Call/email Alisdair at School Staffing Solutions Recruitment to get an application form and to receive a full job description
This special needs school is part of a UK wide group of 28 Special Needs Schools.
They have an amazing benefits and will pay for all your training.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
- Experience of working with children or young people with an Autistic Spectrum Condition and SEMH
- Experience or knowledge of delivering provision through the EHCP process
- Horticultural, gardening or permaculture design experience, with a focus on organic and sustainable growing methods.
- Ability to create outdoor learning sessions around seasonal planning,
- Plan, resource and deliver outdoor learning sessions with differentiated learning
- Understanding of links between PSHE and outdoor learning
- Ability to document and evaluate sessions
- Previous experience of working with or teaching pupils in KS2 to KS5
- Previous experience of working in an outdoor Learning context
Benefits:
- Full training and continued support
- Opportunity to gain qualifications, which will be funded by us!
- Free lunch during your working day
- Perkbox subscription
- Life assurance and pension
- Car lease scheme
- Bike to work scheme
- Free parking
- Free membership to our Health cash back plan – Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.
Key duties:
- Developing and planning a dynamic, engaging and holistic outdoor learning curriculum that can be differentiated according to the age, stage and the specific needs of our students.
- Creating schemes of work that integrate horticulture, crop planning and organic growing, forest gardening, sustainable construction and infrastructure development, practical sustainability and other relevant outdoor learning activities.
- Collaborating with teachers and other support staff to identify and create cross-curricular opportunities for outdoor learning.
- Take lead on the School’s Eco-Schools Award group and accreditation.
- Deliver Land-based units and relevant vocational qualifications as part of the schools BTEC vocational Award qualification.
- Implementing and facilitating outdoor learning experiences that promote independence, creativity, and social interaction.
- Providing guidance and support to teachers in incorporating outdoor learning opportunities and Eco-Schools links into their planning
- Assessing and monitoring student progress in outdoor learning, providing feedback and adapting teaching strategies as needed.
School Staffing Solutions Ltd is acting as an employment business for this position.
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and we are therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are “spent” unless they are “protected” under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.
As a result of the volume of applications, If we have not contacted you within two weeks of your application being received, then regretfully your application will not be taken forward on this occasion.