Teacher, Elementary School

Cherry Tree School is a new special school in Walsall, offering the highest quality of education for up to 75 children (3-19) with a range of additional needs.

We are looking to recruit an SEN Primary Teacher who will join us on this exciting journey, enabling the school to grow and evolve. We are seeking a Teacher who ‘just gets’ children, has a marvelous sense of humour and who has the flexibility and determination to ensure that Cherry Tree is the first choice of school for children, parents and local authorities.

Our aim is to provide innovative and enjoyable education, therapy and early intervention for pupils, sometimes (and only where appropriate) enabling them to successfully return to mainstream schooling, but always helping them to become happy, positive and valuable members of society.

Cherry Tree School enables pupils to access a curriculum that offers a personalised education rooted in social and emotional development, rich in speech and language, enabling the very best achievement both personally and academically.

• Planning & delivering engaging lessons according to pupils’ educational needs
• Using behaviour management strategies in line with Cherry Tree policy and procedures, which contribute to a purposeful learning environment for pupils appropriate to their age and special needs
• Maintaining discipline in accordance with the rules and disciplinary systems of the school
• Creating and maintaining a purposeful, orderly and supportive learning environment for all pupils, particularly helping to overcome barriers to learning
• Observing, monitoring and evaluating pupil responses to learning activities through a range of assessment and monitoring strategies determined by the head teacher
• Adopting a flexible approach to meet the varied needs of the pupils in the classroom and participating in any physical activities as appropriate
• Contributing to meetings, discussions and management systems necessary to co-ordinate the work of the school as a whole
• Promoting the inclusion of all pupils, ensuring they have equal opportunities to learn and develop and seek to ensure the implementation of the school’s equal opportunities policy
• Be responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and staff within the school

• Shows empathy and patience for children who exhibit challenging behaviour
• Has a natural ability to solve problems and manage/modify the behaviour of children
• Is organised, flexible, resilient, physically fit and un-shockable
• Displays a good, down to earth, sense of humour

• Wonderful, thriving pupils
• A happy, humorous and supportive staff team
• Excellent career progression opportunities
• The National Teachers’ Pension
• A high level of support from a very experienced team of Teaching Assistants, Teachers and Senior Leaders
• Initial training for aspects of the role with which you are not familiar with
• The opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of pupils and their families
• A comprehensive on-going training package

We do not require an experienced SEN Teacher, as comprehensive training will be provided and the level of support provided will enable the post holder to develop very quickly. Thus, we welcome applications from Teachers from Mainstream or Special, Primary or Early Years School settings, who are looking for something different. The recruitment process is about finding the right personality with huge amounts of potential, who will be as excited as we are about developing and expanding our group of schools.

Cherry Tree School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with current and past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

We are an equal opportunities employer.