SENCo
Harris Academy Battersea
Wandsworth
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Scale (Inner London)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2021
- Apply by:
- 21 May 2021
Job overview
Harris Academy Battersea is seeking to appoint a inspirational and passionate experienced qualified Teacher as SENCO.
Your opportunity:
Passionate about making a difference? As SENCO, you will have the opportunity to work with the SLT to ensure an ethos of inclusion and high aspirations for students with SEND.
The purposes of the SENCO role include:
- To ensure that Academy practice is compliant with the SEND Code of Practice (2014) and other relevant statutory requirements
- To work with the SLT ensuring the implementation of our SEND Policy
- To ensure that the provision of SEND support is in accordance with our aims and policies
- To maintain the Academy’s SEND profile, ensuring that it is always up-to-date and accurate
- To be responsible for the accurate identification of SEND need across the Academy, ensuring a rigorous and thorough assessment process
- To be responsible for our SEND offer, ensuring high quality targeted interventions enabling students with SEND to make better progress
- In consultation with the SLT, to provide an effective programme of professional development with regard to SEND
- To be responsible for tracking the progress of students with SEND
- To deploy staff and resources according to the needs of SEND students.
- To write a termly report to the Governing body on progress and developments.
We can offer you the opportunity to advance your career within a supportive academy environment. You will be part of a Federation established in developing practitioners and nurturing excellent future leaders, with unrivalled opportunities for progression; whatever your aspirations as a teacher, middle or senior leader, our Teaching School Alliance provides a range of bespoke courses and qualifications, including our Aspiring Leaders NPQML and NPQSL programmes to help you achieve your ambitions more quickly.
What we are looking for
We look for talented individuals who want to be a part of transforming education in London, and helping create exceptional places of learning. The successful candidate will have:
- QTS (or equivalent) and an undergraduate degree
- Evidence of CPD relevant to the SENCO role (or willingness to undertake this training) and, ideally, SpLD Assessment Practising Certificate or equivalent qualification
- SEN experience in a secondary school
- The vision to develop the SENCO role within a high achieving Academy
Please download the job pack for a full job description and person specification.
Why work at Harris Academy Battersea?
In 2017, the school was named the 'Evening Standard School of the Year' and has been ranked as the 4th school in the country for two years running. With a Progress 8 score of +1.49, students achieve nearly one-and-a-half grades higher than they would in an average school and such progress, alongside the best A-level results in Wandsworth, reflects the exceptional dedication with which everyone in the academy applies themselves.
The staff body is an incredible group of people. They are dynamic, thoughtful and innovative practitioners who do everything that they can to help our children succeed and we are looking for someone similar to join us. We recognise that teaching is a demanding career and it is our aim to make sure that staff who have chosen to are as well supported as they can be. We have a zero tolerance approach to anything that interrupts the learning in a classroom and our central team deals with will all behaviour issues, non-completion of homework, phone-calls and detentions to make sure that teachers are as free as possible to do the three things that matter most: mark, plan and teach.
Any position in education is inevitably laden with values and ideals and we are a school built on a shared ownership of these. We wish to give our students the very best start that we can in life and, through hard work and determination, we hope that our values and ideals take shape as something recognisable in the futures that we help build.
Harris Academy Battersea is modern and innovative, but with old-fashioned values. Its aim is to shape the lives of students by providing them with the best possible academic outcomes from outstanding courses and – crucially – the experiences and guidance that will help them become resilient, resourceful, reflective and respectful, emotionally intelligent global citizens.
Next Steps
Please download the Job Pack for full details on the job responsibilities and person specification. You will need this when completing your online application.
If you have any questions about this opportunity, please contact us via e-mail, or call to arrange a conversation.
Please note: we may hold interviews as and when applications are received, and this job may be withdrawn without notice. Applications will only be considered if submitted online and before the closing deadline. With this in mind, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Our Benefits Package
In addition to the opportunities for career progression, training and development, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package.
Find out more about Our Benefits
Being a part of the Harris Federation
We are recognised as the top performing large multi-academy trust in England for primary and secondary education. Closing the gap between young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers has always been a core mission of Harris. Holding a reputation for bringing transformative approaches to education, we hold a unrivalled track record in achieving success through rapid school improvement.
Our people are at the heart of this success. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of training programmes available at every stage of your career.
We look for talented individuals who share our vision for creating exceptional places of learning, and are committed to ensuring that every child in London has access to the best possible education.
Learn more About Harris and our Vision and Values
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.
Read our Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders
Diversity and Equality
We are committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.
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About Harris Academy Battersea
- Harris Academy Battersea
- 401 Battersea Park Road, Battersea
- London
- SW11 5AP
- United Kingdom
School summary
Harris Academy Battersea will be in its 8th academic year in 2021-2022 and has established itself as one of the highest performing schools in London, judged to be Outstanding by Ofsted in 2018. In 2017, it was awarded the Evening Standard School of the Year as well as being named one of the Sunday Times Top 20 Schools in the country. We are immensely proud of our students’ achievements at Harris Academy Battersea, where their progress measures (1.08, 1.47, 1.22, 0.92, 1.39* and 1.36* P8) defy expectations and set out what it is possible to achieve with hard work from all stakeholders. This is achieved through high expectations for all stakeholders, a high-quality curriculum, brilliant teaching with each teacher wanting to get better every day and, most importantly, an embedded culture that drives every decision in the school. This strong culture wraps around the three key characteristics of the most successful schools: high aspiration, high motivation and strong social norms.
Academy Ethos
The development of our students academically, personally and professionally is at the heart of everything we do at Harris Academy Battersea. We have created a new vision for the school to reflect this: ‘We develop aspirational young people to thrive in a changing world’.
Our core values of Knowledge, Integrity and Resilience underpin this vision and will form an integral part of student’s daily school life. Students should leave us not only having fulfilled their personal best in terms of academic results, but also equipped with these core values to enable them to thrive in all stages of their lives. Equally, we wish for our school and young people to serve the community and a school that the community is proud to have on its doorstep.
The values of Knowledge, Integrity and Resilience embody the qualities we expect to see in our young people. Our definition of these values is outlined below.
Knowledge: ‘I want to learn something new every day’
- I will gain knowledge to be able to confidently engage in any discussion, any time.
- I will think carefully before I trust information I see, hear and read.
- I will share knowledge to help others.
- I will always seek to further my own knowledge, now and in the future.
- I will make links between different pieces of knowledge and subjects.
Resilience: ‘Try, fail, try, fail, try, succeed’
- I will give 100% effort 100% of the time.
- I will understand my emotions and work hard to manage them effectively.
- I will develop and maintain positive relationships with others even when it is tough to do so.
- I will take any setback as a learning opportunity.
- I will try new things outside my comfort zone.
Integrity: ‘I do the right thing even when it is difficult to do so’
- I will do the right thing even when no one is looking, and I will encourage others to do so too.
- I will treat others as they wish to be treated.
- I will take responsibility for my actions and encourage others to do so.
- I will support others to be the best they can be.
- I will respect the diversity, cultures, beliefs and differences of others.
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