Land Teacher

Brantwood Garden School is located on the outskirts of Sheffield. In addition to the main campus it includes a smallholding and a theatre/performing arts space. The curriculum at Brantwood includes clay work, jewellery making, felting and weaving, forge work and green woodwork. Brantwood Garden School is part of Ruskin Mill Trust.

Established in 1984, Ruskin Mill Trust is an educational charity that operates in England, Scotland and Wales.
We offer exciting outdoor learning environments, utilising practical land and craft activities to support the development of work and life skills in young people with autistic spectrum conditions and other learning differences. Our research-led method, Practical Skills Therapeutic Education, is inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner, John Ruskin and William Morris. Working with hand, head, heart and place, Ruskin Mill Trust helps individuals to re-imagine their potential.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service Enhanced Level Disclosure as well as a medical check, references, evidence of qualifications, plus verification of the right to work in the UK. 

Land Teacher  40 Hours per week, 52 weeks per year
Qualified Teacher Salary: £28,887 – £40,990
Unqualified Teacher Salary: £26,538 – £33,474  (starting salary dependent on qualifications and experience)

This is an exciting opportunity to join Brantwood Garden School as a Land Teacher.

You will be required to deliver a Land work curriculum, to create an appropriate learning environment to support the learning and development needs of individual students, as well as groups of students.

You will also be required to support the day-to-day running of the site with regard to the land.

The post holder will be responsible for:

• Planning and delivering high‑quality land‑based learning sessions for groups of students,
• Developing and embedding curriculum opportunities for land‑based education across the school
• Ensuring that biodynamic principles are fully integrated within Brantwood Garden School
• Supporting the ongoing creation and development of a coherent land‑based curriculum and biodynamic strategy across all school sites
• Working closely with teachers, contributing to the planning of therapeutic and educational learning programmes
• Supporting staff development through training and the delivery of workshops focused on biodynamic practice
• Running LANTRA-accredited training courses to students including lawn mowing, hedge trimming and brush cutters.

The role requires you to be comfortable and competent in the safe use of land management machinery, and to effectively demonstrate its operation and support students in developing their practical skills.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Experience in teaching and hold a teaching qualification. However, we would still welcome applications from individuals who have not yet achieved this but are willing to train and learn.
• Ideally trained in Biodynamic Agriculture or willing to attend training and work towards a qualification
• Knowledge and experience (desirable) of working in specialist education and have an understanding of the Ruskin Mill Trust method of Practical Skills Therapeutic Education (PSTE)
• A full driving licence is essential for this role

Working at Ruskin Mill Trust is incredibly rewarding; we offer competitive salaries and holiday allowances, an auto-enrolment pension scheme with a salary sacrifice option, a health cash plan and employee assistance programme via Medicash.

In addition, staff receive valuable training opportunities including an in-depth interactive induction to enable our new team members to experience our Practical Skills Therapeutic Education (PSTE) curriculum and opportunities for further training and academic research including our own MSc in Practical Skills Therapeutic Education.

Full details of our benefits can be viewed on www.rmt.org/careers

For further information or to apply, please visit rmt.org/jobs  or email the recruitment team at [email protected]