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We are a very special school. Our teachers tell us how much they value working in a positive and collaborative culture; the small class sizes; the purpose-built environment and the opportunity to design a meaningful and creative curriculum around our pupils.
Do you have excellent specialist, EYFS, or primary knowledge and experience, or an interest in supporting pupils with profound and complex needs? Are you interested in moving into special education?
We are looking to grow our amazing team. Wyvern is a purpose-built school, truly in the heart of its community; the choices you make with the pupils and the creativity you bring to the classroom will give the children the opportunities they deserve.
At the Wyvern our vision is to provide a bespoke education tailored to each pupil, delivered in a creative and nurturing environment, inspiring all who work and learn with us to develop their full potential. Working in partnership with families, we aim for all children and young people to flourish and to lead as full, interesting, and independent lives as possible, leaving Wyvern with a strong sense of who they are and where they belong in the world.
Learning can look different for everyone; learning is continuous and enabled by the broad curriculum, therapeutic interventions, and the environment the school and staffing team create. It’s only through your awesome teaching that we will create that environment together to ensure the pupils progress towards a happy life that they can enjoy.
You will be part of an inclusive and collaborative team that work together, no matter what the challenge may be and are ready to face it head on and are committed to seeing it through - together.
So why should you choose Wyvern Academy?Wyvern Academy is a special school for pupils with profound, complex, and severe learning difficulties, it an important part of the local community, caters for 90 children between 2 and 19 years of age who have an Education and Health Care Plan. Our pupils have a social communication and interaction difficulties, associated Speech, Language and Communication Difficulties (a neurodiverse profile), medical needs, global learning delay and high levels of anxiety and / or associated challenging and distressed behaviour and this is why they deserve you.
You will have the opportunity to develop your career within the school and through partnerships with TADSS and SWALSS.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. Please ensure a full work history is completed in your application form including any gaps of employment. Applicants will be required to complete satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) check is required for this post prior to commencement. The Trust is an equal opportunities employer.
If successfully shortlisted the HR Department will also be conducting an individual online search including social media platforms of your ‘name, education and employment’, to demonstrate due diligence following the updated ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023' guidance. The search will not form part of the actual shortlisting process and any concerns arising from the search will be discussed directly with you.
Visits to the school are welcomed, please contact the school on 01305 817917 to arrange an appointment.
Closing date: 13th May 2024
Interview date: W/C 20th May 2024
To become part of our journey, please contact jobs@wyvern.email to receive an application pack.
Further Information
Wyvern Academy values the diversity of our workforce and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.
Wyvern Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; this is a commitment which we expect all staff and volunteers to share. The successful candidate will be required to have a Disclosure and Barring Service check in line with the Governments safer recruitment guidelines.
This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
Keeping Children Safe in Education
Wyvern Academy will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. All aspects of social media and internet searches will be conducted. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.
