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‘Great schools thrive because of the great people in them’.
As part of Prospere Learning Trust, we pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to:
• grow and develop your career;
• achieve a healthy work life balance; and
• to be recognised for the great work you do.
We continually strive to create a community where all our staff and students feel understood, valued and sense of belonging.
Working for Piper Hill
Piper Hill School is an Outstanding school that is ambitious for every one of our learners. We are a larger than average size special school that caters for students aged 11 – 19 with significant learning difficulties. We aim to provide the very best education for our students and to ensure they have the very best outcomes and make the best rates of progress they possibly can.
Piper Hill high School has state of the art facilities that provide an environment suitable for the learning needs of both children and young adults, including a hydrotherapy pool, dance and drama studio, gym, and an interactive learning environment (ILE room). The school also has a variety of outside spaces, including a Forest School space with overnight camping pods.
Achievements include being awarded the status of National Support School in 2011 and becoming a teaching school in 2014. More recently, we have established the school as a National Centre of Excellence and have developed the capacity to support other special schools through role modelling outstanding practice.
Following the inspection in September 2023, Ofsted confirmed that our school continues to be graded as Outstanding.
Staff experience and wellbeing is important to us and we ensure that our staff feel informed and supported from their first day and throughout their experience as part of our school community.
We are committed to recruiting and retaining outstanding support staff and teaching staff to enable us to achieve our vision, delivering outstanding education and a positive, successful experience through which our young people prosper.
“Staff feel that they are highly valued. They appreciate the comprehensive training that helps them to meet the individual needs of the pupils and to deliver effective personalised learning. When making changes, the school takes into account the likely impact on staff workload.” Ofsted 2023
What our staff say
“I have had the most amazing support from all the SLT at Piper Hill it is one of the reasons I have worked at Piper Hill for 25yrs and will continue, it's a great place to work where I feel supported and valued.”
“Piper Hill is a professional and outstanding place of work and education.”
“The Trust have provided excellent opportunities for me to progress in my career.”