Gesher School is a unique all-through school that provides a specialist, meaningful, and functional learning environment for young people with mild to moderate 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. This post would suit a passionate, dynamic and adaptable individual who ideally has experience, or is interested in, teaching and leading within a SEND environment. 

This post would suit someone passionate about creating and delivering meaningful personalised Jewish 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. 

The Post Holder Will:

• be passionate about Judaism, secure in their Jewish knowledge and confident with differentiating and personalising Jewish learning
• be comfortable supporting or developing skills to plan and deliver high quality hands on learning within a supportive team environment
• be comfortable with reading, writing, speaking and teaching basic Hebrew
  
• be a proven, successful team player with excellent motivational and interpersonal skills

Main Areas of Duties and Responsibilities

1. To work within a team to deliver high quality Jewish Studies across KS2 & KS3
2. To promote the Jewish ethos, values and middot throughout the school and be a personal and professional role model for our students
3. Planning and supporting the implementation of Enrichment Days (school celebration of festivals), Tefillah throughout the school day and Shabbat/Havdallah/Chagim assemblies
4. To support children with their Hebrew Reading.
5. To work alongside the teaching and learning team to accelerate pupil progress and raise attainment
6. To support teachers with building cross curricular links, embedding Jewish learning within the projects. 
7. To support the implementation of the B’nei Mitzvah program at Gesher. 
8. To engage in performance management and attend training and meetings as part of professional development.
9. To keep informed of the latest Jewish Education trends and implement appropriate strategies/schemes through training staff.
10. To develop established and new partnerships beyond the school to support curriculum learning and development within the Jewish Community.
11. To liaise with parents and support them in their child’s Jewish education
12. To carry out responsibilities/duties with regard to Equal Opportunities, Safeguarding and Health and Safety Policies.

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, with off-site PPA 
• Professional Development opportunities, as well as a robust CPD program 
• Regular social opportunities
• A competitive salary 

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.