Jewish Studies Teaching or Support Role
(KS2/KS3 teaching/support within a creative and amended curriculum)
Part-time (2 days equivalent)
Required for: ASAP
Working Days: Monday- Thursday (the equivalent of 2 days within)
Pay is based on experience: MPS for qualified teachers, UQT for unqualified teachers and Support salary based on roles and responsibilities.
Gesher School is a unique all-through school that provides a specialist, meaningful, and functional learning environment for young people with special educational needs. These needs include language, communication, and social-pragmatic difficulties. We specialise in autism spectrum challenges (ASC).
Young people are at the heart of Gesher School, where we foster a sense of belonging and community. Our school offers a happy, safe, friendly, and stimulating environment in which young people are supported to learn, interact and have fun. We believe that all young people have the potential to achieve, but that every child is individual and requires a tailored, young person-centred approach to learning.
The Gesher approach is warm, friendly, and nurturing. Emotional health and resilience, as well as developing young people’s independence and learning, are at the core of our vision.
To deliver and achieve these outcomes, we want to add a confident, enthusiastic and highly motivated Jewish Studies KS2/KS3 educator to join our expanding team at Gesher as a teacher and/or teaching support. This post would suit a passionate, dynamic and adaptable individual who ideally has experience teaching and leading within a SEND environment.
This post would suit someone passionate about creating meaningful personalised learning that meets all individual needs and interests. The right candidate would be open to working within a transdisciplinary team, including teachers, therapists, teaching assistants, parents, and carers.
It would be desirable for the candidate to have experience designing/delivering interactive learning opportunities that focus on engaging students and connecting them with their faith. In addition, the candidate would need to be an upstanding role model of positive morals and values to help the students build confidence in their sense of self and become builders of meaningful relationships.
This position offers fantastic opportunities to develop your skills as a practitioner within an innovative, supportive and collaborative team environment.
We can offer you the following:
- Paid half day Friday closure in the winter months
- 12 weeks paid holidays plus paid extra Jewish holidays throughout the year
- Monthly well-being events and inset days
- Additional days off awarded following long service
- Protected time for planning and preparation
- Regular social opportunities
- A Competitive salary
You will be a fully integrated and integral member of the whole school team. See us in action here: https://vimeo.com/407682934/a9a6af1bc8 and http://gesherschool.com
Being part of our learning community, you will be able to use your creativity and shape the way our school provides excellent learning opportunities for our young people.
For further information, please visit www.gesherschool.com.
Please email [email protected] for an application form and any further information.
Interviews will be organised on a rolling basis. This ad may be withdrawn if a suitable candidate is identified.
Diversity is a core value of Gesher School. We believe the power of diversity enriches all of us by exposing us to a range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and to discover, design and deliver solutions. As such, we actively encourage people from a variety of backgrounds to apply for roles at our school.
Gesher School is committed to safeguarding young people and staff. Successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
The Post Holder Will:
- be passionate and secure in their Jewish knowledge and confident with differentiating and personalising Jewish learning
- be comfortable planning and delivering high quality hands on learning within a supportive team environment
- be comfortable with reading, writing, speaking and teaching Hebrew
- be a proven, successful team player with excellent motivational and interpersonal skills
Main Areas of Duties and Responsibilities
- To work within a team to deliver high quality Jewish Studies learning across KS2 & KS3
- To promote the Jewish ethos, values and middot throughout the school and be a personal and professional role model for our students
- Planning and supporting the implementation of Enrichment Days (school celebration of festivals), Tefillah throughout the school day and Shabbat/Havdallah/Chagim assemblies
- To support children with their Hebrew Reading.
- To work alongside the teaching and learning team to accelerate pupil progress and raise attainment
- To support teachers with building cross curricular links, embedding Jewish learning within the projects.
- To support the implementation of the B’nei Mitzvah program at Gesher.
- To engage in performance management and attend training and meetings as part of professional development.
- To keep informed of the latest Jewish Education trends and implement appropriate strategies/schemes through training staff.
- To develop established and new partnerships beyond the school to support curriculum learning and development within the Jewish Community.
- To liaise with parents and support them in their child’s Jewish education
- To carry out responsibilities/duties with regard to Equal Opportunities, Safeguarding and Health and Safety Policies.
For further information, please visit www.gesherschool.com.
To apply, please complete an application form that can be found here: https://gesherschool.com/about-us/join-our-team/.
Please complete and return your application to [email protected]. CVs will not be accepted.
Interviews will be organised on a rolling basis. This ad may be withdrawn as a suitable candidate is identified.
Diversity is a core value of Gesher School. We believe the power of diversity enriches all of us by exposing us to a range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and to discover, design and deliver solutions. As such, we actively encourage people from a variety of backgrounds to apply for roles at our school.
Gesher School is committed to safeguarding young people and staff. Successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
