Lead Practitioner / SEN Teacher – Drive Educational Transformation
Salary: M1 to M6 (Scale dependent)
Position: Permanent, Full-Time (40 Hours)
Location: Alternative Provision City Hub, Nottingham
Key Focus: Relational & Restorative Pedagogy, Case Management, Trauma-Informed Practice
Are you an accomplished educator who has mastered classroom delivery and is now looking for a deeper, more profound professional challenge? Do you believe that high-quality teaching cannot happen without first establishing psychological safety and robust therapeutic relationships?
An innovative Alternative Provision City Hub in Nottingham is seeking an expert, reflective SEN Teacher capable of blending high-level subject specialist delivery with advanced restorative practice. This is a role for a practitioner who wants to operate at the cutting edge of trauma-informed alternative education.
The Profile: Strategic, Relational, Impact-Driven
In this position, you will move away from standard instruction and into deep pedagogical problem-solving. You will work with young people whose complex barriers to learning require a teacher with exceptional clinical intuition, resilience, and emotional intelligence.
Clinical Micro-Classrooms: Take accountability for the progress of intimate cohorts (3-6 learners), using your advanced differentiation skills to unlock potential in students who have entirely disengaged from mainstream systems.
Curriculum Design & Adaptability: Utilise your subject expertise-with KS3/KS4 Maths and Functional Skills being highly advantageous-to dynamically shape a curriculum that balances rigorous academic baselines with holistic life skills.
Directing Multi-Disciplinary Support: Lead and direct skilled Teaching Assistants to deliver targeted 1:1 interventions, ensuring a cohesive, multi-layered approach to every student’s learning plan.
Advanced Responsibilities
Diagnostic Target Setting: Formulate ambitious, highly individualised educational blueprints using robust baseline data to measure academic, personal, and wellbeing milestones.
Restorative Leadership: Champion and model high-level relational and restorative behaviour strategies, transforming past educational trauma into purposeful progress.
Systemic Collaboration: Act as a key multi-agency liaison, collaborating with specialist staff, external agencies, and families to engineer successful reintegration or post-16 transition pathways.
Safeguarding Excellence: Uphold and model exemplary, proactive safeguarding practices at all times.
What You Bring to the Team
Credentials: QTS, PGCE, or equivalent teaching qualification with a proven track record of teaching excellence.
Pedagogical Expertise: Deep understanding of-or a passionate commitment to-trauma-informed practice and restorative justice frameworks.
Leadership Attributes: A highly reflective practitioner dedicated to continuous professional development and collaborative team growth.
Logistics: A valid driving license is essential for this role.
Why This Role Offers True Professional Fulfilment
For the accomplished teacher, this is the ultimate crucible of practice. It strips away the superficial metrics of mainstream schooling and challenges you to use your expertise to genuinely transform a young person’s trajectory.
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