Job summary
Gloucester House forms part of the Tavistock Clinic and is managed by the North London Foundation Trust. It is a specialist school and CAMHS team which provides education and clinical services for up to 21 pupils aged 5-14 years who have social, emotional and mental health needs, often alongside other learning difficulties such as specific language or literacy difficulties and sometimes more general learning difficulties. Many of our pupils are neurodiverse.

Children and young people at Gloucester House have full-time education together with a clinical care plan that may include individual or group work. All families have a clinical case coordinator and Parents, and Carers are offered 1:1 and/or family interventions or group sessions as appropriate. The case coordinator also links with the wider professional network in the community. Placements are often between 1-3 years and Gloucester House works with the referring authority in identifying next placements supporting transition and integration. The school can offer long-term placements as required.

Main duties of the job

• To teach pupils assigned to him/her, and to exemplify a good standard of classroom practice.
• To lead and manage a small group of support staff in order to maximise children's learning and behaviour for learning.
• To prepare and implement long, mid and short term planning, in line with National Curriculum requirements and the curriculum policy. This will include planning and preparing lessons in advance.
• To ensure children's individual needs are catered for though knowing the child's statement/EHCP and planning accordingly.
• To ensure appropriate differentiation/personalisation so that pupils of all ability levels are able to access the curriculum in place.
• To carry out assessment, recording and reporting procedures for all pupils assigned to him/her, including setting targets and writing annual review reports.
• To contribute to the Integrated Care Plan ensuring Positive Handling Plans are up to date and implemented, and to record progress in relation to these.
• To promote the general progress and well-being of pupils assigned to him/her.
• To maintain good order and discipline among the pupils and to safeguard their health and safety both on and off Gloucester House premises.

About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

The post holder will be aligned with our values:

• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job responsibilities

• To create an attractive, stimulating and well-ordered classroom.
• To work closely with other professional members of staff to create an integrated programme for all pupils assigned to him/her.
• To be able to demonstrate reflective practice.
• To work as part of the multidisciplinary team demonstrating curiosity about emotional barriers to learning and how to work with these utilising expertise and input from clinical colleagues.
• To participate in meetings, including the Annual Review, curriculum development, education team meetings, whole team (i.e. educational and clinical team) meetings, consultation and supervision.
• To contribute to, and follow Gloucester House policies and procedures.
• To evaluate his/her own teaching and to participate in arrangements for his/her further training and professional development as a teacher, including appraisal.
• To participate in field study trips where required.
• To participate in assemblies/circle times.
• For TLR 2 a teacher is responsible for the management of an area of the curriculum, including writing and implementing Action Plans, monitoring and impacting progress in the subject area.

Person Specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential

• Qualified Teacher Status

Experience
Essential

• Experience of working with children with special educational needs; in particular children with social, emotional and mental health difficulties
• Recent successful teaching experience at primary and early secondary level
• Evidence of the ability to ensure good behaviour among children in the classroom and to help to create a positive ethos.

Experience Skills/Knowledge
Essential

• An understanding of good teaching practice in primary years and the conditions required to raise levels of achievement.
• An ability to lead and manage a small group of staff to be able to consider plan for and be responsible for progress and containment of a class of up to 7 complex and challenging children.
• An ability to create a positive classroom environment that encourages independent working and celebrates achievements

Desirable

• Knowledge of legislation in the area of special educational needs.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).