SEND Administrator (Felixstowe Campus)

The Bridge School 

SEND Administrator (Felixstowe Campus)

Contract: Part Time, Permanent (37.5 hours per week / 38 weeks per year)

Salary: Grade 4, SP 9 12 (FTE £25,119 to £27,334 / Actual £21,287 to £23,164)

Start date: July 2024 

This is an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly improving special school, which joined Unity Schools Partnership multi-academy trust in June 2019. This role is based at the new campus on Maidstone Road in Felixstowe. Initially you will work alongside the team at the main campus in Ipswich until the new campus opens on the 3rd September. 

The Role is within the administrative team working collaboratively with the Senior Leadership Team, class teachers and the NHS therapy teams to ensure that pupils EHCP’s PEP’s and other Local Authority paperwork to co-ordinate and attend multi-agency team meetings and ensure documentation is accurate and up to date and correctly distributed. 

This role is suited to a highly skilled administrator with high levels of literacy, grammar and fast, accurate typing skills and computer literacy. Must be able to self-manage and be highly organised. You will oversee the reception area, ensuring visitors, students and parents all receive a warm welcome, and managing the day-to-day administrative duties of a school office. 

The Bridge Special School is a popular school educating children and young people between the ages of 3 - 16 who have a wide range of communication, physical, and profound and multiple learning difficulties. Many of the pupils are on the Autistic Spectrum. The school serves a catchment area that covers Ipswich and surrounding areas of Suffolk. The whole school is based on one campus with the newest part of the building opening in September 2020 The school is part of a collaborative, forward thinking Academy Trust. 

Unity Schools Partnership will be creating a network of special schools working together as we have recently been approved to open a new special school in Saxmundham, as well as al-ready having special schools in Ipswich and Haverhill. 

For more information, to arrange a visit or an informal discussion about the role please contact Mel Scrafield Office Manager on mel.scrafield@thebridgeschool.org.uk or call 01473 556200 

Please be advised that this advert may close early if we experience a high volume of applications. 

Closing Date: 9:00am, 9th June 2024 

Interview date: 11th June 2024 

Unity Schools Partnership is committed to safer recruitment, equal opportunities, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be required. 

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