Specialist Teacher STLS Team Fulltime Special Needs Position

Job Description

Pay: MPS/UPS plus SENA Start Date: September 2021We are looking for a Specialistteacher for Communication and Interaction to join our dynamic SpecialistTeaching and Learning Service based at Goldwyn School Ashford. The successful candidate will havean enthusiasm, commitment and drive to ensure the best possible outcomes forChildren and Young People (CYP) with Special Educational Needs & Disability(SEND); have good communication skills and a solution focus approach to supportworking collaboratively with professionals in statutory and non-statutoryorganisations and supporting schools, groups and individuals to foster aninclusive ethos/principles to meet the needs of all students. Resilience andflexibility are essential. Candidates should have specialistknowledge and experience of C&I, either in a mainstream or special schoolsetting, across age ranges. The ability to travel to meet therequirements of the role is essential. There will be an expectation togain appropriate specific relevant advanced SEND qualification alongside acomprehensive CPD programme. Closing Date: 12/05/2021 at 12:00Interviews: 17.05.21 Information about the STLSThe Specialist Teaching andLearning Service is based at Goldwyn School in Ashford. The Team is comprisedof Specialist Teachers with specialisms in Early Years, Cognition and Learning,Social Emotional & Mental Health, Communication and Interaction, HearingImpairment and Visual Impairment. The Specialist Teaching and Learning Serviceaims to work with SENDCos and other professionals to provide high qualityadvice, support, information, training and outreach to mainstream pre-schoolsettings, schools and parents through the LIFT (Local Inclusion Forum Team)referral process. We work alongside pre-schoolsettings, schools and other professionals in providing effective andco-ordinated support. Our aim is that children and young people with SpecialEducational Needs can have their learning, physical, social and emotional needsmet, so that they can be fully included at school and make good educationalprogress. Goldwyn School is committed to thehighest standards in safeguarding procedures and promoting the welfare of everystudent and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.References may be taken up beforeinterview and the successful applicant will undertake an enhanced DBS check.Information about the schoolGoldwyn is a pioneering schoolthat provides an exciting, high achieving and creative curriculum for studentswho have social, emotional and health needs. Every child at Goldwyn is uniqueand it is our mission to design a learning pathway that reflects highaspirations as well as encouraging their inherent talents through music, art,languages, technology, science, sport, vocational education and much more. TheGoldwyn leaders and all our staff are inspirational and committed to providinga happy, secure and stimulating school in which students enjoy their learning.We provide an education which develops the whole child academically, sociallyand emotionally. We focus our energies on ensuring that all children aim for excellencein their work and are able to achieve the very best that they can. Goldwyn School is a KCC FoundationSpecial School for children and young people with an EHCP for SEMH needs fromage 11 to 18. Students who are admitted to the school have complex and wideranging difficulties and come from a wide range of socio-economic backgroundsand a wide geographical area. Goldwyn School is an OutstandingSchool for students with SEMH needs, and consists of: Goldwyn Ashford in Great Chart,Ashford (TN23 3BT)Goldwyn Folkestone in ParkfieldRoad, Folkestone (CT19 5BY)Goldwyn Sixth Form in LeaconRoad, Ashford, Kent (TN23 4FB)Goldwyn Plus in Beaver Lane,Ashford (TN23 5NX) (our alternative curriculum programme)Our School and all its personnelare committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children. Thispost is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure andBarring Service. KTJ1