About This Role
This full-time, permanent role is for a Science Teacher to deliver high-quality, autism-informed teaching to pupils with Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC) and associated needs. The teacher will adapt the KS3 curriculum to meet individual needs in a small-class specialist setting, ensuring learning is accessible, meaningful, and ambitious while supporting pupils' communication, emotional regulation, independence, and wellbeing. Significant experience working with and supporting pupils with ASC is essential.
Responsibilities
- Plan, deliver, and assess high-quality, adapted lessons
- Adapt the KS3 curriculum to meet the needs of pupils with ASC and associated needs
- Use autism-specific and evidence-based approaches, including visual supports and structured teaching, clear routines and predictable lesson structures, sensory and regulation strategies, and communication-supportive approaches
- Create a calm, structured, and supportive learning environment
- Ensure learning is accessible, engaging, relevant, and appropriately challenging
- Use assessment effectively to track progress in both subject learning and EHCP outcomes, inform planning and differentiation, and provide clear feedback to pupils and families
- Support pupils' communication and interaction, emotional regulation and behaviour, independence and self-confidence, and engagement in learning and school life
- Implement positive behaviour and regulation strategies in line with the school's autism-informed approach
- Maintain high expectations for both learning and behaviour
- Ensure safeguarding and pupil welfare are always a priority
- Deliver provision aligned to pupils' EHCP outcomes
- Contribute to annual reviews, progress reports, target setting, and multi-disciplinary planning
- Work closely with therapists and other professionals to support integrated and consistent provision
- Maintain accurate and high-quality records of progress and provision
- Contribute to the development of the subject curriculum across KS3 (and beyond where appropriate)
- Ensure the subject curriculum is ambitious, appropriately sequenced, and well-adapted for pupils with ASC
- Contribute to resource development, assessment approaches, moderation, and quality assurance
- Promote enthusiasm and engagement in your subject across the school
- Work effectively with Teaching Assistants, Therapists, and Pastoral and support staff
- Provide clear guidance and direction to support staff in the classroom
- Contribute positively to the wider life of the school
- Engage fully in CPD, training, and reflective practice, particularly around autism and SEND
- Uphold the Teachers' Standards
