Role: Teacher
School: Edan Court School, Huddersfield
Full Time: 40 Hours per week
Salary: £30,888.35 - £40,343.96 per annum (Depending on qualifications and experience)
We are looking for passionate, dedicated teachers across multiple subjects to join our team. This is an opportunity to bring your subject expertise and creative teaching approaches to a nurturing environment where you’ll make a profound difference.
About Edan Court School
Edan Court is a brand-new School dedicated to supporting children and young people with special educational needs (SEN). With a planned opening in February 2025, our school will foster a nurturing, inclusive, and inspiring educational experience for up to 24 students, providing them with a safe, supportive space to thrive academically, socially, and emotionally.
Edan Court School is committed to creating an inclusive and supportive workplace that values every team member’s contribution. We are excited to bring together talented, compassionate individuals who are eager to join us on this journey and help shape the future of our students’ education and well-being.
About You
We are looking for teachers who are not only experts in their subject area but also passionate about supporting SEN learners. You should bring patience, creativity, and empathy to this role, and have a strong desire to make a difference in each student's life.
Requirements:
- Qualified Teacher Status
- Evidence of successful teaching experience with vulnerable children.
- Good interpersonal skills and emotional resilience in working with children.
- Up to date knowledge of Local Authority and National expectations for SEND including 2014 SEND Code of Practice including knowledge of EHCP and their implementation.
- Good awareness of and clear ability to safeguard children by developing appropriate relationships, personal boundaries and maintaining discipline.
- Ability to work well unsupervised and use initiative effectively.
- Confidence to review own performance and undertake continuous professional learning.
Key responsibilities:
- Maintain consistently high standards in relation to all aspects of the Teachers’ Standards
- Be responsible for student attainment and progress.
- Ensure Quality First Teaching is central to your practice, accelerates progress and celebrates outcomes.
- To lead a curriculum area throughout school to raise whole school standards and aspirations.
- Plan, teach and deliver an engaging, bespoke, and personalised curriculum underpinned by EHCP need.
- Expertise in delivering a holistic, inclusive, and creative curriculum rooted in unconditional Positive Regard and pupil outcomes.
- Contribute positively to policy and practice.
- Be a role model for our learning community.
- Make a significant contribution and impact in all aspects of school improvement.
- Engage with all school systems professionally to ensure the vision for excellence is maintained.
- Use dedicated time to develop your CPD profile and be the ‘best you can be’.
Benefits of Working for us:
- A rewarding career you can be truly proud of
- A supportive environment that is committed to helping you flourish and deliver excellent care to the people we support
- Competitive pay
- Career development and training
- Progression Opportunities
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave packages
- Employee assistance programme including discounts at retailers
- Free eye care vouchers
If you are passionate about supporting young people with SEN and want to be part of a team dedicated to making a positive impact, explore our vacancies and discover your place at Edan Court School.
Young Foundations are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff to share this commitment. We adopt fair, robust, and consistent recruitment process across the company online with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, satisfactory reference, right to work checks and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
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