English Teacher in Orpington

There is no better time to start a career within Teaching than now! Would you like secure employment where you can progress your career? If you would like to build a career that gives you genuine sense of achievement and fulfilment knowing that you can have a positive impact on the young people we support, then look no further and apply today!

Woodview School are looking to recruit an outstanding English Teacher to join our Secondary Teaching team with a start date of September 2026.

We are looking for an ambitious, energetic and committed teacher who will expand the learning experiences of our pupils. The successful candidate will be teaching and supporting our young people who may have autism, emotional behavioural difficulties, ADHD and associated complex needs.

Our onsite benefits include free breakfast and lunch from our onsite chef as well as onsite parking. Our other benefits include exclusive access to reward and discount scheme, comprehensive induction, commitment to your ongoing training and career progression, Teacher pension scheme, paid for enhanced DBS, wellbeing support, cycle to work scheme and more!

Set in its own private grounds, Aspris Woodview School provides holistic support to children and young people aged 7 to 19 years with autism. The curriculum design enables students to follow a broadly mainstream curriculum to accredited qualifications, preparing them for adulthood and the world of work.

As part of Aspris Children’s Services, we are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. We ask that you can demonstrate the values needed for a role, transferable skills and life experience and in return we will give you all the training and support you need to progress. We strongly believe in developing our own talent and growing our teachers into successful middle and senior leaders.

Requirements / What you will bring

• The Successful Candidate Will Be a Qualified Teacher And Ideally Have Experience Of Teaching And Supporting Young People Within SEN, Along With The Following Characteristics:
• Resilience: We support some of the most vulnerable children in society who have varying degrees of emotional behavioural difficulties, autism, ADHD and associated difficulties so there will be times where your resilience is challenged.
• Communication: Communicating with our young people is vital to understand their needs. Good teamwork and communication plays a key part in ensuring important information is relayed to other staff.
• Organisation: You will have experience of organising, planning and teaching well-structured lessons tailored to the needs of the pupils as well as monitoring each student's learning needs, adapting teaching to respond to the strengths and needs of each pupil.
• Caring: Our young people require the best care we can offer. If you are a naturally caring and compassionate person, this is the role for you.
• Attentive: No two tasks will be the same so being attentive to understand the needs of the young people we support is vital.

Above all, we provide a supportive and collaborative working environment where you can flourish in your career and feel incredibly rewarded by helping those who need it most. If you want to progress your career in Education, Aspris Children’s Services will help you get there.

Aspris is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with Disclosure & Barring Service and at least 2 references which cover the last 3 years; for all our services we will request references from where you have worked with either Children or Vulnerable Adults. Please be advised that references may be requested prior to interview for roles within our Schools.