Specialist Teacher

Are you interested in autism, adhd, neurodiversity and supporting children with social and emotional needs? Are you looking for an exciting role working with children, families and schools? Are you passionate and committed to ensuring a child's needs are understood and met within mainstream education? We are looking to employ a full time Specialist Teacher within our behaviour support and autism team to work closely with our small team of Specialist Teachers and Outreach Practitioners.
Our aim is to provide support for schools and settings to support children and young people with a range of additional needs (including ASD/ADHD and SEMH needs) to be successfully included in mainstream education. Our work includes a range of approaches from consulting, advising and training for schools and other education settings through to direct work and modelling interactions with children., As part of your role, you will confidently work alongside Outreach Practitioners and our current Specialist Teachers in supporting schools and settings across North Lincolnshire to ensure children's needs are identified, understood and met accurately.
We employ solution focused, child-centred and low arousal approaches in our practice and are looking forward to welcoming the right person to work with us in the role of Specialist Teacher. For more information, please contact tim.mellors@northlincs.gov.uk or telephone
Interview to be held on 29/06/26
Please see attached job description and employee specification which you should refer to when completing your application to demonstrate you meet the essential criteria for the role.
Candidates must be able to evidence their right to work in the UK. Please note the council does not hold a sponsor licence to sponsor people to work in the UK.
As an employer, we promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from existing and prospective employees or volunteers. Recruitment to this post will follow our safer recruitment procedure which includes us requesting references prior to interview and a DBS check.
The Council
We are collectively organised around the people and place of North Lincolnshire. Together we ensure that our communities are safe, well, prosperous and connected. We are ambitious for North Lincolnshire, we want our area to be the #BestPlace for our residents by being the #BestCouncil we can be. We achieve this through living our values - equality of opportunity, excellence, integrity and self-responsibility - in all that we do.

We support children and young people from transition into Reception though to transition out of secondary school. Ideally you will have experience of work across a range of Key Stages, particularly within Early Years and Primary, with some qualifications and/or continuing professional development in the areas of neurodevelopmental differences (autism and adhd) and trauma informed approaches.