SENDCO and Resource Base Lead
Longdendale High School
Tameside, Manchester
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Scale L5-9
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 15 May 2024
Job overview
SENDCO and Resource Base Lead
Leadership Scale L5-9
Required for September 2024
This is an exciting opportunity for an inclusive and committed teacher and leader to join the leadership team at Longdendale High School. Required from September 2024, we wish to appoint an exceptional SENDCO and Resource Base Lead. This is an exciting opportunity for a talented and dynamic professional with a passion for ensuring the best provision for SEND students in all areas of school life to develop your career in an innovative, challenging and highly supportive secondary environment. The successful applicant will have responsibility for the strategic direction and management of SEND provision across the school and the strategic oversight and leadership of the school’s specialist ASC resource base that is due to open in the next academic year.
As an inspirational teacher with a passion for and a strong understanding of SEND provision and practice, your key responsibility will be to provide strategic leadership and direction that ensures consistent high quality provision for SEND students which secures striking impact on standards and outcomes for students in our school. You will lead the development of a highly committed team of professionals who are passionate about raising standards and who are determined to further develop provision and learning outcomes for all students. This team includes a full-time Assistant SENDCO.
This is an exciting time to be applying for this role as the school will be opening a purpose-built specialist ASC Resource Base in 2024-25, and the successful candidate will have strategic oversight and responsibility for this provision.
This role will allow you to develop your own career in an innovative, challenging and highly supportive educational trust. We will invest in you and provide you with the best resourcing and a personal programme of professional development.
Longdendale High School is a popular comprehensive 11-16 academy set at the edge of the Peak District on the border of Tameside and Derbyshire. We have a current intake of 850 students with cohorts typically above the national average in terms of prior attainment.
Our students are provided with excellent opportunities in all areas of the curriculum. The successful candidate will play a key role in our continuing journey of improvement as we work relentlessly to ensure all students are supported to achieve their full potential and flourish in all aspects of school life. Longdendale High School is a highly inclusive school, with a strong vision for ongoing improvement.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment is subject to satisfactory enhanced status checks from the Disclosure and Barring Service. The school promotes equal opportunities.
Application Process
Application forms are to be completed and returned to recruitment@spt.ac.uk
Please check the school website under the job vacancies section for further information.
Closing date for applications: Midday Wednesday 15th May 2024
Interviews: W/C 20th May 2024
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS, where appropriate.
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About Longdendale High School
- Longdendale High School
- Spring Street, Hollingworth, Hyde
- Cheshire
- SK14 8LW
- United Kingdom
Longdendale High School is a forward thinking and popular comprehensive 11-16 academy set at the edge of the Peak District on the border of Tameside and Derbyshire. We have a current intake of 850 learners with cohorts typically above the national average in terms of prior attainment.
Our learners are provided with excellent opportunities in all areas of the curriculum. The successful candidate will play a key role in our continuing journey of improvement as we work relentlessly Longdendale High School is a highly inclusive school, with a strong vision for ongoing improvement to ensure all learners are supported to achieve their full potential and flourish in all aspects of school life. Learners follow an ambitious curriculum, which is broad and balanced, and supports future progression routes – as a result of the strong core academic curriculum the EBacc entry profile is significantly above national averages every year. Alongside this, learners can choose to study a range of vocational and practical and creative subjects, and these subjects perform consistently above national averages.
In February 2020, Longdendale High School was designated as a National Flagship School for Inclusion, having held the Inclusion Quality Mark, Centre of Excellence for the previous four years. This is a reflection of the exceptional support, care and guidance our learners are provided with to remove barriers to learning and to achieve success in all areas of school life throughout their educational journey with us. In recognition of the collaborative approach with families to support learners, Longdendale has also held the Leading Parent Partnership Award for the past two years.
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