To promote the highest standards of learning and achievement in a supportive, stimulating, and orderly environment to engage young adults in their learning and planning for their own future.

To encourage and motivate learners and thus enable everyone to be the best that they can be, and become as independent, skilled and confident as possible.

To promote positive wellbeing amongst our learners, encouraging them to take responsibility for their own health and mental wellbeing, and developing their autonomy to transfer these skills into adulthood.

Create an inclusive ethos in which learners develop independence, value themselves, others, and their environment, and prepare for adult life and citizenship by working with others.

Promote the enjoyment of learning and support the attainments, successes, and achievements of all learners.

Support all members of the college community to enable them to communicate and interact effectively, be confident, motivated to succeed and develop life, independence, and skills for employment.

As an active and effective member of the Teaching and Learning Team you will:

• Teach groups, individuals, subjects and skills as deployed by the Leadership team, throughout The Oaks Specialist College – across all sites and, where appropriate, in the community.
• Engage all learners and encourage them to make good progress and become as skilled, knowledgeable and independent as possible so that they become successful learners, confident individuals and responsible, contributing citizens.
• Use knowledge of learners’ special educational needs and disabilities, advice from the therapists, College aims and policies, schemes of work and curriculum requirements to establish and communicate clear, relevant and challenging learning objectives and positive learning experiences to enable learners to develop awareness and development of their own health and mental wellbeing.
• Support learners to develop the enthusiasm and motivation to increase their level of wellbeing and physical activity with a sense of autonomy that increase their likelihood of sustaining this into adulthood.
• Deploy positive and targeted support for all learners with specific learning needs or difficulties.
• Develop and manage positive and productive relationships with all learners, staff, carers, parents, trustees and the wider community.
• Develop learners’ participation, social skills, responsibility, concern for others, independence, literacy, numeracy and ICT skills throughout the curriculum and enable them to make safe and healthy choices.
• Use and develop opportunities for learning outside the classroom, in particular active participation in the local community.
• Creatively manage the full range of resources within College and the community to successfully prepare our learners for adult life.
• 1Promote positive behaviour, setting consistent, clear expectations for maintaining appropriate behaviour, managing any challenging or difficult behaviour from learners, minimising any negative impact on the learning of others, and/or on the learners themselves.
• Regularly monitor, evaluate, record and report the progress of learners in relation to their prior attainment, using agreed College systems and to use this to provide constructive on-going feedback to learners to guide their learning and develop their individual capacity to know, understand, value and build on their own strengths and skills.
• Participate in, and engage with, a range of College based and external INSET and professional development activities, including performance management feedback, internal quality assurance and sharing best practice and outcomes with colleagues and to continuously improve own performance.
• Implement all College procedures & policies consistently, and contribute to their evaluation and further development, supporting the College in achieving its aims, vision and priorities as set out in the College Development Plan.