Instructor - Motor Vehicles

**As an Instructor at Pontville, you'll get the opportunity to deliver training and development within your area of expertise which will inspire our young people.** You’ll have superb leadership, specialist support and state-of-the-art-facilities,allowing you to focus on delivering an innovative and engaging teaching programme which will inspire our young people. Committed to fulfilling the potential of each and every one of our young people, no matter what their educational needs (including emotionaland social difficulties, autistic spectrum conditions and speech and language communication difficulties), you share our belief that all young people are capable of achieving great things.

You will have on the job experience of working with motor vehicles and ideally a relevant teaching qualification or willingness to work towards completing one within two years. You will develop work placement opportunities with local employers to help ouryoung people put their skills into practice. Ideally, you’ll have experience of dealing with complex education needs, as you’ll need to connect with our young people - understanding what makes them unique and working to make a real difference to their socialand emotional development. But none of this fazes you, as it’s what you’re passionate about and why you’ll fit right in.

Pontville School is a co-educational, independent specialist day and residential school, providing education and care for up to 140 pupils between the ages of 5 and 19 years with social communication difficulties, ASD and speech, language and communicationdifficulties. The school is set in fantastic grounds, allowing us to deliver a creatively designed curriculum, aimed at providing pupils with opportunities so that they can reach milestones in education and make progress with their emotional wellbeing andsocial development.

For children and young people with complex, challenging needs, the level of care and education must go above and beyond. That’s what drives us, here at Witherslack Group. We are a leading provider of specialist education and care for children and young peoplewith social, emotional and mental health needs, communication difficulties, complex learning needs and challenging behaviours. We have a reputation for excellence and of achieving the highest possible outcomes. In short, we’re enhancing life opportunities.

**Reward
**We know you’re going to do great things. For your hard work and commitment, we want to reward you with a salary and benefits package that’s among the best in our sector. You’ll receive a competitive salary, full school holidays, (pension matched up to 5%),Life Insurance based on two times your annual base salary and comprehensive induction and ongoing training, as well as extensive Group staff benefits such as Medicash Health Plan/Employee Assistance and Cycle to Work Scheme. Witherslack conducts DBS Enhancedchecks and covers the costs for all new employees.

For a full job description and person specification, please see the attached document.