About the role
Job Title: Specialist Advisory Teachers for SEND
Starting Salary: £31,650 - £50,471 pa - MPS/UPS plus SEN - Hertfordshire's locally agreed Teachers main pay range and upper pay range
Hours: 32.5 hours or 26 hours - Term time only (39 weeks)
Location: Hybrid working, with teaching in the home and other venues across Hertfordshire
Contract Type: Permanent
Directorate: Childrens Services
Would you like to make a difference to the lives of children and young people (CYP) in Hertfordshire?
About the team
Our Specialist Advice and Support Service (SEND SAS) teams work with children and young people with a range of special educational needs, who are not accessing a school placement. This is an exciting opportunity for you to join SEND SAS, who have a vacancy for a Qualified Teacher with expertise in SEND.
About the role
This is a teaching role to support children who are not accessing a school placement, by planning and delivering relevant teaching programmes in their homes or venues on a 1:1 basis or in small groups.
You will be responsible for ensuring that the educational and developmental progress of children, including children with SEND, is met in line with the Hertfordshire Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Strategy and HCC strategic objectives.
You will be teaching children missing education (CME), on EOTIS packages or excluded from school, providing effective high-quality programmes of learning and teaching and liaising with professionals, families, and settings to support reintegration as appropriate.
You will be responsible for your own caseload, organising visits, timetables of work and writing programmes of learning.
This role involves lone working across Hertfordshire and the ability to undertake risk assessments will be key.
About you
We would like to appoint an enthusiastic, self-motivated teacher to join our friendly, experienced teams supporting children and young people in Hertfordshire.
We welcome applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds. Hertfordshire champions Equality and fairness. We are a Disability Confident employer, and we encourage people to contact us using their chosen communication method.
We are interested in teachers with expertise in teaching secondary pupils with co-occurring needs accessing earlier key stages and/or teachers with expertise in teaching children with severe learning difficulties.
Essential requirements:
- Educated to degree level and hold Qualified Teacher Status
- Minimum five years’ relevant and successful teaching experience, including recent classroom experience
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Flexibility and the ability to work independently
- Ability to contribute to the wider team within the Service
- Excellent organisation skills and ability to plan effective programmes of learning for a range of CYP
- Knowledge and expertise across SEND
- Proficiency in ICT
- Full UK driving licence and access to a car
We can offer you a friendly, supportive working environment, a full induction and ongoing professional development.
In this role you can enjoy the support of a very experienced and dedicated team working together to improve the outcomes for children with additional needs. If this seems like the opportunity for you, we welcome your application.
To hear more about this opportunity please contact Andrea.Pascali@hertfordshire.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role.
Interview Date: Wednesday 30th April
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