and rewarding in equal measure, and you will be working in an
environment where we maintain a strong safeguarding culture, where pupils are
listened to, respected and involved in as many decisions as possible.
Quality is always top of our agenda, and we pride ourselves on the quality of
what we do. We are looking for a confident SEN Secondary Teacher who shares
our vision to build incredible futures by empowering vulnerable pupils in the
UK to be happy and to make their way in the world.
Whilst previous experience of working in an SENASC environment would be
desirable, excellent teaching skills and the right motivation, personal
qualities and levels of resilience are just as important.
Key Skills Required:
* Hold Qualified Teacher Status
* Have a background of teaching a range of subjects at Secondary Level, delivering teaching at a good or outstanding level
* Knowledge of current education issues in relation to terms of practise, process and curriculum
* Be experienced in or have an interest working within an SEN setting, supporting pupils with challenging behaviour (SEMHASD)
**Please include examples of relevant knowledge and experience related to this
role in your letter of application.**
**About us**
Brookthorpe Hall School is a specialist provision providing full-time
specialised co-education for young people aged 7 to 16 with a range of complex
needs, communication difficulties and associated challenging behaviour. This
may include social, emotional and mental health needs and also pupils who have
been diagnosed with autism or demonstrate behaviours associated with autism.
For over 16 years Options Autism have provided care and education to pupils,
young people and adults with autism, complex needs and learning difficulties.
As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in setting and
delivering new approaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our
care.
We are really proud to say that in 2024, Outcomes First Group were officially
certified as a ‘Great Place to Work’ for the fifth year running.
**Why join Options Autism?**
**Benefits**
**Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional
reward package including:**
* Life Assurance
* Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
* “Your Wellbeing Matters” – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks
**And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits
Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you,
including:**
* A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
* 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
* Cycle to Work Schemes
* Electric Car Purchase Scheme
* Critical illness cover
* Family Growth Support - inclusive benefits package covering enhanced maternity and paternity leave, along with paid fertility treatment support.
And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the pupils and vulnerable young
adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every
day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on
the lives of others.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and young
people. All applicants will be subject to social media checks and successful
applicants to a fully enhanced DBS.
_***You’ll work 80% of your contractual hours for 100% of your pay, giving you
more time to do the things that make you happy.**_
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