Teacher (Ty Gwyn Education Centre)

Salary: Teachers Pay Scale + ALN allowance - £5,595

Teacher (Ty Gwyn Education Centre)

Ty Gwyn Education Centre
Y Dolydd
Aberdare
CF44 8EX
01685 652525

Numbers of Pupils on roll: up to 60

Post: Teacher

Hours: 32.5 hours per week

Salary: Teachers Pay Scale + ALN allowance - £5,595

Start Date: as soon as possible

Ty Gwyn Education Centre wishes to appoint a teacher to complement our existing team of committed and talented staff. Any specialist subject background can be considered, the ability to engage hard to reach pupils achieve their full potential is the key skill sought.

Ty Gwyn Education Centre is a secondary age Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) located in a newly refurbished building in the Aberdare area, serving the whole of RCT and learners from age 11 to 16 years.

Ty Gwyn Education Centre offers specialist provision for up to 60 learners with be-havioural, emotional and social needs that cannot be met in their mainstream school. Learners are a mixture of full and part time (KS3 only) and access a broad and balanced curriculum of core subjects (English, Maths and Science) and a range of vocational and foundation subjects, one of which you would take the lead in.

There is a growing emphasis on developing learner wellbeing and mental health and Ty Gwyn is a Trauma Informed School with a growing team of therapeutic sup-port staff.

As a teacher at Ty Gwyn, you will be supporting and guiding children and young people to make positive choices, re-engage in learning and develop their skills. You will support pupils pastorally, as a form family teacher including emotional check ins, short and focussed interventions to resolve an issue and you will be experi-enced at de-escalation. You will provide high quality first teaching experiences, additional support and scaffolding and be skilled at differentiating support. You, yourself, will be a lifelong learner and a trusted responsible figure in the PRU.

Ty Gwyn Education Centre continues to make strong progress, external examina-tion results are positive for Y11 pupils, standards of teaching and learning and the management of relationships remain strong under the current leadership team.

Should you require further information about the post, please contact Victoria Cox-Wall Headteacher, on 01685 652525.

The closing date for applications is midnight 10th September 2026.

PROTECTING CHILDREN AND ADULTS AT RISK IS A CORE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE SCHOOL AND COUNCIL. IN ADDITION TO THIS SAFEGUARDING RESPONSIBILITY, THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICANT FOR THE ROLE WILL ALSO BE SUBJECT TO AN ENHANCED DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK.

The Council and School values diversity in its workforce. We are committed to ensuring that no unlawful discrimination occurs in the recruitment and selection process on the grounds of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, transgender, including those with non-binary identities, religion or belief or pregnancy and maternity. We offer a number of staff networks for employees including the Allies Network, a Disability and Carers Network and Perthyn our LGBTQ+ Network.

An application submitted for this post in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.

In view of the large number of Application Forms which are currently being submitted individual applications are not acknowledged. Consequently, if you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application is unsuccessful on this occasion. In which case you are thanked for the interest you have shown in applying for a position within the Council.