SEN Teacher - Running Deer School
- Multiple Locations
- Multiple Terms
- £31,000 per annum (actual) including holiday pay
Required to start September 2025.
About Running Deer CIC
Running Deer CIC is a not-for-profit community organisation based in Dartmoor National Park, which supports adults and children with learning and social, emotional and mental health difficulties, disabilities, and those not in education, employment or training. We provide access to education, training, volunteering, life skills opportunities, and work experience through a variety of outdoors-oriented projects.
Running Deer School
Running Deer School is an Independent School based in the woodland on the edge of Dartmoor that provides a bespoke therapeutic education. We aim to empower ambition and purposeful growth, in school and beyond for the young people of Devon and Plymouth.
Running Deer’s practical skills and therapeutic education enables young people to overcome barriers to learning; designed to stimulate and challenge them, supporting their personal development, improving confidence, self-esteem, communication, social skills and emotional well-being. There are various reasons why young people are unable to access mainstream education.
Our student-centred approach, individual timetables and high support programmes provide the best opportunities for young people to thrive in a nurturing, natural, environment.
We specialise in working with young people with learning, social, emotional and behavioural difficulties, ADHD, those on the Autistic Spectrum, OCD, Attachment and Trauma, mental health issues and those considered hard to reach.
Firmly grounded in qualification pathways, outdoor education, rural skills and activities, we are ambitious in supporting our students’ journey to achieving their very best . We work with children and between 8 and 16 with a range of special educational needs.
Job Description
This is a full time, term time only, position.
Our SEN teacher will be responsible for delivering a bespoke individualised academic timetable for our students covering a range of subjects KS2-KS4 including core subjects, ASDAN awards, Gateway Qualifications, and project-based learning. You will be working with those students in a 1:1 or very small group environment to enable our students to reach their full potential, whilst supporting their specific needs.
Your duties will include:
• developing programmes of learning activities
• planning, preparing and researching lessons
• preparing and adapting teaching materials
• making use of special facilities and/or equipment
• teaching students on an individual, class or small group basis
• checking and assessing students' work and giving feedback
• encouraging personal development
• attending meetings and reviews
• working with our SENCo to liaise with parents/carers, external agencies and a range of other providers including professionals, such as speech and language therapists, and educational psychologists
• writing reports
• coordinating the academic work for our case workers
• ensuring that our tracking systems are kept up date so that we can monitor the progress of students
• supporting the overall day to day effectiveness of the school’s provision, as part of a team
Role Requirements
• Qualified Teacher Status (QTS or QTLS). We would consider an ECT teacher with the relevant experience and educational ethos.
• Experience of delivering GCSE’s
• Experience of working with KS2-KS4 across the curriculum, ideally with experience of the core subjects.
• At least 2 years’ experience of working with SEN essential
• Must enjoy the outdoors and be able to cope with inclement weather.
• An understanding and empathy for children with SEN.
• Bags of patience
• An Enhanced DBS check and references will be undertaken for this role.
• Desirable: current First Aid at Work Certificate
• Desirable: experience of delivering ASDAN awards
As a qualified teacher, you will have experience of working across all the Key Stages, particularly KS2- KS4, in a variety of subjects. You will have wide-ranging experience of working with children with SEN, including ASC and Attachment and trauma.
You will be passionate about helping young people achieve the very best that they can, be thick skinned and have a good sense of humour. You will enjoy being outdoors, in a woodland environment and in our classrooms, that are based on site.
You will need to be organised, clear-sighted and able to work with students, and carers. Approach- able and committed, you’ll set high expectations, demonstrate flexibility, work independently and be able to work and contribute as part of a wider team.
You will need to be able to deal with extreme weather, mud and rain and be comfortable working in a woodland setting. Ideally, you will love dogs and horses who work within our team providing animal assisted interventions.
You will work closely with our Head of School, SENCo and Curriculum Lead to ensure that EHCP’s, assessments and progress reviews are up to date and accurate.
Above all, you’ll love seeing those in your care achieve their true potential.
Pay & Conditions
• Pension scheme
• Uniform (the staff wear a uniform - the students don’t!)
Safeguarding Statement
Running Deer is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Successful applicants will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring will include a check against the Children’s Barred List and Barred Teacher list.
You will be required to complete a medical questionnaire.
References will always be checked to ensure the safety of our children. Our SEN teacher will need to be able to work with children and support their learning, at times this may be whilst a student is displaying aggressive or non-compliant behaviour. We would expect our SEN teacher to address any such circumstances in a sensitive but firm way, ensuring that they and the student are kept safe and well.
Recruitment Process
Please contact us for a full job description/person specification and application pack. Only a fully completed Running Deer Application Pack will be accepted. Do not send a CV or covering letter. Applications which include a CV or covering letter will be discarded.
You will be required to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK.
You will be required to deliver a half hour English lesson to one of our students. This will be followed by a formal interview at our office in Moretonhampstead. This interview will consist of a 45-minute question and answer session, which will be scored against a predetermined set of questions.
Working for Running Deer doesn’t suit everyone. We strongly recommend that you visit us before making your application. This will give you the opportunity to meet our team, have a look around Butterdon Wood, get a feel for the work that we do, and ask any questions you might have.
Subject to a current DBS check including Children’s Barred List and references, we will then make a formal offer of employment.
Once the offer of employment has been accepted, you will be invited to attend an induction day and complete our basic training sessions including e-learning which will cover our policies, procedures, the safeguarding of children and young people, risk assessments, and a health and safety briefing.
For an application pack please email info@runningdeer.org.uk.
Job Details
- OrganisationOther Organisations
- Work LocationTeignbridgeDevon
- Work Postcode
TQ13 8PY
- Reference
JS06989
- Occupational GroupTeaching - Special & Other
- Salary Details
£31,000 per annum (actual) including holiday pay
- Job TermPermanent
- Appointment TypeFull TimeTerm Time
- Hours
35 hours per week (9am - 4pm Monday - Friday), 40 weeks per year (including INSET), term time
- Closing Date
15/07/2025
- DBS Check Required
Yes