TC035-4425
| Posting date: | 06 October 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £32,433 to £49,944 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 October 2025 |
| Location: | Merthyr Tydfil, Merthyr Tydfil County |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | TEACHER Learning Resource Base – Primary complex needs/ASD base. |
Summary
YSGOL GYMRAEG RHYD Y GRUG
Aberfan
Merthyr Tydfil
CF48 4NT
Headteacher: Alwen Bowen
Required for January 2026
TEACHER
Learning Resource Base – Primary complex needs/ASD base.
Teacher’s Main scale
Plus Special Needs Allowance 1
At Ysgol Rhyd Y Grug we believe in creating a supportive, inclusive learning community where everyone achieves success in a happy, safe and respectful environment. We aim to develop reflective, ambitious and confident learners who seek and enjoy challenges. We encourage everyone to be creative, innovative and independent.
The Governors of Ysgol Gynradd Rhyd Y Grug are seeking applications from suitably qualified teachers to work in our LRB class. An enthusiastic and highly motivated teacher is required to work with primary age pupils with complex needs / autistic spectrum disorder / communication difficulties.
The successful candidate will:
• Be an excellent classroom practitioner with a knowledge and understanding of ASD/complex needs and with at least 2 years’ experience of working in a teaching capacity within a Primary school.
• Be caring, positive and make our children’s learning fun and enjoyable
• Be highly motivated and hold high expectations of our children’s wellbeing, achievements, and attitudes to learning
• Be able to work as part of a committed hard-working team.
• Establish and maintain positive relationships with staff, pupils, parents, the Governing Body and the wider community.
• Experience of planning for and teaching children with Additional Learning Needs, learning and social communication.
• Fluency in both Welsh and English.
A relevant qualification in the field of additional learning needs would be an advantage. A candidate without an additional learning needs qualifications that has a desire to work with ASD/complex needs pupils, would be required, if appointed, to give an understanding to follow an appropriate course of training, whenever the LA could make the necessary arrangements.
For further information regarding the above vacancy, please contact the Headteacher Alwen Bowen on 01685 351818 or the ALN Manager Jill Watkins on 01685 726221.
Closing date: 17th October 2025
Shortlisting will take place: Week commencing 20th October 2025
Interviews: To be confirmed
This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
Application forms can also be completed online at www.merthyr.gov.uk
If you do not have access to the internet, application forms can be obtained by telephoning 01685 725199 and are to be returned no later than Friday 17th October 2025 to HR Administration, Civic Centre, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 8AN.
Email: Human.ResourcesAdmin@merthyr.gov.uk
Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council is committed to protecting and safeguarding the most vulnerable people in our community. Rigorous pre-employment checks are undertaken for all appointments as part of our recruitment and selection process.
All employees are required to comply with their individual and organisational responsibilities under the Data Protection Act, the Information Security Policy and relevant supporting operational policies. Any matters of a confidential nature must not be disclosed or passed to any unauthorised persons or third party under any circumstance either during or after employment except in the proper course of your employment or as required by law, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council or both. Ard October 2025ny breach of confidentiality may lead to disciplinary action.
We value diversity in our workforce and consider ourselves to be an Employer of Choice, committed to promoting and integrating equality of opportunity into all aspects of our work. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage applicants from all groups and backgrounds to apply and join us at Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council. We are strongly committed to eradicating discrimination in the workplace and ensure that no unlawful discrimination occurs in the recruitment and selection process on the grounds of age, disability, sex, race, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, religion or belief, gender identity and expression, and pregnancy and maternity.
Aberfan
Merthyr Tydfil
CF48 4NT
Headteacher: Alwen Bowen
Required for January 2026
TEACHER
Learning Resource Base – Primary complex needs/ASD base.
Teacher’s Main scale
Plus Special Needs Allowance 1
At Ysgol Rhyd Y Grug we believe in creating a supportive, inclusive learning community where everyone achieves success in a happy, safe and respectful environment. We aim to develop reflective, ambitious and confident learners who seek and enjoy challenges. We encourage everyone to be creative, innovative and independent.
The Governors of Ysgol Gynradd Rhyd Y Grug are seeking applications from suitably qualified teachers to work in our LRB class. An enthusiastic and highly motivated teacher is required to work with primary age pupils with complex needs / autistic spectrum disorder / communication difficulties.
The successful candidate will:
• Be an excellent classroom practitioner with a knowledge and understanding of ASD/complex needs and with at least 2 years’ experience of working in a teaching capacity within a Primary school.
• Be caring, positive and make our children’s learning fun and enjoyable
• Be highly motivated and hold high expectations of our children’s wellbeing, achievements, and attitudes to learning
• Be able to work as part of a committed hard-working team.
• Establish and maintain positive relationships with staff, pupils, parents, the Governing Body and the wider community.
• Experience of planning for and teaching children with Additional Learning Needs, learning and social communication.
• Fluency in both Welsh and English.
A relevant qualification in the field of additional learning needs would be an advantage. A candidate without an additional learning needs qualifications that has a desire to work with ASD/complex needs pupils, would be required, if appointed, to give an understanding to follow an appropriate course of training, whenever the LA could make the necessary arrangements.
For further information regarding the above vacancy, please contact the Headteacher Alwen Bowen on 01685 351818 or the ALN Manager Jill Watkins on 01685 726221.
Closing date: 17th October 2025
Shortlisting will take place: Week commencing 20th October 2025
Interviews: To be confirmed
This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
Application forms can also be completed online at www.merthyr.gov.uk
If you do not have access to the internet, application forms can be obtained by telephoning 01685 725199 and are to be returned no later than Friday 17th October 2025 to HR Administration, Civic Centre, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 8AN.
Email: Human.ResourcesAdmin@merthyr.gov.uk
Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council is committed to protecting and safeguarding the most vulnerable people in our community. Rigorous pre-employment checks are undertaken for all appointments as part of our recruitment and selection process.
All employees are required to comply with their individual and organisational responsibilities under the Data Protection Act, the Information Security Policy and relevant supporting operational policies. Any matters of a confidential nature must not be disclosed or passed to any unauthorised persons or third party under any circumstance either during or after employment except in the proper course of your employment or as required by law, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council or both. Ard October 2025ny breach of confidentiality may lead to disciplinary action.
We value diversity in our workforce and consider ourselves to be an Employer of Choice, committed to promoting and integrating equality of opportunity into all aspects of our work. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage applicants from all groups and backgrounds to apply and join us at Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council. We are strongly committed to eradicating discrimination in the workplace and ensure that no unlawful discrimination occurs in the recruitment and selection process on the grounds of age, disability, sex, race, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, religion or belief, gender identity and expression, and pregnancy and maternity.