Vice Principal for Vulnerable Learners (with SENDCO responsibility)

Location: Glenbrook Spencer Academy

Leadership 6-10

Full Time, Permanent

We are seeking to appoint a Vice Principal for Vulnerable Learners who is either a current or aspiring senior leader. The successful candidate would be an experienced SENDCO, or someone who is passionate about SEND and ready to learn on the job, who is ready to take responsibility beyond this remit and ensure learners who are disadvantaged, SEND, EAL or low attenders achieve excellence.

Glenbrook is at an exciting stage in its journey to be an outstanding educational provider. Glenbrook is ambitious, supportive and committed to excellence. It is a diverse community with learners from different backgrounds, ethnicities and belief systems. We secured a Good OFSTED judgement in November 2022 and have continued to make progress since then. The successful candidate would join a high performing team and would be supported by colleagues within the academy and from the Spencer Academy Trust.

We want our vulnerable learners to achieve and be prepared to leave Glenbrook ready for the next stage of their education. We don’t believe in excuses and want a SENDCO who is determined that all our pupils achieve in the classroom and beyond. Our pupils have a range of needs and we need to appoint a person who has a strong knowledge of the best strategies to support pupils to achieve. In addition, some of our learners with more complex needs require funding and support from outside agencies: the successful candidate will need to be confident in liaising with the local authority and securing maximum funding.

There will be a classroom teaching element attached to the role as well which will be for a maximum of 2 days per week. In this aspect of the role, the candidate will be expected to role model outstanding teaching at all times.

This role is a fantastic chance to make a difference and have an impact on the lives of pupils who need their potential unlocked. Please get in touch with the school through office@glenbrookspencer.org.uk to arrange a visit or to ask any more questions about the role.

Spencer Academies Trust is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2200 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.

We currently have 17 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and one primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers, and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country, and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.

Mission

Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.

Vision

Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.

We Believe: 

• All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability, and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development.
• Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a ‘family’ and are open to a true sense of partnership.
• We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more.

Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff.

The Spencer Academies Trust Safer recruitment policy requires applications for this post must be submitted through our recruitment portal. CV’s cannot be accepted. We are also required to request references prior to interview.  

Please submit your application by no later than 16th May 2024. Our application deadline can end earlier where we have received a positive response, so if you are keen to apply, please add your profile to this vacancy as soon as possible.

Interview date: w/c 20th May 2024

Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date.

How to Apply

Applications are submitted through our Every Candidate Portal. If you are a new user to our portal, you can click on ‘Register’ to complete your candidate profile. If you already have a candidate profile with us, click on ‘Sign In’.   Both of these routes allow you to feed your candidate information into any of our vacancies and view the status of your application. 

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Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and young people. Therefore, we expect everyone to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre- employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Barred List Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the completion of Level 2 Safeguarding training. It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children (where the role involves this type of regulated activity).

The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents, governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients and other stakeholders within the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respect regardless of Protected Characteristics.

Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer

We offer a comprehensive range of employee benefits, please visit:  http://satrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/SAT-Employee-Benefits-September-2022.pdf