Special Educational Needs Teacher - SEND

CER are currently recruiting an SEND Teacher for a specialist SEN School in Liverpool. The school provide both care and education services to children and young people with moderate to severe learning difficulties aged 8-19 years old.

The school are looking to recruit a qualified teacher who has had previous expeirence working with moderate to severe learning difficulties or has expeirence working within an early years/primary setting.

The role will primarily be responsible for leading a group of teaching assistants to deliver a thematic curriculum through “play” to their most complex students. All students within this class receive either 1:1 or 2:1 support and some of the pupils are non verbal and utilise alternative communication methods.

You must have excellent interpersonal skills, and enjoy liasing with parents, colleagues, members of allied agencies and of course the pupils. You must be computer literate and be able to deal with sensitive and confidential information effectively. You need to be confident working on your own and be self-motivated. As a Teacher you will need to have a knowledge and understanding of Curriculum, Teaching, Learning and Assessment and it is vital that you have curriculum expeirence within Ofsted and regulatory bodies.

The role is to start in April 2026 and will continue until at least July 2026 with a view of carrying on in to the next academic year

The successful candidate will:

• Be an active patricipant of the school team
• Lead by example, holding and articulating clear values and moral purpose, and focusing on providing excellent education for all pupils
• Undertake the normal responsibilities of a class teacher
• Be responsible for the standards and curriculum of all pupils including monitoring of progress towards achievement

Relevent Skills and Experience:

• A relevent degree level Teaching qualification and/or experience in a school
• QTS/QTLS is desirable
• Experience of working in SEMH school with children who have learning difficulties and can display severe challenging behaviour is desirable
• Expeirence of Ofsted and other regulatory body inspections

All candidates are required to hold an up to date Enhanced DBS Disclosure check, or be in a position to apply for one.

Important Information:

• All pay rates provided are inclusive of rolled up holiday pay.

• Affinity Workforce Solutions and CER Education are committed to safeguarding and promoting welfare of children and young people and expects all its temporary workers to share these commitments. As this role involves working with children daily, regulated activity is that any successful applicant’s applications will, accordance with statutory guidance, be subject to 2 employment references, an enhanced DBS check and a right to work in the UK check.
• This vacancy is based in the United Kingdom. CER Education operate in the UK and can only process applications from candidates who are currently UK residents and eligible to work in the UK. Whilst we will endeavour to contact you following your response, due to the high volume of applications we regret that this cannot always be possible. If you have not had notification from us within 30 days please take your application as not being successful this time but we will keep your details on file for future opportunities.
• Pay will depend on current pay scale, evidence of this will need to be provided.

If this role is of interest to you, and you would like to speak to one of our Team, please apply today and we will be in touch.