Lavender Primary School has a big heart. It takes care of its community and is a warm, welcoming place of learning. The school provides a nurturing and highly personalised learning environment where every pupil is supported to achieve their full potential. We are incredibly proud of our inclusive approach which enables all pupils with SEND to thrive. As a respected school within our Trust, our staff are deeply committed to providing exceptional educational experiences. If you have a passion for SEND and the Inclusion Agenda, you will fit right into our dedicated team making a genuine difference to the lives of children and young people every day. We are looking to recruit a SEND class teacher with passion and enthusiasm to lead the provision in our SEND unit for children with complex autism and severe learning difficulties. Key Responsibilities:

• Personalised Learning: Deliver engaging, highly differentiated, and sensory-rich lessons tailored to individual learning needs, ensuring the curriculum is accessed appropriately and effectively for all abilities.
• Staff Leadership: Lead, manage, and deploy a team of support staff to deliver specialist teaching on a 1:1, small group, and whole-class basis.
• Therapeutic & Collaborative Partnership: Work closely within the wider school and Trust teams, partnering with parents, therapists, and external professionals to ensure an integrated, therapeutic approach.
• Holistic Progress: Track incremental successes and contribute directly to EHCP outcomes, assessments, and annual reviews to ensure our pupils thrive.
• Environment: Create a positive, structured, calm, and inclusive learning environment.

We can offer you:

• A fun, collaborative, and highly supportive staff team

• Well established learning culture with high expectations for behaviour and learning

• Collaborative and supportive working environment

• Supportive parents and community

• Well behaved children who enjoy their learning

• Excellent professional development opportunities within the school and the trust

• Chromebook for every teacher. 

We are seeking an innovative, solutions-focused, and highly skilled teacher who possesses a calm and patient demeanour alongside high expectations for pupil outcomes.

The ideal candidate will:

• Be a highly skilled teacher with high expectations for pupil outcomes

• Be committed to collaborative working  

• Understand the importance of raising attainment and developing excellence

• Have knowledge of identifying, evaluating and providing effective provision for pupils with SEND

• Have the resolve and enthusiasm to make a real difference to the lives of pupils

• Be innovative, solutions-focussed and resilient

To arrange a visit, or if you would like to have an informal discussion about the post, you are most welcome to call Jodie Corbett, headteacher on 0208 363 1058.

Lavender school is part of Ivy Learning Trust which is a small, inclusive family of community schools based in North London and Hertfordshire.

We believe in a fair and just society. That is why we offer the very best education to all our children

In all our schools our learning culture creates reflective and resilient pupils who love, and take ownership of, their learning.

We are committed to staff well-being and have made great strides in reducing teacher workload, such as through our innovative and highly acclaimed 'fast feedback' approach to marking.

We offer a culture of care, excellent professional development and exciting career opportunities across the MAT.

This is your opportunity to join a Multi Academy Trust that makes it easy for you to make a difference. ​

Ivy Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding the wellbeing of our pupils and young people. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS and online social media check. Further information about the disclosure can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-barring-service. 

Employment at Ivy Learning Trust is also subject to:

• Satisfactory references

• Barred list check (regulated activity roles)

• Section 128 check (for applicable roles) 

• Overseas criminal records check (where required)

• Identity check

• Right to work in the UK

• Evidence of qualifications applicable to the role

• Confirmation of registration with applicable registered body where applicable