Job summary
- Main area
- Class Teacher
- Grade
- Class Teacher
- Contract
- Permanent: Term time only
- Hours
- Full time
- Term time hours
- Job ref
- 260-TP-900-A
- Employer
- Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 33 Daleham Gardens
- Town
- London
- Salary
- Main scale/UPS + SEN + Inner London Weighting
- Closing
- 25/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Class Teacher
Class Teacher
It is a condition of this employment that you must live in and remain a resident of the United Kingdom during your employment with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.
We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health
We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.
As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
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Job overview
Gloucester House has an opportunity for you.
Class Teacher
1 Full time role --- 37.5 hours a week
1 Part time role --- 30 hours a week
Gloucester House is a specialist school with an embedded mental health team. The school is small (21 Children) and provides a unique therapeutic and education package. We are a fully integrated service with mental health and educational staff working closely together to provide a holistic approach for children with social emotional and mental health difficulties.
We can offer you an opportunity to:
- Work in a unique setting which offers an integrated health and education package
- To be part of an innovative, dynamic & supportive team
- Be part of a team that is committed to CPD opportunities in a unique setting.
We are an equal opportunities employer.
For more information on Gloucester House please visit: www.gloucesterhouse.net
Candidates are requested to use the section "Supporting Information" on the application form to set out their reasons for applying and their suitability, referring to the person specification, for this post.
Please note:
The closing date given is a guide. We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.
Main duties of the job
Carrying out the professional duties of a teacher as circumstances may require under the reasonable direction of the headteacher.
1. To teach pupils assigned to him\her, and to exemplify a good standard of classroom practice.
2. To lead and manage a small group of support staff in order to maximise children’s learning and behaviour for learning.
3. To prepare and implement long, mid and short term planning, in line with National Curriculum requirements and the curriculum policy. This will include planning and preparing lessons in advance.
4. To ensure children’s individual needs are catered for though knowing the child’s statement/EHCP and planning accordingly.
5. To ensure appropriate differentiation/personalisation so that pupils of all ability levels are able to access the curriculum in place.
6. To carry out assessment, recording and reporting procedures for all pupils assigned to him\her, including setting targets and writing annual review reports.
7. To contribute to the Integrated Care Plan ensuring Positive Handling Plans are up to date and implemented, and to record progress in relation to these.
8. To promote the general progress and well-being of pupils assigned to him\her.
Working for our organisation
Gloucester House forms part of the Tavistock Clinic and is managed by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. It is a specialist school and CAMHS team which provides education and clinical services for up to 21 pupils aged 5-14 years who have social, emotional and mental health needs, often alongside other learning difficulties such as specific language or literacy difficulties and sometimes more general learning difficulties. Many of our pupils are neurodiverse.
Baseline records show that all pupils are underachieving when they start at Gloucester House. Many of the pupils who attend are from socially disadvantaged backgrounds, some of whom have experienced trauma or other adverse experiences in their early lives. The pupils come from both inner and outer London boroughs.
Gloucester House aims to provide a safe and nurturing environment through an effectively integrated educational and therapeutic approach to promote the holistic development of the children and young people..
All the pupils at Gloucester House have an EHCP, some pupils are looked after or adopted, and many have had multi-agency involvement prior to attending Gloucester House.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualified Teacher Status.
- Experience of working with children with special educational needs; in particular children with social, emotional and mental health difficulties
- Recent successful teaching experience at primary and early secondary level
- Evidence of effective oral and written communication skills.
- Evidence of the ability to ensure good behaviour among children in the classroom and to help to create a positive ethos
Skills
Essential criteria
- An understanding of good teaching practice in primary years and the conditions required to raise levels of achievement.
- An ability to lead and manage a small group of staff to be able to consider plan for and be responsible for progress and containment of a class of up to 7 complex and challenging children
- An ability to create a positive classroom environment that encourages independent working and celebrates achievements
- An ability to work effectively with parents\carers
- An ability to work sensitively, flexibly and collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team and liaise effectively with a clear understanding about the contribution of the teacher’s role in the process.
- An ability to manage a complex workload, which includes monitoring, planning and assessment for the children’s range of needs.
- An ability to understand and promote equal opportunity policies in all aspects of Gloucester House’s life.
- An ability to manage the personal, psychological impact of working with this specific population of disturbed children
- Enhanced DBS clearance
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of legislation in the area of special educational needs.
other
Essential criteria
- The post-holder will be required to undertake an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
TLR
Essential criteria
- 5. TLR requirements For TLR 2 a teacher is responsible for the management of an area of the curriculum, including writing and implementing Action Plans, monitoring and impacting progress in the subject area.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lucy Kemp
- Job title
- Operations Manager Integrated School Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Please contact via email, if require, we can call you back.
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