Our client is looking to appoint a well-qualified and visionary lead teacher for Autism to provide learning to students with Autistic Spectrum Condition and to coordinate and develop the work of a team of professionals who are employed in the Autistic Resource Centre (ARC). The appointment will ideally begin in August 2019 and will run for the academic year.
The successful candidate will have experience of working with SEN or autistic students and will be an excellent classroom practitioner who understands the importance of a differentiated approach to teaching and learning and who has the desire to undertake, and deliver, further training.
The ideal candidate will have the drive and determination to ensure that the students in ARC make the best of the opportunities offered to them in order that they can operate successfully in a large academy, with high expectations of behaviour and effort, and access the mainstream curriculum.
This post will suit a classroom practitioner who would like to pursue their career in SEN or in a pastoral function, such as Head of Year.
This client;
* is graded an outstanding school (Ofsted 2015) with high standards of behaviour
* is a highly successful and heavily over-subscribed school in south west London
* provides excellent quality and well-resourced facilities
* 90% English and Maths GCSE at grade 4 or better in 2018, 52% achieve the EBACC qualification and we achieved a Progress 8 measure of +0.99
* has the highest performing Sixth Form in the Borough of Wandsworth for the past 5 years
* offers excellent opportunities for career development
* is close to the A3, and 2 train stations for easy commuting
All appointments are subject to enhanced DBS clearance