Maths Teacher with Maths Lead Responsibilities

This is an exciting opportunity to join Brantwood Garden School as a Maths Teacher with Maths Lead responsibility. The school provides a child-centred curriculum, adapted to each child’s developmental and learning needs, and the opportunity to discover each child’s path to lifelong learning, offering a variety of educational programs designed to meet the needs of students with developmental delays, social and sensory sensitivities, Autism, SEMH and learning difficulties.

We are seeking a Special Education Teacher and leader who specialises in the subject area of Numeracy. In this role you will be ensuring the pupils engage in learning and achieve by providing practical, experiential and therapeutic education through careful planning of the structure, methodology and delivery of the learning experience. Your role is to ensure the school’s success and continual improvement in the subject. You will maintain the highest standards of learning and achievement in accordance with statutory and Ofsted requirements, and the vision and method (Practical Skills Therapeutic Education) of Ruskin Mill Trust.

In order to be considered for this role you will have:

• Qualified Teaching Status
• Subject leader experience of co-ordinating, leading and quality assuring your subject area of numeracy/maths
• Experience of teaching up to GCSE level Maths
• Experience of the National Curriculum framework
• Experience of working with young people with differing needs and destination aims, and developing appropriate strategies to help them achieve their goals
• Excellent communication and organisational skills with practical approach to engaging pupils
• Experience of working with children/young people with special educational needs and learning disabilities
• Experience working across multiple key stages
• Demonstrable experience in line managing staff to support high‑quality teaching and learning
• Experience preparing students for examinations and assessment

Working at Ruskin Mill Trust is incredibly rewarding; we offer competitive salaries and holiday allowances, an auto-enrolment pension scheme with a salary sacrifice option, a health cash plan and employee assistance programme via Medicash. In addition, staff receive valuable training opportunities including an in-depth interactive induction to enable our new team members to experience our Practical Skills Therapeutic Education (PSTE) curriculum and opportunities for further training and academic research including our own MSc in Practical Skills Therapeutic Education.

Brantwood Garden School is located on the outskirts of Sheffield. In addition to the main campus it includes a smallholding and a theatre/performing arts space. The curriculum at Brantwood includes clay work, jewellery making, felting and weaving, forge work and green woodwork. Brantwood Garden School is part of Ruskin Mill Trust. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service Enhanced Level Disclosure as well as a medical check, references, evidence of qualifications, plus verification of the right to work in the UK.