Seaford (On-Site)
Permanent, Full time
£31,650 - £49,084 per annum pro rata
32.5
Job introduction
Salary: £31,650 - £49,084 per annum
Contract type: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time teachers working hours
Closing date: Friday 16 May 2025
Interview date: Week commencing Monday 19 May
How to apply: For an application pack, please contact the school on 01323 893138, visit the school website www.bowdenhouse.towerhamlets.sch.uk or email admin@bowdenhouse.towerhamlets.sch.uk
About the role
Trauma-Informed Classroom Teacher
“A wonderful, warm, nurturing place to work”
Bowden House School is a specialist SEMH provision for boys, offering both day and residential placements for up to 40 students.
Our students are taught in small classes, typically 4 to 6 pupils, supported by an assistant teacher in every lesson. Many of our young people have experienced disrupted education, including significant periods out of school and multiple failed placements. Our "stage not age" approach allows students to re-engage with learning and thrive in an environment built around their individual needs.
At Bowden House, you will join a dedicated, passionate, and supportive team. We pride ourselves on working closely together to provide not just education, but exceptional care that underpins everything we do. Although the work can be challenging, it is also deeply rewarding, offering creativity, collaboration, and fewer of the systemic frustrations often experienced in mainstream settings.
We are looking for a resilient, compassionate, and flexible teacher who is excited to make a genuine difference. In return, you will receive excellent CPD opportunities, including enhanced safeguarding, attachment and trauma training, Team Teach, MIDAS, and first aid certification.
We welcome applications from both primary-trained teachers and secondary teachers, particularly those with a background in English, Humanities, or SEMH. Whether you come from a special or mainstream background, if you have the curiosity, compassion, and skills to deliver purposeful, engaging lessons and form meaningful, positive relationships with our students, we would love to meet you — and introduce you to our wonderful students and staff.
“Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care.”
Key Information:
- MPS/UPS
- QTS required
- Specialism preference: Primary / English / Humanities / SEMH
- Strong teaching and learning practice essential
- Good classroom management skills
- Flexible and resilient approach
Candidates must have been educated to at least GCSE standard or equivalent
The school is committed to the Safeguarding and Protection of Children. We appoint staff in positions of trust and it is our duty under Safer Recruitment to ensure that they are fit to work with vulnerable young people. References and an enhanced DBS that are satisfactory to us, will be a condition of the appointment. It is an offence to apply for this role if you have been barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
We shall ensure fairness and equal opportunity throughout our workforce and in service delivery. We welcome applications from suitably skilled candidates regardless of ethnicity, gender, disability, sexuality, religion or age.
Online searches may be carried out as part of due diligence checks for shortlisted candidates.
Additional information
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is part-time or term-time only.