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SEND Primary Teacher (Pre-verbal Pupils with Sensory Needs)
| Posting date: | 14 May 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 May 2025 |
| Location: | Sandhurst, Berkshire, GU47 0TA |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 065f1976-a37e-47a8-9abb-5ef9febbfd31 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you a passionate and nurturing teacher with experience or a strong interest in working with pupils who have profound communication and sensory needs? Join our dedicated team and make a real difference.
We are seeking a committedSEND Primary Teacherto join our specialist provision forpre-verbal pupilswho experiencesevere sensory processing delaysand complex needs. This role offers the opportunity to work within a highly supportive multidisciplinary team, delivering meaningful and individualised learning experiences that support communication, regulation, and engagement.
Key Responsibilities:
• Plan and deliver a sensory-rich, engaging curriculum tailored to pre-verbal learners.
• Use a total communication approach, including AAC, objects of reference, sensory stories, Makaton and intensive interaction.
• Create and maintain a calm, safe, and predictable environment that meets sensory and regulatory needs.
• Collaborate with speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, and other professionals to support pupils’ development.
• Lead and support a class team of experienced and dedicated teaching assistants, ensuring consistent strategies and high-quality care.
• Monitor and assess pupil progress using EHCP outcomes and semi-formal/pre-formal curriculum pathways.
We Are Looking for Someone Who:
• Is a qualified teacher (QTS/QTLS) with experience or a strong interest in teaching pupils with SEND, particularly those with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) or autism.
• Has knowledge of sensory integration and communication strategies for pre-verbal learners.
• Is calm, patient, and adaptable with excellent teamwork and leadership skills.
• Is passionate about inclusive education and every child’s right to learn, however they communicate.
What the school offers its staff
We Offer:
• A supportive and experienced inclusion team.
• Ongoing CPD opportunities including training in sensory processing, communication methods, and trauma-informed practice.
• Small class sizes and high adult-to-pupil ratios.
• A caring, child-centred school committed to inclusion and holistic development.
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed.To arrange a visit or to request an application pack, please contactKelly Potter, School Business Manager atsbm@owlsmoorprimary.comor on01344 776642
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Are you a passionate and nurturing teacher with experience or a strong interest in working with pupils who have profound communication and sensory needs? Join our dedicated team and make a real difference.
We are seeking a committedSEND Primary Teacherto join our specialist provision forpre-verbal pupilswho experiencesevere sensory processing delaysand complex needs. This role offers the opportunity to work within a highly supportive multidisciplinary team, delivering meaningful and individualised learning experiences that support communication, regulation, and engagement.
Key Responsibilities:
• Plan and deliver a sensory-rich, engaging curriculum tailored to pre-verbal learners.
• Use a total communication approach, including AAC, objects of reference, sensory stories, Makaton and intensive interaction.
• Create and maintain a calm, safe, and predictable environment that meets sensory and regulatory needs.
• Collaborate with speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, and other professionals to support pupils’ development.
• Lead and support a class team of experienced and dedicated teaching assistants, ensuring consistent strategies and high-quality care.
• Monitor and assess pupil progress using EHCP outcomes and semi-formal/pre-formal curriculum pathways.
We Are Looking for Someone Who:
• Is a qualified teacher (QTS/QTLS) with experience or a strong interest in teaching pupils with SEND, particularly those with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) or autism.
• Has knowledge of sensory integration and communication strategies for pre-verbal learners.
• Is calm, patient, and adaptable with excellent teamwork and leadership skills.
• Is passionate about inclusive education and every child’s right to learn, however they communicate.
What the school offers its staff
We Offer:
• A supportive and experienced inclusion team.
• Ongoing CPD opportunities including training in sensory processing, communication methods, and trauma-informed practice.
• Small class sizes and high adult-to-pupil ratios.
• A caring, child-centred school committed to inclusion and holistic development.
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed.To arrange a visit or to request an application pack, please contactKelly Potter, School Business Manager atsbm@owlsmoorprimary.comor on01344 776642
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.