Class Teacher
| Posting date: | 08 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 May 2025 |
| Location: | Liverpool, Merseyside, L25 2RY |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 31ca1644-db6f-423d-842a-576293fafac6 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
The post holder must, at all times, carry out his or her duties and responsibilities in accordance with the aims of the School and in such a manner as to enhance the good reputation of the School. We are seeking to appoint a teacher who:
• has experience and/or ability to offer a range of curriculum areas across KS2 in addition supporting a small number learners at KS1
• makes positive relationships
• is an exceptional classroom practitioner
• excellent communication skills, with students, staff, parents and external agencies
• committed to the development of every child within an inclusive environment
• effective use of pastoral skills to support the needs of a range of pupils
• can work as a flexible member of a team
• able to organise and work independently and manage resources effectively
• interested in or have experience of working with children with SEMH
• is supportive of a non-exclusion policy
What the school offers its staff
Would you like a new challenge in an outstanding friendly and supportive SEMH school? Hope School is a special school for pupils with Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties (SEMH). Pupils range from aged 5 - 11 years. Hope School is unique because of its non-exclusion policy and the fact that we will never exclude a child from school. We feel this is particularly important as our pupils as they have often attended many other schools. Traditionally focusing on behaviour management, Hope School has moved away from this and now focuses on attachment responsive practice, believing that behaviour management became more focused on developing the pupils’ intrinsic motivation rather than relying on external controls, such as rewards and sanctions. Whereas following attachment friendly practice allows pupils to become intrinsically motivated to want to learn and do well. Pupils tell us they enjoy coming to school. We offer a creative based curriculum which meets the holistic needs of individual students, this is changed frequently. We know that our pupils work best when they are challenged in their learning and the curriculum is based around this. We work closely with parents and carers of children in the school, each are given the opportunity to access training on attachment and trauma. It is really important to recognise that schools cannot repair or replace an insecure attachment to a primary caregiver, but what they can do is provide a safe base where children and young people can develop a sense of trust in adults and confidence in themselves. We provide stability and safety at school, but we work closely with parents and carers in developing rewarding attachment relationships with the children in their care. Hope School successfully maintained being an outstanding school on 4th December 2024. Our latest Ofsted report can be found at on our school website: http://www.hopeschool-liverpool.co.uk/ofsted-information. Staff welfare is of high importance, staff are offered supervision by an external provider monthly in addition to a leadership team who have open dialogue around mental health of all. Additional CPD for staff also underpins this ethos whether it is CBT, yoga or mindfulness to name a few.
Commitment to safeguarding
Hope School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the pupils and expects all staff to share this commitment. Copies of our Safeguarding and Child Protection policies are available on the school website. Any appointment will be subject to appropriate references and enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) clearance.
The post holder must, at all times, carry out his or her duties and responsibilities in accordance with the aims of the School and in such a manner as to enhance the good reputation of the School. We are seeking to appoint a teacher who:
• has experience and/or ability to offer a range of curriculum areas across KS2 in addition supporting a small number learners at KS1
• makes positive relationships
• is an exceptional classroom practitioner
• excellent communication skills, with students, staff, parents and external agencies
• committed to the development of every child within an inclusive environment
• effective use of pastoral skills to support the needs of a range of pupils
• can work as a flexible member of a team
• able to organise and work independently and manage resources effectively
• interested in or have experience of working with children with SEMH
• is supportive of a non-exclusion policy
What the school offers its staff
Would you like a new challenge in an outstanding friendly and supportive SEMH school? Hope School is a special school for pupils with Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties (SEMH). Pupils range from aged 5 - 11 years. Hope School is unique because of its non-exclusion policy and the fact that we will never exclude a child from school. We feel this is particularly important as our pupils as they have often attended many other schools. Traditionally focusing on behaviour management, Hope School has moved away from this and now focuses on attachment responsive practice, believing that behaviour management became more focused on developing the pupils’ intrinsic motivation rather than relying on external controls, such as rewards and sanctions. Whereas following attachment friendly practice allows pupils to become intrinsically motivated to want to learn and do well. Pupils tell us they enjoy coming to school. We offer a creative based curriculum which meets the holistic needs of individual students, this is changed frequently. We know that our pupils work best when they are challenged in their learning and the curriculum is based around this. We work closely with parents and carers of children in the school, each are given the opportunity to access training on attachment and trauma. It is really important to recognise that schools cannot repair or replace an insecure attachment to a primary caregiver, but what they can do is provide a safe base where children and young people can develop a sense of trust in adults and confidence in themselves. We provide stability and safety at school, but we work closely with parents and carers in developing rewarding attachment relationships with the children in their care. Hope School successfully maintained being an outstanding school on 4th December 2024. Our latest Ofsted report can be found at on our school website: http://www.hopeschool-liverpool.co.uk/ofsted-information. Staff welfare is of high importance, staff are offered supervision by an external provider monthly in addition to a leadership team who have open dialogue around mental health of all. Additional CPD for staff also underpins this ethos whether it is CBT, yoga or mindfulness to name a few.
Commitment to safeguarding
Hope School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the pupils and expects all staff to share this commitment. Copies of our Safeguarding and Child Protection policies are available on the school website. Any appointment will be subject to appropriate references and enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) clearance.