Associate SENCO/LP Designate for SEND

Inspire, transform, teach! We are currently looking to appoint a dedicated and inspiring Associate SENCO/LP Designate for SEND.

At Harris Academy Sutton , you will join a dedicated team of teachers and staff supporting our vibrant students. If you are looking for an opportunity to grow, inspire and develop, this may be the role for you.

About Us

We believe that a happy and settled staff body helps drive the very best performance from our students. We are committed to a high-quality professional development programme and can drawn on expertise from across the Harris Federation.  As a HASU member of staff at any level you will receive the training and support that you need to carry out your role effectively and develop at a pace that suits you.

We are committed to ensuring that our staff have the right level of balance between work and home life. Our policies and procedures are aimed at allowing our teaching staff to spend as much time as possible planning and delivering lessons.

We work in an award-winning building with excellent facilities. Our thriving staff association ensures all new members of staff soon feel part of the HASU community.

We run a broad and diverse curriculum to a fully comprehensive intake of students.

Our focus on the core value of Integrity means that our behaviour is excellent, with staff supported by a strong and highly visible Academy Leadership Group. Detentions are run centrally, allowing teaching staff to do what they do best: plan and teach amazing lessons.

Attendance and engagement with learning is high, and centrally planned tutor time resources ensure that our tutors can engage with students whilst delivering high-quality experiences.

Main Areas of Responsibility

The purpose of your role will be:

To support the SENDCo in:

• Ensuring that Academy practice is compliant with the SEND Code of Practice (2014) and other relevant statutory requirements.
• Working to ensure an ethos of Inclusion within the Academy and a culture of high
• aspirations for students with SEND.
• Working to ensure the implementation of the Academy SEND Policy.
• Working to maintain the Academy’s SEND Profile, ensuring that it is always up-to-date and is an accurate picture of student SEND need across the Academy.
• Supporting the accurate identification of SEND need across the Academy, ensuring a rigorous and thorough assessment process.
• To be a role model with regard to Quality First Teaching and differentiation within your own teaching practice.
• To be responsible for the embedding of Quality First Teaching across the Academy.
• In consultation with the SENCO and the Director of Curriculum and Pedagogy, to provide a programme of professional development with regard to SEND, that ensures all staff have the knowledge, skills and understanding to plan teaching and learning effectively and enable students with SEND to make expected progress.
• To support the tracking the progress of students with SEND, using a wide range of Academy data relating to progress, attainment, referrals, exclusions, detentions and attendance to identify barriers to learning.
• To deploy staff and resources according to the needs of SEND students

Qualifications & Experience

The successful candidate will:

• Hold QTS (or equivalent) and a relevant undergraduate degree
• Have successful teaching experience at secondary level (can be teaching practice)
• Understand the theory and practice of effective teaching and learning
• Show knowledge of National curriculum requirements at KS3, KS4, and KS5
• Have at least three years’ teaching experience
• Have experience of delivering high quality INSET to teaching staff within subject area
• Have proven success in raising achievement as a subject leader or classroom practitioner
• Have successful experience of processes of monitoring, evaluation and review that provide performance data that can be used to improve the quality of teaching and learning
• Show a good level of ICT skills and experience of how new technologies can be used to raise achievement, including the use of interactive white boards
• Have recent experience of involvement in innovative curriculum development
• Have ideas of how Language, Literacy and Numeracy can be used across the curriculum to raise standards
• Have experience of embedding innovative strategies for improving teaching and learning
• Have experience of managing and implementing change successfully
• Have experience of using coaching as a model for ensuring on going professional development

Safeguarding Notice

The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Before applying, please review our Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders.

Equal Opportunities

The Harris Federation is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.

As a provider of employment and education, we value the diversity of our staff and students, and all our staff are equally valued and respected. We are committed to providing a fair, equitable and mutually supportive learning and working environment for our students and staff.