ARB Class Teacher
| Posting date: | 23 April 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 May 2026 |
| Location: | Penzance, Cornwall, TR20 8UH |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 8579edd5-9643-4555-b78c-25bce8e0ebf9 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Truro and Penwith Academy Trust, together with Pensans School, are seeking to appoint a dynamic and committed Class Teacher in the ARB teaching team.
You’ll be an experienced SEN teacher with a passion for supporting pupils with special educational needs to access their full potential in this specialist provision within a mainstream school.
All pupils who access the ARB provision at Pensans have an EHCP with a range of special educational needs, in particular with Communication and Interaction.
Working closely with the EYFS/KS1 ARB Teacher, SENCO and other senior colleagues, you’ll use your classroom skills to manage provision in your class and to provide support to others to ensure the best possible learning and personal outcomes for young people with SEN needs in a specialist provision.
This is a diverse role that will see you working alongside your ARB teaching colleague, planning for and teaching pupils across KS2 with an understanding of the different levels at which pupils access their academic learning.
About You:
You will have responsibility for planning engaging topics and lessons which cover the full primary curriculum, ensuring the SEN TAs are appropriately deployed so that all pupils are supported and can reach their full potential while engaging with other professionals to ensure pupil’s targets are met.
You will be an out of the box thinker who can plan creative activities which engage pupils while helping them to move forward within their learning. Inclusive practices are at the heart of all that we do here at Pensans School and you will also be working alongside mainstream colleagues to ensure pupils have opportunities to engage with their mainstream link classes.
You will use a range of assessment formats including Evidence for Learning, Insight and the National Curriculum to track pupils’ progress.
At Pensans ARB we aim to ensure all pupils can apply their skills outside of the classroom. As part of the ARB team you will be leading trips with the pupils and taking learning outside of the classroom where pupils can use the skills they have learned.
Pensans School is set in extensive grounds with a woodland area supporting Forest School activities.
If you feel you have the passion to make a difference to the lives of our children, we would very much like to hear from you. Visits to the school are encouraged – please telephone to arrange a date.
This is an exciting time to join our school. Our staff are our most important resource and the successful candidate will have our full support in their continuing professional development.
To find out more about the School, please visit www.pensansprimary.co.uk
What the school offers its staff
Working for TPAT and Benefits
‘The Trust that Schools want to join’ Ofsted - 2019
We are an inclusive and progressive Trust and believe that all children and young people should have the best possible life chances. If you share this belief, we would love you to work with us.
We care about our staff and value their skills, contribution and expertise. Our commitment to growing great people means that we support staff in their own professional growth and development and empower them through support and career opportunities. Whether you choose to work in one of our schools, or are based in our central team, you will thrive in a stimulating, friendly and diverse environment that nurtures talent and celebrates success.
If you choose to work for us, you will receive:
• A competitive salary
• National terms and conditions of employment and access to either Teachers Pension or Local Government Pension Schemes
• Cycle to work scheme
• Eye voucher scheme
• Access to CPD and career pathways to further develop your career
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides employees with free confidential advice and support on a variety of personal, family or workplace issueshhtps://www.employeeassistance.org.uk/
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.
Truro and Penwith Academy Trust, together with Pensans School, are seeking to appoint a dynamic and committed Class Teacher in the ARB teaching team.
You’ll be an experienced SEN teacher with a passion for supporting pupils with special educational needs to access their full potential in this specialist provision within a mainstream school.
All pupils who access the ARB provision at Pensans have an EHCP with a range of special educational needs, in particular with Communication and Interaction.
Working closely with the EYFS/KS1 ARB Teacher, SENCO and other senior colleagues, you’ll use your classroom skills to manage provision in your class and to provide support to others to ensure the best possible learning and personal outcomes for young people with SEN needs in a specialist provision.
This is a diverse role that will see you working alongside your ARB teaching colleague, planning for and teaching pupils across KS2 with an understanding of the different levels at which pupils access their academic learning.
About You:
You will have responsibility for planning engaging topics and lessons which cover the full primary curriculum, ensuring the SEN TAs are appropriately deployed so that all pupils are supported and can reach their full potential while engaging with other professionals to ensure pupil’s targets are met.
You will be an out of the box thinker who can plan creative activities which engage pupils while helping them to move forward within their learning. Inclusive practices are at the heart of all that we do here at Pensans School and you will also be working alongside mainstream colleagues to ensure pupils have opportunities to engage with their mainstream link classes.
You will use a range of assessment formats including Evidence for Learning, Insight and the National Curriculum to track pupils’ progress.
At Pensans ARB we aim to ensure all pupils can apply their skills outside of the classroom. As part of the ARB team you will be leading trips with the pupils and taking learning outside of the classroom where pupils can use the skills they have learned.
Pensans School is set in extensive grounds with a woodland area supporting Forest School activities.
If you feel you have the passion to make a difference to the lives of our children, we would very much like to hear from you. Visits to the school are encouraged – please telephone to arrange a date.
This is an exciting time to join our school. Our staff are our most important resource and the successful candidate will have our full support in their continuing professional development.
To find out more about the School, please visit www.pensansprimary.co.uk
What the school offers its staff
Working for TPAT and Benefits
‘The Trust that Schools want to join’ Ofsted - 2019
We are an inclusive and progressive Trust and believe that all children and young people should have the best possible life chances. If you share this belief, we would love you to work with us.
We care about our staff and value their skills, contribution and expertise. Our commitment to growing great people means that we support staff in their own professional growth and development and empower them through support and career opportunities. Whether you choose to work in one of our schools, or are based in our central team, you will thrive in a stimulating, friendly and diverse environment that nurtures talent and celebrates success.
If you choose to work for us, you will receive:
• A competitive salary
• National terms and conditions of employment and access to either Teachers Pension or Local Government Pension Schemes
• Cycle to work scheme
• Eye voucher scheme
• Access to CPD and career pathways to further develop your career
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides employees with free confidential advice and support on a variety of personal, family or workplace issueshhtps://www.employeeassistance.org.uk/
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.