Teacher Alternative Tuition Service

When you join us as a 1:1 Teacher within the Alternative Tuition Service (ATS), you'll be encouraged to share your fresh thinking and empowered to explore new ideas that shape both your career and the educational experiences of children and young people in Suffolk.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a successful and vibrant team of teachers working across the county to provide stimulating and creative learning, helping pupils make progress towards positive and successful outcomes.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Teacher in the Alternative Tuition Service, you will:

- work with pupils 1-to-1 or in groups, sometimes in their homes, to plan and deliver blended learning via Microsoft Teams.

- work with a team of specialist teachers who have the knowledge and significant experience in working with a range of pupils with special educational and emotional needs.

- model positive attitudes and relationships to young people and establish a caring, safe and stimulating environment for teaching and learning.

- establish and maintain good working relationships with other professionals within your work and with parents/carers and Local Authority staff.

- respond to the issues that may be affecting the young people's ability to access the curriculum and support them appropriately.

This role is mainly based in the community; however, you may also have the opportunity to work from home occasionally and you will have an office base. If you wish to discuss how that might impact your working arrangements, please contact the recruiting manager listed below., Our service works with vulnerable children and young people who are medically unable to attend school, have been permanently excluded, or are awaiting a specialist placement.

You will be joining a dynamic and committed team of inspirational staff who provide a high-quality educational offer to pupils with a wide range of needs, often complex. You will need to be flexible, creative and resilient, with the ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of the wider team.

The Alternative Tuition Service is a supportive and highly collaborative team of experienced teachers who place pupil needs and voices at the heart of everything they do, ensuring each child receives an inclusive and personalised learning experience.

This role is primarily community-based, although there may be opportunities to work from home on occasion, and you will have access to an office base. If you would like to discuss how this may impact your working arrangements, please contact the recruiting manager listed below.

We will offer you:

- Full support and training to access and use online learning platforms.

- Access to a wide range of professional development opportunities, particularly in SEND.

- Support from a team of dedicated support staff and qualified leads who value and champion the work teachers do with children and young people.

- Opportunities to develop your curriculum knowledge and deepen your understanding of working with children and young people with additional needs., Step 3 - Upload a supporting statement indicating how you meet each of the criteria in the 'Person Profile' section of the JPP.

- You should use the Supporting Statement template (Word).

- Please use Arial font size 11 and keep your statement to a maximum of two sides of A4.

Please note: Without a supporting statement, your interest will not be progressed. Any supporting documents must be in either PDF or MS Word format.

Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).

- A strong commitment to social inclusion and equality of opportunity.

- The ability to inspire pupils to achieve their full potential.

- To be resilient, self-motivated, creative and flexible in your approach.

- Experience as a competent teacher working with vulnerable pupils.

- Knowledge and experience of supporting pupils with a range of special educational and emotional needs.

- Experience of managing potentially challenging behaviour.

- Experience of working in a specialist setting is desirable, but not essential.

Salary: MPR (Mid Pay Range) / UPR (Upper Pay Range), plus SEN allowance, Teachers Pay and Conditions for England, (pro rata)

- Hours: 22.2 hours per week, flexible working options available

- Contract: Fixed Term Contract or Secondment, to cover an absent post holder due to adoption/parental leave, for up to 1 year.

As a modern, flexible and effective organisation, we're driven to make a positive difference to the environment, the communities we serve and the careers of our people., As a modern and effective council, we offer a wide variety of careers to suit people with a range of skills, abilities and ambitions. We offer working options that flex to reflect the way people work today and take the time to understand and support your individual needs. We're driven to make a positive difference to the world around us and encourage everyone with drive and focus to join us and build an influential and impactful career. Reimagine the possibilities.

In return, you'll enjoy:

up to 29 days annual leave entitlement (pro rata), plus UK bank holidays and two paid volunteering days

membership of a competitive Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)

travel, lifestyle, health and wellbeing benefits

performance-related annual pay progression, in addition to an annual cost-of-living pay increase

training and encouragement to expand your knowledge

a variety of career development opportunities across our organisation

diverse and active staff networks

flexible working options, with the right to request flexible working from your first day

Plus lots more!