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Form of workDo you have green fingers?
Are you creative and live local?
Passion for developing young people’s knowledge in horticulture?
Starting Salary: Unqualified/Instructor Inner London pay scale point 1-4: £25,831 - £32,640 dependent on any previous teaching experience.
(Scale range inner London scale point 1- 6, £25,831 - £37,362 annual increments dependent on performance)
Permanent position, term time only
Required for: September 2024
Belvue School is a secondary special school for young people with moderate and severe learning difficulties. We are committed to providing an outstanding and inclusive education for the young people and have a positive and stimulating environment with a range of wonderful learning opportunities. We offer a very broad and yet personalised curriculum in order to meet the needs of each learner and allow them to achieve their potential. The school has exceptional outdoor and woodland learning spaces and strong community partnerships.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an individual to join our staff team in our Horticulture department. Your role will be to prepare and deliver exciting and engaging horticulture lessons whereby horticulture can be used as a therapeutic tool to support pupils with emotional difficulties including trauma. It is therefore essential that you are educated to degree standard in a related subject area. You will work alongside highly experienced teachers from whom you will learn from and develop high quality teaching strategies that differentiate learning to meet a wide range of SEN needs in a creative and age appropriate style.
You must be passionate about working with young people with special needs and have high levels of energy and enthusiasm to inspire and motivate young people to learn and thrive. You must possess excellent communication and personal skills, and be able to build supportive and trusting relationships with pupils, families and colleagues.
In return you will be joining a creative and professional staff team and you will find your role challenging, stimulating and rewarding. The school is committed to CPD which will ensure that you develop professionally. You will receive mentoring, professional support, effective feedback and opportunities for reflection.
Closing Date: Noon, Friday 5 July 2024
Interview Date: Thursday 11 July 2024
You can find out more about working at Belvue School and how to apply by clicking on Apply.
Belvue School is committed to upholding the highest possible safeguarding standards and follows safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults. The Successful candidate will be required to apply for an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service.
Also in line with KCSIE 2023 and safer recruitment practices, the school may conduct an online search for all shortlisted candidates. The online search is part of our safeguarding checks and will seek publicly available information on candidates’ suitability to work with children. Shortlisted candidates will be provided with further guidance and will be asked to clarify their online presence
This post is exempt from the rehabilitation of offender’s act 1974, which provides that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are protected so that they do not need to be disclosed. Shortlisted candidates are required to complete a self-declaration form. It is an offence to apply for this role if the applicant is barred from engaging
