Teacher (West Drayton)
hace 2 días
West Drayton
At OFG, we believe in creating a better work-life balance! Job Title: Teacher - Maternity Cover\n Location: Yiewsley Grange School, West Drayton UB7 7QP \n Hours: 37.5 per week | Monday to Friday \n Salary: £43,000 per annum (not pro rata) \n Contract: Fixed Term - Until 31st July 2027 | Term Time Only \n Start: November 2026 \n Note: UK applicants only – no sponsorship available About the Role\n Teach Differently. Build Confidence. Help Every Student Discover What They Can Achieve. \n At Hillingdon Grange School – Yiewsley, we’re on the lookout for a passionate and adaptable Teacher to join our specialist education team on a fixed-term maternity cover contract until 31 July 2027. \n This is your chance to teach in an environment where you can truly connect with your students. By working with individuals and small groups, you’ll have the flexibility to tailor lessons to their unique strengths, interests, and needs, helping them overcome barriers and experience meaningful success in education. \n You’ll be working with students with autism and additional needs, combining high expectations with a calm, personalized, and supportive approach. From academic progress to increased confidence, independence, and self-regulation, you’ll help students develop skills that can make a lasting difference. \n As part of a collaborative environment, you’ll work alongside Learning Support Assistants and a multi-professional team, all striving towards the same goal – helping every student thrive. What You’ll Be Doing\n\n • Plan and deliver engaging, personalized lessons for individual students and small groups in line with the school’s curriculum.\n, • Adapt teaching, resources, and learning environments to meet individual needs and enable meaningful progress.\n, • Monitor, assess, and record student progress, using this information to shape future learning and individual targets.\n, • Develop and review Individual Education Plans, behavior plans, and other personalized programs.\n, • Create a structured and supportive classroom where students feel safe, understood, and ready to learn.\n, • Support students in developing confidence, independence, and self-regulation, including those who may display challenging behaviors.\n, • Lead and coordinate Learning Support Assistants and other colleagues to provide consistent and effective support.\n, • Work closely with families and the wider multi-professional team to support each student’s education, development, and wellbeing.\nWhat We’re Looking For\n You’ll bring: \n\n • A relevant teaching qualification.\n, • Experience working within an educational setting and planning and delivering engaging lessons.\n, • Experience supporting students with Autism Spectrum Disorder and/or challenging behaviors.\n, • The ability to tailor teaching and learning around individual strengths, needs, and starting points.\n, • A calm, empathetic, and resilient approach.\n, • Strong communication, organization, and teamwork skills.\n, • The confidence to lead and coordinate others effectively.\n, • A commitment to safeguarding and achieving the best possible outcomes for every student.\nAbout Us\n Yiewsley Grange is one of our Early Years and Primary sites, providing specialist education for children aged 3.5 – 11 years old. Our schools support pupils in the Early Years Foundation Stage, Key Stage 1, and Key Stage 2. \n At Yiewsley Grange, we employ a wide range of teaching strategies to engage learners with diverse learning difficulties and styles. Pupils are taught in smaller class sizes and work towards the Equals Semi-Formal Curriculum and equivalent functional skills qualifications. \n As part of the Hillingdon Grange group of schools, Yiewsley Grange benefits from being one of four sites offering education from early years up to Key Stage 2. The group provides a unique combination of education and support for pupils across a wide spectrum of needs and abilities. By delivering personalized teaching in an autism-specific environment, we ensure that each pupil’s individual needs are fully addressed and their capabilities maximized. Our tailored primary learning environment is designed specifically to support autistic children in reaching their full potential. \n The site is conveniently located in West Drayton, easily commutable from Slough, Windsor, and surrounding areas. \n At Outcomes First Schools, we provide specialist education for learners who need a deeper level of understanding, expertise, and support than mainstream education can typically offer. We support students with a wide range of complex, co-occurring, and neurodivergent needs, including autism, ADHD, SEMH, speech and communication needs, dyslexia, and experiences of trauma or adversity. \n We are proud to be part of OFG Education, which was officially certified as a ‘Great Place to Work’ for the sixth consecutive year in 2025. Why Join Us?\n We place students and vulnerable young adults at the heart of everything we do, so every day brings the satisfaction of making a real difference. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and young people. All applicants will be subject to social media checks, and successful applicants will undergo a fully enhanced DBS check. Benefits Include:\n\n • Life Assurance\n, • Pension scheme with options to increase contributions\n, • “Your Wellbeing Matters” – mental health support and physical health checks\n, • Flexible Benefits Platform (Vista), including:\n \n, • Health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits\n, • Hundreds of UK and international discounts\n, • Cycle to Work Scheme & Electric Car Purchase Scheme\n, • Critical illness cover\n, • Family Growth Support, including enhanced maternity/paternity leave and paid fertility treatment support\n \n\n We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. \n OFG Education is committed to carrying out a fair, thorough, and efficient recruitment process in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education. While we aim to keep applicants informed throughout, OFG Education does not accept liability for any loss of earnings or other associated costs incurred by applicants as a result of delays or changes in the compliance process. All stages of the compliance process are subject to necessary safeguarding checks and compliance with statutory requirements, which may affect timescales.