Special Educational Needs & Disability Coordinator (SENDCo)
Tower Hill School
Oxfordshire
- £24,373 - £40,490 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS plus SEN Allowance FTE
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01/09/2020
- Apply by:
- 18 June 2020
Job overview
Contract: Permanent
Salary: MPS/UPS + SEN allowance £24,373 -£40,090 MPS/UPS plus SEN Allowance - FTE
Hours: 2 days per week - working pattern to be agreed
Closing Date: 18th June 2020 midday
Interview Date: 1st July
Start Date: 1 September 2020
We’re looking for an inspirational Special Educational Needs and Disability Coordinator (SENDCo) with a proven track record of success in improving standards and raising pupil outcomes. We want to hear from talented middle leaders looking to extend their experience, and outstanding, ambitious teachers seeking their first middle leadership post. The successful candidate will be a committed team player with excellent organisational and motivational skills.
WE OFFER:
A strong commitment to your professional development and career management.
An opportunity to be part of a dynamic and supportive team.
An opportunity to work closely with the RIver Learning Trust.
Courteous and hard working pupils.
Salary will depend upon experience
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
You will:
Have a degree-level qualification and Qualified Teacher Status.
Be an experienced practitioner, ideally with a strong background in working with children with SEN.
Have a track record of delivering ‘outstanding’ teaching.
Hold the national SENCo qualification or be working towards it.
Have a thorough understanding of the SEN Code of Practice.
Have a minimum of three years' teaching experience.
You will be:
Committed to ensuring SEND students excel both personally and academically.
Keen to develop professionally.
Organised and experienced in leading and managing other staff
An excellent team player and communicator, able to liaise with a variety of external agencies.
Prepared to model teach and team teach with our teaching and learning staff.
Positive and forward thinking.
Calm and empathetic.
Due to the current Covid-19 lockdown, we are unable to facilitate visits to the school at time. However, please feel free to download the job description and person specification for further information about the role. For an informal and confidential discussion about the role please call us on 01993 702599.
Tower Hill is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post involves the type of work with children and young people that requires applicants to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post. All users are considered confidential and according to the nature of the role and information disclosed.
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About Tower Hill School
Welcome to Tower Hill School. We are a Good-rated primary school in the Oxfordshire market town of Witney. We are a single-form-entry school, set in beautiful grounds, with a very large playing field. We have our own library bus and a dell – an outdoor classroom area that we use for outdoor learning and Forest School.
We pride ourselves in being a happy, safe, caring and progressive school, where staff and families work together to nurture self-belief and inspire a love for learning. We are a place where every child will reach their own unique potential through high expectations and where all of our children, families and staff are valued, respected and supported. Tower Hill is a place where the educational, physical, emotional and spiritual needs of every child will be met.
Within a warm, nurturing environment, we engage our children with high-quality teaching, high-quality learning and high expectations in everything we do.
Working in close partnership with parents, the whole school community strives to give our children the best possible start in life, so that their true and full potential can be reached.
Working for us
You’ll be joining an extremely friendly, well-motivated and enthusiastic staff determined to make our school exceptional.
We can offer you:
- A positive staff culture with extremely high expectations of work and behaviour
- Well-behaved children
- A leadership team that views professional development as a priority
- A friendly and well-motivated staff and an inclusive community in which you can flourish
- The opportunity to continue your career working alongside fabulous teachers and teaching assistants.
About River Learning Trust
Tower Hill School is a member of River Learning Trust, a Multi-Academy Trust responsible for around 30 schools and a school-centred initial teacher training (SCITT) provider within Oxfordshire and Swindon. We’re a Trust committed to the professional learning and development of staff with high-quality training in-school and through the Oxfordshire Teaching Schools Alliance.
As a school-led organisation, we are always keen to recruit and train the very best individuals who we hope will go on to become excellent teachers in our partnership of schools. We operate under the title, Oxfordshire Teacher Training and all the details of our programmes can be found at http://www.oxfordshireteachertraining.co.uk.
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