About the role
Watling View School
Part-Time Teacher (0.6, 3 days a week)
Salary Details: MPS/UPS (Fringe Allowance) + SEN Allowance
Date Required: September 2025
Watling View is a Good (Ofsted, March 2020) maintained special school for children and young people aged 3-19 with severe and profound learning needs including autism, complex physical disabilities, high health needs, and sensory impairments and associated communication and learning needs.
We are looking for a part time class teacher who:
- Has a passion for teaching and learning
- Is an outstanding practitioner
- Has energy and drive, who can develop and deliver personalised learning for each child, lead a team of teaching assistants, lead in professional meetings and discussions and contribute to whole school developments.
- Are committed to their own professional development
- Have a positive attitude to their life, their work and their colleagues as well as the children and families they work with.
- Are self-motivated, but collaborative, sharing and open, who look for solutions rather than problems
- Wants to help change the lives of children and young people with Severe and Profound Learning Difficulties
We are proud of our:
- Extraordinary pupils
- Innovative, dedicated staff
- Excellent support and encouragement from Governors and the Senior Leadership Team
- Varied and superb quality professional development (CPD)
- School community that continually strives to improve
- Ethos of focusing on positive learning behaviour and high expectations for all pupils and staff
We can offer you
- 109 amazing children and young people
- Great teaching assistants
- High quality CPD
- A warm, positive environment
- A supportive team
- A school that continuously seeks opportunities to improve
- Membership to Herts Rewards, our employee benefits scheme including discounts and cashback for high street shops and online shopping
- Subscription to our comprehensive Healthcare and Wellbeing package
- Generous pension provision
- Optional Childcare Vouchers scheme
- Annual Occasional Day
- Various staff social events during the academic year
- Long service awards
- Free on-site car park
The Successful Candidate will:
- Model outstanding classroom practice
- Be passionate about ensuring that pupils get the very best education at all times
- Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Motivate and support colleagues and work collaboratively with professionals from a range of outside agencies
- Have a range of people management skills and an ability to tackle issues and be accountable and responsible for decisions
- Have the commitment to improve the lives of children and young people and develop individuals
Watling View is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.
Appointment to this post is subject to satisfactory clearance of enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks, including the barred list, as well as all other pre-appointment checks in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (2024).
Please contact the school office for further information and to talk to the Head teacher. Applications can be made online at www.teachinherts.com or you can contact the school office for an application pack. e-mail: admin@watlingview.herts.sch.uk. Please do not send CV’s without a completed application pack as they will not be considered. No agencies.
Visits to the school are usually highly recommended. Please call Jo Roberts 01727 850560 #6 to arrange a call and you can visit our website www.watlingview.herts.sch.uk
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