Job Description

Special Educational Needs Teacher

35 Hours / 39 weeks

Competitive Salary for Outstanding Teacher and SEN allowance

Sunfield Garden School and Children's Home sustains a distinguished historical legacy in the beautiful Clent Hills, West Midlands. Sunfield's farm, walled garden and woodlands provide excellent opportunities for outdoor learning and practical activities. Sunfield is part of Ruskin Mill Trust.

Established in 1984, Ruskin Mill Trust is an educational charity that operates in England, Scotland and Wales. We offer exciting outdoor learning environments, utilising practical land and craft activities to support the development of work and life skills in young people with autistic spectrum conditions and other learning differences. Our research-led method, Practical Skills Therapeutic Education, is inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner, John Ruskin and William Morris. Working with hand, head, heart and place, Ruskin Mill Trust helps individuals to re-imagine their potential.

The School provides:

A child-centred curriculum, adapted to each child's developmental and learning needs, and the opportunity to discover each child's path to lifelong learning Offering of a variety of educational programs designed to meet the needs of students with developmental delays, social and sensory sensitivities, and learning challenges. This outdoor curriculum is derived from an approach which braids together the insights of Rudolf Steiner with the National Curriculum and Practical Skills Therapeutic Education method of the Ruskin Mill Trust.
This post will suit someone who has:

Significant experience in teaching children with SEND and ideally within a Steiner school environment (although not essential) who wishes to join this unique school. In return we offer significant personal development opportunities to work within a holistic organisation that is complex and growing on a national scale and the satisfaction to significantly improve the lives of young people and their families. A flexible and professional approach to work is required.
We provide an in-depth induction programme to enable our new team members to experience the Practical Skills Therapeutic Education (PSTE) curriculum and also opportunities for academic research including our own MSc in PSTE.

Working at Ruskin Mill Trust is incredibly rewarding; we offer competitive salaries and holiday allowances, an auto-enrolment pension scheme with a salary sacrifice option, a health cash plan and employee assistance programme via Medicash.

In addition, staff receive valuable training opportunities including an in-depth interactive induction to enable our new team members to experience our Practical Skills Therapeutic Education (PSTE) curriculum and also opportunities for further training and academic research including our own MSc in Practical Skills Therapeutic Education.

Full details of our benefits can be viewed on www.rmt.org/careers

INDHP

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 30,000.00-45,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension Cycle to work scheme Discounted or free food Health & wellbeing programme On-site parking Referral programme
Application question(s):

Are you able to reliably commute to us using your own transport? We have very limited public transport links Do you have QTS? This is an essential requirement We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role, do you have full rights to work in the UK?
Work Location: In person