Class Teacher - Special Needs

Class Teacher - Special Needs
Salary dependent upon qualifications and experience.

Permanent full-time post required April 2026

Spring Common Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Spring Common Academy is a special school with a welcoming, nurturing environment where the class team work together to ensure all the students excel and reach their potential.

All pupils have special needs and disabilities and enjoy their learning and would like a teacher to actively lead them to achieve success. The school has excellent facilities and the support of experienced and friendly teaching assistants who work as a class team.

Experience of working with PMLD/complex needs is desirable. This post is suitable for teachers who would like to develop special school experience in their career. Candidates transferring from mainstream and ECTs are warmly welcome.

All appointments are subject to satisfactory references and checks, (including an enhanced children and adults DBS check, On-line search in line with KCSIE ’25, Barred List Check 99, Prohibition from Teaching (128 check) and health checks). We offer an Induction programme and have a genuine ongoing commitment of staff professional development.

We are strongly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect staff to actively share this commitment.

Application packs, including an application form are available on mynewterm https://mynewterm.com/jobs/142557/EDV-2025-SCA-28812. Visits to the school can be organised prior to applying, but potential candidates would be encouraged to look at the school website. To book phone the office above or email Emma Luckett – office@springcommon.cambs.sch.uk CVs are not accepted.

Closing date for applications: Friday 28th November 2025
Interview Date: Week commencing 8th December 2025

Previous applications need not apply

Horizons Education Trust and Spring Common Academy are committed to the safeguarding and promotion of the welfare of children and young people and expect staff to share this commitment.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide