Teacher in Centre for Pupils with Moderate Learning Difficulties

SEN Teacher

Hounslow Town Primary School

School Road, Hounslow TW3 1QX

• Role: Permanent
• Expected start date: April 2025
• Salary: Teachers MPS + SEN Point

We are looking to appoint a caring and professional SEN Teacher to join our team at Hounslow Town Primary School. You’ll have an enthusiasm for supporting learners with differentiated needs, providing learning support with a positive and inclusive outlook, and managing sometimes complex behaviours within a structured learning environment to ensure differently-abled learners can reach their full potential.

This post involves working with a team of staff in the Moderate Learning Difficulties Centre (MLD) and with all staff throughout the school.

The details of the post are organised into the following key areas:

Development of the Centre

The teacher will:

• Collaborate with staff in maintaining a positive ethos in which all staff has high expectations for all pupils.
• Ensure all pupils have access to a broad, balanced and inclusive curriculum that meets their needs and helps prepares them effectively for adult life.
• Keep up to date with new thinking and good practice in Primary and SEND education.
• If requested be able to contribute to the School Development Plan and SEND Self Evaluation.
• Have an overview of the delivery of inclusive education for the Centre pupils throughout the school and ensure that there is consistency in quality and approach for every pupil.
• Work with the Head of Centre in setting appropriate objectives and targets for all pupils in the Centre.
• Use data to report on the needs of the Centre pupils in order to demonstrate pupil progress.
• Assist in the evaluation of the effective teaching and learning for all Centre pupils.
• Support with open evenings, parent workshops and school events to promote effective partnerships with parents.

Teaching and Learning

The teacher will:

• Plan, prepare and teach in the Centre for MLD in accordance with the school policies.
• Be able to write clear pupil reports, targets, annual reviews and Educational Health Care Plans (EHCP).
• Personalise and plan teaching and learning for each individual child, linked to the objectives set in the child’s own EHCP/annual reviews and ensure it is in sufficient detail to meet their specific needs.
• Be accountable for raising attainment and improving the rates of progress for the pupils that they teach.
• Ensure that realistic expectations are set for Centre pupils and are consistently followed.
• Rigorously track pupil progress to ensure pupils make at least good progress against their personal targets.
• Ensure all children have access to the full curriculum, in accordance with the school policies on equality.
• Organise learning environment to promote children’s learning and displaying children’s work to celebrate their achievements.
• Use ICT consistently as a tool to help develop Centre pupils’ basic skills and monitor the curriculum
• Ensure the pupil voice of Centre pupils is heard and taken into account by the Centre and school.
• Work closely with parents involving them in their child’s learning.
• Clear commitment to continued professional development.

HOW TO APPLY:

Please view the attached Person Specification and Application Form.

Completed applications forms should be emailed to office@hounslowtownprimary.co.uk by the closing date.

Closing date: 17th January 2025

Interviews: week beginning 27th January 2025