Lead for Teaching and Learning

Role: Lead for Teaching & Learning 

School: Oaklea Grange School
Full Time: 40 Hours per week

Contract type: Permanent
Salary: £44,849.76 – £57,248.56 (DoE)

Requirements:

• Extensive experience working in SEN or ALN settings, with a strong grasp of inclusive education principles
• A proven record of driving improvement in teaching and pupil outcomes
• Experience in delivering and supporting person-centred planning
• Fluency in or a commitment to developing fluency in Welsh
• Empathy, creativity, patience—and a commitment to celebrating every pupil’s potential

As a Lead for Teaching & Learning you will:

• Design, implement and review teaching and learning strategies that meet a wide range of learning profiles and emotional needs
• Support and develop teachers and learning support staff through mentoring, coaching, and CPD
• Champion a trauma-informed, therapeutic approach to classroom practice
• Work closely with the ALNCo and pastoral teams to ensure an integrated, wraparound approach to pupil progress
• Promote the use of assistive technology and adaptive tools to empower learners
• Lead initiatives to improve literacy, numeracy, and digital competence across the curriculum
• Monitor classroom delivery and provide constructive, supportive feedback to colleagues
• Encourage a bilingual and culturally responsive curriculum model (Welsh and English)

About Oaklea Grange School

Oaklea Grange School based near Wrexham is a residential school for children and young people aged 11 to 18. Our range of specialist services supports our ambition to provide every child with the care, therapy and learning they need to ensure they achieve their personal best.

Benefits of Working for us:

• A rewarding career you can be truly proud of
• A supportive environment that is committed to helping you flourish and deliver excellent care to the people we support
• Competitive pay with pay progression opportunities
• Career development and training
• Internal progression opportunities
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave packages
• Employee assistance programme
• Free eye care vouchers

If this sounds like the role for you, apply now!

Young Foundations are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff to share this commitment. We adopt fair, robust, and consistent recruitment process across the company online with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, satisfactory reference, right to work checks and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

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