Key Role Information

Salary
£31,650 - £49,084
Job type
Full Time
Contract type
Permanent
Closing
06/05/2025 12:00
Interview
W/C 12th May
Start
1 September 2025
Contract term
AYR - All year round
Pay grade
MPS/UPS
Department
Teacher
Hours per week
32.44
Weeks per year
52.000
Visa sponsorship
No

Your Role

Pay/Salary: MPS/UPS FTE: £31,650 - £49,084 per annum depending on relevant teaching experience, plus SEN 1 allowance (£2,679) and TLR2B (£5,646)

 

Are you seeking a new challenge?

 

Newcastle Bridges School is seeking to appoint an outstanding Maths Coordinator to lead the subject across the school`s sites.

 

Some of the main duties of the role will include:

  • Leading and managing the subject area of Mathematics
  • Leading on teaching and learning and curriculum development for the subject
  • Producing a Subject Development Plan that identifies key priorities
  • Being accountable for and report on student progress and attainment levels within the subject
  • Ensuring Mathematics is fully and accurately represented and accessible to all staff

 

Does this sound like the role for you?

 

We are looking for a candidate who is passionate, ambitious and can help drive the school forward and who will innovate and motivate the teaching and support team working with our pupils, ensuring they maximise the opportunities presented to them.

 

The successful candidate will have:

  • Excellent subject knowledge and a proven track record of outstanding teaching and driving progress forward
  • Knowledge and understanding of pupils with a wide range of learning needs
  • The ability to relate well to a wide range of groups and individuals and advise and lead them in respect to driving up standards within a curriculum area
  • The ability to manage and lead staff

 

Newcastle Bridges School provides excellent educational opportunities to young people whose education has been interrupted by mental or physical ill-health or school based non-attendance. We seek to support each young person's access to a full-time, broad and balanced education appropriate to their potential and their educational needs and encourage reintegration into mainstream whenever relevant. The successful candidates with therefore contribute to supporting some of the most vulnerable young people within the city and surrounding areas, striving to make a difference to their lives.

 

Newcastle Bridges School was judged by Ofsted to be once again ‘Outstanding’ in May 2022.

 

Ferndene Hospital at Prudhoe (Redburn, Stephenson (MSU), Fraser, and Riding Wards): provides regional and national Tier 4 Child and Adolescent Services (CAMHS) for children and young people between the ages of 13 and 18. Tier 4 CAMHS are for patients with more complex needs usually requiring inpatient treatment.

 

The Great North Children’s Hospital is a regional hospital for many specialised services within paediatrics. The intake of patients covers a wide Geographical area; north to the Scottish Borders, west to Cumbria and south to North Yorkshire. It also serves the national and international community as a centre of excellence. The Children’s Heart Unit at the Freeman Hospital provides care for children who need medical or surgical help for conditions involving the heart, lungs and airways. It is one of two units in the UK to carry out heart and lung transplants on children.

 

Newcastle Bridges School at Kenton offers education to pupils aged 11-16 years old who are unable to access mainstream school due to medical and mental health needs. It offers a smaller and more nurturing environment than most mainstream secondary settings. A secondary curriculum is followed and pupils sit external exams.

 

The Medical Pathway Team are based within this provision and provide education to pupils in the community who are unable to access the Kenton Provision for medical reasons, supporting them in a transition back to an education setting appropriate to the individual learner.

 

To learn more about Newcastle Bridges School and Prosper Learning Trust, please visit our websites.

 

Prosper Learning Trust was established in January 2018 to help vulnerable young people succeed against the odds. Four core values underpin everything we do as a Trust, these are Aspiration, Integrity, Resilience and kindness. We are looking for staff who share those values and want to support our young people.

 

The Trust currently have 5 schools in the region: 

  • Newcastle Bridges School – Alternative Provision academy offering education to pupils unable to access mainstream school due to medical needs including hospitalised children and young people (3-19 years) 
  • Mary Astell Academy – Alternative Provision academy offering education to permanently excluded pupils and pupils who are struggling in mainstream school (11-16 years) 
  • Thomas Bewick Special School – Special School academy for pupils with a diagnosis of autism (3-19 years) 
  • Harry Watts Academy – Special School academy for pupils with a diagnosis of autism (5-16 years) 
  • Gilbert Ward Academy – Special School academy for pupils with SEMH or a diagnosis of autism (11-16 years) 
  • Prosper Learning Trust was also recently named as the lead partner in the opening of a new Free School in Jarrow, South Tyneside. This school will be a Special School academy for pupils with SEMH (4-11 years).

 

The successful candidate will be deployed initially at Newcastle Bridges School but will be expected to work at any Prosper Learning Trust site should the need arise.

 

Benefits of working for Prosper Learning Trust

 

  • The Trust is proud to say that we match the Real Living Wage and we also offer successful candidates:
  • A friendly and supportive team of staff who are willing to share expertise and learn from one another 
  • Opportunities for career development and support with development through Trust wide Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes 
  • Access to an Employee Assistance Programme and support from the Trust's Wellbeing Network Group 
  • Access to either Teacher's Pension or Local Government Pension Scheme, each with favourable employer contribution rates
  • Employee centred policies that support you in and beyond the workplace 
  • Funded eye tests for DSE users (subject to T/Cs) 
  • Cycle to work scheme 


The successful candidate will be welcomed into the Trust, so if this sounds like you please don’t hesitate to apply.

 

For more information on why we think you should work for us see our Trust website, where you will also find videos of what our current staff think. 

 

Please note that all successful candidates will be required to complete an online pre-employment medical questionnaire.


Benefits

SEN Allowance
SEN 1 £2,679
TLR
TLR2B £5,646

Qualifications

DFE recognised teaching qualification and QTS or equivalentessential
Evidence of commitment to updating specialist subject knowledge through regular CPDessential
Further professional development in relevant fields including safeguardingessential
Further professional developmentdesirable

Skills

Abilities, Skills and Knowledge

Excellent Classroom Practitioneressential
Excellent understanding of how main subject and subsidiary subject can be taught to pupils with complex needsessential
Knowledge and understanding of pupils with a wide range of learning needs essential
Clear understanding of and adherence to teacher standardsessential
Clear vision of how the subjects can be delivered to enhance the curriculumessential
Sound understanding of assessment, recording and reporting processesessential
Excellent verbal and written communication skillsessential
Commitment to raising the academic and personal achievement of pupilsessential
Ability to relate well to a wide range of groups and individuals and advise and lead them in respect to driving up standards within a curriculum areaessential
Can use IT effectively as both a teaching and an assessment toolessential
Ability to analyse, understand and interpret relevant dataessential
In depth knowledge of the exam board specificationsessential
Understands the framework for inspection of schools
Can teach other subjects or general subjects appropriate to the curriculum for pupils with complex needs
Knowledge of relevant legislation & guidance (National Curriculum requirements: SEN Code of Practice)

Experience

Proven effective delivery of specified work with respect to external accreditationessential
Working effectively with a range of statutory and voluntary agenciesessential
Made significant contribution to teaching in their present school/or been recognised as a very good teacher in trainingessential
Experience of developing/managing a subject area
Curriculum and policy development, recording and reporting
Taught pupils with SEMH needs
Considerable experience of teaching pupils with learning difficulties
Experience of teaching other or general subjects to pupils with additional needs

Personal Attributes

Ability to lead and manage staffessential
Ability to manage change and meet competing deadlinesessential
Ability to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children and young people with learning difficultiesessential
High expectations of pupil achievementessential
Calm, confident and professional manneressential
Willingness to ask for advice and support where necessaryessential
Positive attitude to changeessential
Enthusiasm and driveessential

Special Requirements

Cleared to work with childrenessential
Willing to take part in out-of-school activitiesessential
Prepared to respond positively to professional development opportunities offered by the schoolessential

Newcastle Bridges School

Helen McGowan

helen.mcgowan@bridges.newcastle.sch.uk


Drayton Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE3 3RU

Safeguarding Information

Prosper Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, as well as vulnerable adults, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to apply for Disclosure from the DBS.

 

The Trust actively promotes equality of opportunity with the right mix of talent, skills and potential and welcomes applications from a wide range of candidates. The Trust selects all candidates for employment based on their skills, qualifications and experience, in comparison against the person specification.

 

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. If you are invited for interview, you will be required to disclose convictions that would not be filtered, prior to the date of the interview. Certain spent convictions and cautions will be ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed. Full details on protected convictions and information about which convictions must be declared during job applications can be found on the Ministry of Justice website. You will be asked for further information about your criminal history during the recruitment process. If your application is successful, this self-disclosure information will be checked against information from the Disclosure and Barring Service before your appointment is confirmed. This role will include Regulated Activities and an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) disclosure is required for this post. Please note that in all cases written references will be taken up and made available to interviewers before the final selection stage; even if you indicate otherwise.


Online vetting checks will be carried out for candidates who are shortlisted.


Job roles, specifically for Newcastle Bridges School, that are located within The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust sites, will be subject to an additional layer of safer recruitment / pre-engagement checks managed by the NHS, under their Honorary Contract Policy.  An employee of Newcastle Bridges School may be required to work across more than one site.