Assistant SENCo
Aurora Poppyfield School
Surrey
- £27,713 - £30,250 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 7 October 2025
Job overview
- You want to make a difference in the lives of our pupils and their families.
- You are looking for a role where you are given the opportunity to lead lessons and develop your skills to support teaching and learning.
- You want to contribute to our broad and creative curriculum offer.
- You want to work with an inspiring pupil population.
- You enjoy working as part of a collaborative and committed multi-disciplinary team.
- You have a strong commitment to pupil and staff well-being and want to work in an organisation with the same strong values.
- You want to work within an organisation that support, develops and invests in their staff.
- Set up systems for identifying, reviewing and monitoring need. This includes the management (chairing) of Annual Reviews for EHCPs
- Keep parents informed about their child's progress through individual meetings and at parents’ evenings
- Support SENDCo in delivering training opportunities for learning support assistants and teachers to learn about SEN, including whole-school inset
- Disseminate good practice in SEN across the school
- To support the SENDCo with the development of transition arrangements and integration into provision post-Eccles
- Liaise with the outside professionals and manage/disseminate to staff their reporting
- To keep abreast of developments in SEN (e.g. research, changes to the law) and inform SLT and Head where appropriate
- To attend appropriate training, CPD and conferences and provide feedback to colleagues
- Support teaching staff in modelling good practice in teaching pupils with SEN including those with more complex needs
- SENCO/Access Arrangement Assessor qualifications preferred, or the desire to acquire these.
- GCSE Maths and English qualification minimum Grade 4 or equivalent is essential
- Teaching qualification preferable but not essential, however teaching qualification is needed to achieve the National Award in SEND Coordination.
- Relevant and recent knowledge and experience of pupils with SEN
- Sound working knowledge of the SEND Code of Practice
- Understanding of the Safeguarding principles and Child Protection procedures
- Experience of implementing a range of approaches to behaviour, including managing behaviours that challenge
- A person-centred approach to SEND delivery, and commitment to meet individual needs of each pupil
- Nurture positivity and creativity in meeting pupils’ needs
- Work on your own as well as part of a team
- Work collaboratively with other staff and professionals with good interpersonal skills
- Good numeracy and excellent literacy skills
- Confidence and fluency in using appropriate terminology and language specific to the field of SEND
- Competent ICT skills
- Life assurance
- Enhanced Pension
- Perkbox - offering high street discounts.
- Employee assistance programme
- Car lease scheme
- Fully funded training and qualifications
- Bike to work scheme.
- Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.
Attached documents
About Aurora Poppyfield School
- Aurora Poppyfield School
- 410 Lower Road, Effingham, Leatherhead
- KT24 5JP
- United Kingdom
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the website for Poppyfield School, part of the Aurora Group of schools in Surrey.
The Aurora mission is to provide innovative, high quality education, care and support, enabling all children and young people to thrive and fulfil their aspirations. Aurora has a vision to be trusted as the provider and employer of choice, transforming the lives of a growing number of children and young people.
The work of all our schools and services is founded on the Aurora values: Caring; Ambitious; Collaborative; Trusted and Innovative. That means that our schools are different from many other schools in that we find bespoke solutions to individual challenges and profiles without reduced expectations and aspirations for students.
We use connections in the Surrey area and beyond, to provide the best possible opportunities to prepare our students for purposeful adulthood. Whether students follow a predominantly academic or vocational path, or a combination of both, we support them every step of the way towards greater independence, employment and to making a positive contribution to society that will help fulfil their adult lives.
We value qualifications and we also recognise the need to prepare our students to live enriched, connected, meaningful adult lives, during which they will take their place in society.
David Thomas
Principal, Aurora Poppyfield School
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