Barbering Teacher in Rochester

Are you passionate about your field of expertise and want to share this with the next generation of Barbers? Are you able to pass on knowledge in a way that makes it fun for young people to learn? Do you want to be a part of a new way of teaching and a courageous team developing the UK’s first secure school?

We are offering an exciting opportunity for a teacher of barbering and/or hair and beauty to join the team in contributing to and delivering an outstanding curriculum at the UK’s first secure school. We are looking for people with experience of teaching or a career in trade looking to make a transition into teaching and make a difference to the lives of children in custody. Whilst the role is advertised as full time, we can consider flexible working requests such as part time working by the successful candidate.

Oasis Restore represents a revolution in youth justice: an opportunity for children within the criminal justice system to experience a truly restorative environment, that creates the potential for them to thrive in the future. As a founding teacher, you will play a key role in designing and delivering a curriculum that provides a nurturing, therapeutic and educational community that embeds hope, stability, and opportunity for children in our care.

Your role as a teacher will be integral to the progress of all children at Oasis Restore, to deliver a skills-based curriculum, which will enable children to explore a potential future in the trade and promote independent self-care skills. You will be responsible for outstanding teaching that develops curious and dedicated learners and meets their individual needs and interests.

You will have the opportunity to deliver a second subject area, developing your own practice with the necessary support to deliver consistently outstanding teaching. You will launch and continuously contribute to a creative curriculum underpinned by progressive pedagogies, in line with the national curriculum and a variety of formal qualifications, setting a true gold standard for learning.

You will be an integral part of a passionate, committed, and ground-breaking multidisciplinary team, working integratively towards improving the outcomes for children so often overlooked. Together, we will devise strategies to empower children to take ownership of their own learning journeys, so preparing them for successful transitions into the next phase of their journey.

You will teach class sizes of 5 children, with the support of two additional staff to tailor learning support to each student in specially designed education buildings with brand new equipment, technology and software. As a champion of restorative practice, you will place relational connection at the heart of everything you do.

Our Secure School Oasis Restore is the UK’s first secure school that is a proof-of-concept policy initiative funded by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and the Youth Custody Service. Oasis Restore’s mission is to transform the life chances of children aged 12-18 years in the criminal justice system through delivering psychologically informed, integrated practice that centres on trusted, safe relationships between staff and children.

Benefits to Staff:

• Class sizes of approximately 5 children, with 2 additional support staff
• A minimum of 15% planning, preparation, and assessment time (PPA)
• Use of brand new, specially designed classrooms and ICT suite with course-specific software.
• Reduced teacher workload, exams and at home marking expectation
• A mixture of one to one and group reflective practice, coaching & supervision sessions as well as regular line management.
• Experience an Appraisal policy that decouples pay and performance.
• An elected staff forum to listen to, and act on, staff feedback.
• Access to a competitive defined benefit pension scheme.
• 40 days annual leave including bank holidays.
• Paid time off to attend antenatal appointments.
• Structured and bespoke induction training plan plus a training offer leading to a level 4 qualification in the therapeutic care of adolescents.
• Up to 5 days discretionary paid compassionate/emergency/general leave.
• Access to an eye care vouchers scheme, season Ticket Loans, a cycle to work scheme and free car parking.
• Westfield Health healthcare cash plan and a wide range of employee discounts.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks including references and right to work checks.

At Oasis Restore we recognise that our team is strengthened by the knowledge, experience and insights people from a wide range of backgrounds can bring. We aim to attract and retain the very best diverse talent and role models to help create an innovative, caring and extraordinary working environment for our staff.