Sen Teacher

Long-Term Opportunity Starting Mid-June (Open to September start)

Supply Heroes are currently recruiting on behalf of a welcoming and supportive school seeking an experienced SEND Teacher for a long-term role starting mid-June (Open to September starts).

This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to take a leading role within the school’s Enhanced Learning Provision. The successful teacher will be supported by two experienced additional adults and will play a vital role in supporting pupils with a range of complex communication and learning needs. For the right candidate this role has the potential to also go permanent.

The Role

The successful candidate will:

- Lead and deliver engaging, personalised learning within the Enhanced Learning Provision

- Support pupils with complex SEND needs, particularly around communication and language development

- Work collaboratively with experienced support staff and the wider school team

- Implement evidence-based strategies and interventions tailored to pupils’ EHCP outcomes

- Create a calm, nurturing and highly structured learning environment

Ideal Candidate

The school is looking for a SEND Teacher with strong knowledge, understanding and, ideally, practical experience in several of the following areas:

Communication & Language Support

- Strong understanding of communication and language development

- Everyday functional communication approaches

- Breaking information into manageable chunks with calm repetition of instructions

- Modelling turn-taking through motivating games and activities

- Intensive Interaction

- Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) strategies

- Use of objects of reference

Visual & Structured Support Approaches

- Now and Next boards

- Symbols and photos

- Visual timetables

- Makaton

- Communication / ALD boards

- Colourful Semantics

- SCERTS (Social Communication, Emotional Regulation and Transactional Support)

Sensory & Multisensory Learning

- Attention Autism (Bucket Time)

- Zones of Regulation

- Sensory Circuits

- Fine motor interventions such as Dough Disco

-Multisensory teaching approaches including:

- Sand, shaving foam and water play

-Tapping out sounds

- Active learning strategies

- Air writing and sensory tracing

- Pre-tutoring of key concepts

The Opportunity

This role offers the potential for a longer-term leadership opportunity within the provision for the right candidate. Further training and support can be provided; however, experience in several of the above approaches would be highly beneficial in enabling pupils to be effectively supported from the outset.

If you are a passionate and experienced SEND Teacher looking to make a meaningful impact within a specialist provision, we would love to hear from you.

About Supply Heroes:

• Excellent rates of pay on PAYE
• Around the clock support whenever you need it
• Commitment to a quality of service and safeguarding
• Support with any interviews and lesson observations
• Transparency and honesty
• Exclusive job roles around the West Midlands

If you are interested in this role, please apply now with your CV.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults in line with the DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’. Therefore, applicants will be subject to a variety of checks, including an enhanced DBS check (unless on the update service) along with a variety of others including an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This job advert is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and complies to the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

Supply Heroes is an equal opportunities employer with a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination, bullying or harassment on grounds of sex, age, race, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, gender reassignment, sex characteristics, religion or beliefs.