Madeley School is looking to appoint a caring, organised, professional who is passionate about supporting children with SEN. The candidate will support individual students ensuring their specific needs are met and enabling them to make the best possible progress in all aspects of their school career. You will need to be reliable and dedicated, have experience of working with children at an appropriate age and be an excellent role model for our students by demonstrating qualities of compassion, trustworthiness and professionalism.
An understanding of and experience of working with children who have additional needs e.g. Autism, etc, would be beneficial. It is expected that the person appointed will be able to forge productive working relationships with both students and their parents/carers, and that they will have successful experience of supporting students in schools. Madeley School's Learning Support team is committed to ensuring high standards of support throughout the school, helping students overcome any situations that might act as a barrier to learning.
Why Madeley
At Madeley, we are proud of our culture of high achievement, collaboration, and continuous improvement. You will be part of a vibrant professional community that values initiative, encourages innovation, and supports your development.
Take this opportunity to be part of an inspiring journey - where your expertise, passion, and innovation will make a lasting impact!
At Shaw Education Trust, we believe every role has the power to transform a life. Whether you're supporting behind the scenes, inspiring in the classroom, or leading with vision, you will be part of something truly meaningful.
Our values - opportunity, integrity, community, and equity - guide everything we do. Our vision is “Opening doors to the world through the power of learning.” We bring this to life through our mission: working together to inspire communities where every school is valued, every voice matters, and every learner thrives.
We are a dynamic and growing family of primary, secondary, and special schools, proudly serving communities from Birmingham to Bury.
You will join a collaborative network of schools where shared expertise and a strong professional community drive success. Every academy within our Trust has an equal voice, and every colleague plays a vital role in shaping tailored learning experiences that raise aspirations and build brighter futures.
If you have the passion, dedication, and drive to help shape lives and create futures filled with promise, we would love you to join our team.
Together, let's make the remarkable happen.
We believe every child has the potential to be extraordinary.
In our secondary schools, we pride ourselves on our innovative approach to curriculum design, to ensure all our schools have breadth and ambition for all students, regardless of their starting points and barriers. Standard curriculum models don't always engage all students, so we constantly seek to innovate and provide better opportunities to develop both knowledge and skills for life. We want our students to believe their curriculum is bold, exciting, purposeful, and ultimately leads to something meaningful for them. Some examples of our innovation include moving towards an extended school day, to provide a world class enrichment programme and more opportunities for essential skills like reading and cultural capital. We are also introducing vocational and technical pathways, which run through the normal school curriculum but attract support from leading employers and universities to develops work-readiness in our students, so that they can progress onto T Levels and apprenticeships.
Our secondary schools are currently driving ‘PedTech' across the sector: we believe teaching and technology should go hand-in-glove and are passionately committed towards providing a fully digitally enhanced curriculum. We are very close to achieving full 1:1 device delivery and are sprinting towards better use of iPads in lessons to enhance the experience and learning.
Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
We know our people are the key to our success and so we're committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.
Colleagues within the Trust benefit from: Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include a variety of the National Professional Qualifications and the Early Carer Teacher Programme delivered by Shaw Education Trust as a delivery partner for Ambition Institute.
Actual Salary: £19,283 - £19,898 - Pay Award Pending
Working Hours: 32.5 hours per week, 38 Term time weeks plus 5 Inset Days (39 weeks per year total)
Contract type: 12 months FTC until 31st August 2027