Assistant SENCO

Salary:                               M1 – U3 £28,000 - £43,685 FTE salary per annum + TLR 2b £5,021

Working hours:               32.5 hours per week, whole year

Contract type:                 Permanent, Full Time

Start date:                        September 2023 or January 2024

The 4 Day Week Campaign believes it would “dramatically improve the lives of teachers”. We are always looking for new ways to improve everyone’s work/life balance at The Westleigh School and we are excited to have been asked to be part of a trial of the 4-Day teaching week for staff whilst continuing to receive full-time pay, from September 2023.

As a school we are passionate about inclusion and we are looking for someone who shares the same drive and commitment. We are looking to appoint a highly effective and motivated Assistant SENCO, who will work effectively as part of our supportive team and who will make an impact on the outcomes for all our students.

The successful candidate will ideally be a Teacher of English in first instance, although applications from other subject areas welcomed. You will work with all stakeholders to ensure that children with additional needs, vulnerabilities or barriers to learning receive the support they need to learn, progress successfully and maximise their potential. The successful applicant will support the strategic development of the SEN policy and provision in the school, coordinating specific provision to support individual pupils with SEN or a disability and working closely with parents, staff and other agencies.

Our ethos is ‘Aspiring and Achieving Together’ and the school vision is;

·      Create a culture of respect where all members feel valued and included, encourage innovation, and strive for excellence in all endeavours.

·      Provide students with outstanding pastoral support, guidance, and resources necessary to thrive academically, creatively, and personally.

·      Deliver a rigorous and empowering curriculum with employability skills at the core, in order to prepare students for navigating an ever-changing world. 

The Westleigh School enjoys a successful partnership with the Shaw Education Trust, which is a growing multi academy trust led by an Executive Leadership Team steeped in school leadership and improvement experience. Working with the Shaw Education Trust also allows colleagues to access a large range of well-established training opportunities and work alongside like-minded professionals across a range of schools. 

SHAW EDUCATION TRUST was established in 2014 and is sponsored by Shaw Trust and is a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life. Unlike other MATs, we don’t enforce a curriculum for all our schools to follow. Instead, we support each individual school to offer a programme that enables our students to deepen their knowledge, develop their skills, sparks their imagination and fires their curiosity.

To achieve this, we pledge an unswerving commitment to improve, accelerate and enable ambitious life goals amongst all our students, and provide our schools with the support they need to deliver the highest possible quality of education. Every action we take as a Trust is guided by our core values, with the best interest of our students and staff members at the heart of everything we do.

The Shaw Education Trust offer the following benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:

·       An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)

·       Access to health and wellbeing support via Occupational Health

·       Cycle to work scheme

• Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.

Colleagues within the Trust benefit from:

·       Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include all of the National Professional Qualifications – NPQH, NPQSL, NPQML.

·       High quality subject and thematic networks across the Trust and the region.

·       Experienced leadership and subject-specific support.

·       Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.

·       Access to the Trust’s Teaching School, Research School, Institute of Education and SCITT.

·       Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.

·       Participating in peer reviews.

·       Access to a suite of online courses.

·       Placement projects within our family of schools.

The Westleigh School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment, click here to review Safeguarding and Pupil Protection Policy https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/key-information

This position is subject to appropriate vetting procedures including a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

In accordance with our safer recruitment policy CV’s alone will not be accepted.

Application deadline:    3.00pm on Sunday 11th June 2023

We reserve the right to appoint before the closing date, therefore, we encourage early applications.

Successful candidates will be subject to a fully Enhanced DBS check along with other relevant employment checks.