Class Teacher for Specialist Resource Base

Required from September 2025

Start date: 1st September 2025

Salary: M1 – UPS3 +SEN allowance

Contract: Full time and permanent

Are you a teacher who brings energy, curiosity, and a sense of humour to a team? Do you have a passion for teaching children with special educational needs?

Do you want to work in an environment where you are truly valued and invested in? Our Academy and community need you! We have a rare opportunity for a teacher to join our well established and outward thinking team in our specialist resource base for children with severe and complex needs. We are looking for an enthusiastic and inclusive teacher with a passion for working with children at their earliest developmental level.

Our offer to you

When you join the Oasis family there are a number of offers you will receive that make us stand out as an employer of choice. These include but are not limited to:

• A lively environment with colleagues who care
• Clear career progression
• Comprehensive training opportunities and investment in your development
• Access to the most current pedagogical and evidence based approaches
• Impactful support for your role from colleagues within and beyond the Academy
• Opportunities to make an impact for children at a National level
• A commitment to support for your mental health and wellbeing (including access to a free counselling service)

The role and what we are looking for

We have an exciting and rare opportunity for class teacher to join the specialist resource base in our Academy due to an expansion that is due to open in September 2025. This is a really exciting time to join our Academy as we continue on our journey to embed and develop our academic and pastoral curriculum. 

We need you to

• Be an excellent classroom teacher with uncompromisingly high expectations
• Have the ability to work effectively as part of a large and flexible team, including managing and working alongside a multi-agency team
• Have experience in building strong relationships with families to meet the complex needs of individual children
• Be committed to helping every child reach their potential no matter what their starting point.
• Be committed to your own professional development and have up to date knowledge of pedagogy and curriculum

Our children and community deserve the best – is that you?

Our Academy

Oasis Academy Long Cross is a very special and exciting place to be. We are a two-form entry school, with a large Early Years Foundation Stage and an expanding specialist resource base. In addition, we have our health colleagues and a Children’s Centre onsite. Long Cross is a successful, caring and ambitious academy where children and staff flourish. We have a highly skilled and passionate staff team who are committed to providing the highest quality of education and care for every child. We are fully committed to providing exceptional education at the heart of our community.

Oasis Academy Long Cross is forward-looking school, with inspirational children who are sparky, well-behaved, and eager to learn. They demonstrate a real pride in our Academy.

Applications are welcomed from novice and more experienced teachers of children with complex needs.

Please visit the school website for further information. We strongly encourage visits to our academy, to arrange your visit please contact the Academy office.

We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for the successful applicants.

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.

Please note that CVs will not be accepted.

Closing Date: Monday 17th March 2025 at 5pm

Interviews: Monday 24th March