English Teacher (SEND)

English Teaching Lead

Full time Term time ( 40 hrs per week/40 wks per year)

Salary range: £41,820 to £45,900 per annum

To be considered for this position, please complete our online application form at rmt.org/jobs

We have an exciting opportunity for an English Lead to join the team at Brantwood Garden School.

Brantwood Garden School is an exciting and innovative provision which offers full time education to children who have significant/complex social, emotional or educational difficulties. At Brantwood Garden School students will learn through a dynamic outdoor land and craft-based curriculum, which includes practical skills; textiles, green woodwork, pottery, cooking and blacksmithing with a significant period of time involved in growing biodynamic produce in the school gardens and looking after the farm animals.

We are seeking a Special Education Teacher and leader who specialise in the subject area of Literacy who as part of the school’s middle leadership will take the lead to plan, co-ordinate and quality assure in their given area. This is to ensure that the subject is consistently well planned throughout the school and quality assured on a regular basis. In this role you will be ensuring the pupils engage in learning and achieve by providing practical, experiential and therapeutic education through careful planning of the structure, methodology and delivery of the learning experience.

In order to be successful in this role you will:

• Qualified Teacher Status, subject leader experience of co-ordinating, leading and quality assuring your subject area of Literacy/English.
• Experience of the National Curriculum framework of assessment
• Excellent communication and organisational skills and a practical approach to engaging pupils.
• Experience of working with children with learning difficulties and/or learning disabilities.
• Experience working across multiple key stages and preparing students for examinations and assessment.

Working at Ruskin Mill Trust is incredibly rewarding; we offer competitive salaries and holiday allowances, an auto-enrolment pension scheme with a salary sacrifice option, a health cash plan and employee assistance programme via Medicash.

In addition, staff receive valuable training opportunities including an in-depth interactive induction to enable our new team members to experience our Practical Skills Therapeutic Education (PSTE) curriculum and opportunities for further training and academic research including our own MSc in Practical Skills Therapeutic Education.

Full details of our benefits can be viewed on www.rmt.org/careers

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service Enhanced Level Disclosure as well as a medical check, references, evidence of qualifications, plus verification of the right to work in the UK.