Temporary DLP - SEND Hub Lead & SENDCO Consultant
St John Wall Catholic School
Birmingham
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership 1- 5
- Job type:
- Full Time, Temporary
- Start date:
- 01/09/2024
- Apply by:
- 13 May 2024
Job overview
Are you passionate about supporting young people to thrive academically and personally? Would you like to be a leader across two friendly organisations that are committed to working towards the very best outcomes for all learners within their culturally diverse and economically disadvantaged catchment areas?
This is a unique opportunity to lead on the Developing Local Provision funded project for North West secondary schools. In this role you will be enhancing provision for pupils across the fourteen North West secondary schools. The main element of this project is leading two literacy intervention hubs, one based at St John Wall Catholic School, the other at Hamstead Hall Academy. There are a number of other DLP activities that you would also oversee, including CPD, SENDCO Network meetings, SEND attendance and Inclusion. There is a team of established staff in in place already delivering on these.
Working time: Part-time (0.8 FTE). 2 days per week at Saint John Wall Catholic School and 2 days per week at Hamstead Hall Academy.
In addition to this 0.8 FTE role, you would undertake SENDO consultancy for 0.2 FTE of your time at St John Wall Catholic School. You would have a small team of Pupil coaches and a nominated teacher to support you in this role. You are encouraged to contact our current DLP Lead, Alex Hough, email ahough@sjw.bham.sch.uk to find out more details. You are also welcome to visit both schools to see us in action!
Hamstead Hall Academy is a secondary school within the Hamstead Hall Academies Trust, with a track record of outstanding academic results and an excellent reputation in the community. One of the key hallmarks of Hamstead Hall Academy is the positive, friendly and supportive ethos which enables all pupils to make progress. In it’s last Ofsted inspection (Jan 2019) Hamstead Hall Academy were judged to be ‘Good’ in all areas.
Saint John Wall Catholic School is an oversubscribed 11‐16 school with a mixed and diverse population, serving the community of North West Birmingham. Over 50% of our pupils qualify for additional Pupil Premium funding, and there are over 50 different languages spoken by members of our school community! We endeavour ‘to educate each and every unique child in our care to hear and respond to what God calls them to be’. As a Catholic School we will expect that you actively support the Catholic ethos, and help us to follow the highest standards of safeguarding for our pupils. In our last Ofsted inspection (June 2023) Saint John Wall Catholic School was judged to be ‘Good’ and in our latest CSI (February 2024) we were judged to be ‘Good with Outstanding features’.
The successful candidate will be subject to enhanced DBS, an online search and any other relevant employment checks.
Attached documents
About St John Wall Catholic School
- St John Wall Catholic School
- Oxhill Road, Handsworth, Birmingham
- West Midlands
- B21 8HH
- United Kingdom
St John Wall Catholic School is a co-educational voluntary aided school based in Birmingham for students aged 11-16. It is a Roman Catholic school.
Headteacher
Katherine Marston
Values and vision
St John Wall Catholic School has a distinctive Catholic ethos that it hopes will support deep personal faith but also welcomes diversity and differences in beliefs and culture. The school prides itself on having what it claims to be a dedicated teaching and support staff that monitor and challenge students to achieve their maximum potential.
The school claims to have a learning environment which is modern, well-equipped, resourceful and regularly updated. Student safety is seen as paramount to its existence. It aims to foster academic achievement levels that provide pupils with the opportunity to experience higher education at well regarded institutions as well as allowing legitimate pathways into training, apprenticeships, and other further education outlets. Also on offer are opportunities to travel, observe different lifestyles and cultures, take up new activities and sports, participate in local and national competitions, and develop effective communication skills.
Ofsted
“This is a good school which is permeated by a strong ethos for the welfare and progress of every student. As members of a very harmonious community, students from diverse cultural backgrounds take a full part in the life of the school. The quality of teaching is good. Students make good progress. Students who are from backgrounds with above average social deprivation make particularly good progress. Teaching is good and a significant proportion is outstanding.”
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