Contract:Permanent
Location: Bedale, North Yorkshire
The Ascent Academies' Trust was founded in 2012 and is a family of six special academies in the North of England, over four different local authorities. We are a collaborative group of academies who work closely with one another in order to achieve the best outcomes for our young people. As a result, our academies have improved year on year and all academies are currently at least Good from an Ofsted rating, with some individual areas rated Outstanding.
This is an exciting time to join our Trust as we look to set out our next steps in creating brilliant schools. We are an ethical Trust whose vision and values are aligned to equality and diversity, collaboration and lifelong learning.
The principal responsibilities of these posts are to contribute to raising standards of pupils' achievement and undertake a range of learning activities. The successful candidates will have some supervisory responsibility of other staff including the provision of training where required. Candidates should be well organised and be able to work as part of a team, have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and be flexible.
Candidates will possess 5 x GCSE A*-C or equivalent including Maths and English.
We can offer you:
- An opportunity to work with highly-skilled professionals who love what they do
- Chance to work with our amazing young people and their families
- Excellent career development and progression opportunities
- Comprehensive induction programme
- Opportunity to work across all ages and abilities within the Trust
- Opportunity to work in settings which value multi-disciplinary ways of working
- Access to a range of subject and SEND specific networks, regionally and nationally
- An exciting and extensive commitment to high quality professional development, identified through a strong appraisal process
- A comprehensive wellbeing and support package for staff
Key Dates:
Closing Date: 9.00am Friday 18th September 2026
Interview date: Tuesday 6th October 2026
Please note - if you are appointed, you will be subject to an online search. You will have the opportunity to address any issues of concern that come up during the search during your recruitment process.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people with Special Needs and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore will be subject to a DBS check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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