Required as soon as possible, a highly skilled and passionate teacher to develop and maintain the day-to-day running of the Inclusion Resource Base (IRB)
Cotham School is a wonderful and comprehensive school with a student body that fully reflects the city’s diversity. Cotham School provides an excellent well-rounded education for all students that contributes successfully to the achievement and success of its students over many years. Cotham School is founded on its core values of Achievement, Diversity and Respect.
We pride ourselves on our inclusive values and strive for all students, regardless of their background or starting point, to achieve their full potential. We are in the process of further developing our provision to support the growing diversity of needs that we are seeing in our student body. Therefore, we are excited to be planning an Inclusion Resource Base where highly personalised and bespoke support can be offered to our most vulnerable Key Stage 3 students so that they can more easily achieve their potential.
The Inclusion Resource Base will provide an important stepping stone back into the mainstream at Cotham. It will offer an alternative to our mainstream provision for students in need of it for a fixed period of time. The curriculum will be broad and balanced allowing for wider experiences to form part of the well-rounded educational offer with focused support for literacy, reading, numeracy and behaviour.
The postholder will work in collaboration with the SENDCo, Senior Inclusion Manager and Senior Leadership Team in addressing SEMH and/or behaviour needs. They will:
● Support the teaching of English and Maths at KS2 - KS3 level
● Keep track of the progress of students in the IRB, communicating regularly to all stakeholders (parents/carers, teachers, pastoral staff and SLT)
● Line manage the work of the Inclusion HLTA supporting the IRB
Cotham School is a great place to work. We’re a fantastic friendly team, proud of what we achieve and looking forward to welcoming new people to share in our achievements. Join us and you’ll receive a wide range of employee benefits including:
● excellent work life balance with term time working arrangements
● excellent defined benefit pension schemes (Teachers’ pension scheme)
● access to employee assistance programme and counselling sessions
● ongoing learning and development opportunities and access to the school CPD library
● at least 5 inset (training) days per annum with the provision of free onsite drinks and meals
● comprehensive induction process
● competitive salaries which are reviewed annually
● family friendly policies and wellbeing support initiatives
● access to on line gyms and health sessions
● access to staff sports
● option to participate in the cycle to work scheme
● on site free car parking (when available)
● access to free annual flu jab
Cotham School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check.
As a diverse school community, we particularly welcome applicants from underrepresented groups with regards to ethnicity, gender, age and disability.
Closing date: 21 February 2023
Interviews are likely to be held : 24 February 2023
Cotham School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of appointment are conditional on the following:
• Enhanced DBS check
• Satisfactory completion of a Staff Disqualification Declaration form
• Confirmation that you are not subject to either a Prohibition Order or Interim Prohibition Order
• The receipt of at least 2 satisfactory references
• Verification of identity
• Verification of medical fitness
• Verification of qualifications
• Verification of QTS where required
• Verification that they are legally able to work in UK
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account .
Cotham School’s child protection policy and practices and policy on employment of ex-offenders in the application pack can be found on the School website.