Assistant SENDCo

Post Title: Assistant SENDCo.

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Full Time, permanent.

Salary: United Learning PayScale – Competitive & dependent on experience.

Reporting to: SENDCo

Conditions of Service: United Learning Contract

Start Date: September 2024 or sooner

The Vacancy

Salford City Academy has an exciting opportunity to appoint an Assistant SENDCo. This is an excellent opportunity for an excellent candidate who is passionate about supporting students with additional needs and making a difference in the lives of young people.

We are looking for an excellent teacher who is organised strategic development of our culture of excellence across student attendance, behaviour and safeguarding in the academy. The Vice Principal - Pastoral will be a prominent, visible presence around the academy and will promote strong relationships with all stakeholders. To be successful, you will lead with confidence and conviction and will be passionate about the power of education to transform lives. You will demonstrate impeccable professionalism, unwavering determination, and relentless optimism. Able to lead by example and be a source of inspiration, you will support and guide colleagues whilst demonstrating a love of your subject to cultivate a similar passion in your students. Furthermore, you will have the highest expectations of every student in terms of achievement, character, and conduct.

There is no better time to join our academy. We continue to improve year on year, our academy is oversubscribed, enabling us to expand our team significantly and invest heavily in the school building and site. Please read further information below and watch our ‘Why join us’ video to find out more!

To book onto our recruitment open day please scan the following QR code and book your place.

Open Events taking place:

Recruitment Open Day for all vacancies – Tuesday 5th December (Morning session 9.00am – 11.00am)

Afternoon session 2.00pm – 3.30pm) Meet the Senior Team, tour, and lesson visit.

If you are unable to attend on the 5th of December, please email helen.ferry@salfordcity-academy.org to book a time to meet the current SENDCo and visit the school.

Why choose us?

High achieving school – verified by Ofsted and through our GCSE results.

Salford City Academy is highly ambitious and very successful 11- 16 academy which is part of the United Learning Multi- academy Trust. In February 2022 Ofsted judged the academy to continue to be a good school citing ‘Pupils at Salford City Academy said that they enjoy coming to school to learn. They feel happy and safe at school.’ Leaders have high expectations of pupils’ behaviour. Pupils behave well in lessons and around the school. They are polite, courteous and well-mannered. Leaders do not tolerate any derogatory behaviour. Pupils respect each other’s differences.’

Academic results at the academy have improves significantly from 2019. We were delighted to celebrate well above average results in 2022 and this summer we continued to achieve within the top three schools in Salford. Results in Maths and Science place us in the top 20% of all schools in the country.

State of the art facilities

The academy enjoys state of the art facilities and has a committed, high quality teaching team which is focussed on engaging and motivating all students. We have invested over 3.5 million in the last two years and a further 1.5 committed to be invested. Into the building over the past five years and investment won’t stop into the future. We have a state-of-the-art gymnasium, free for all staff, brand new dining, and catering facilities, vast outside space with a new 3G pitch, newly built music and drama rooms. Our digital strategy ensures students and staff have access to the latest digital and electronic resources. With staff having a personal surface pro laptop.

Mission Statement

Our vision is to provide an excellent education for all our students, which brings out the best in all of them and prepares them for success in life. The academy is an exciting place to be, and it is an excellent time to join us.

We are proud members of the Salford community, constantly striving to be the best and bringing out the best in everyone. Tolerance, mutual respect, honesty, and co-operation are fostered in line with our Culture of Excellence. All students and staff strive for excellence and demonstrate this through our Culture of Excellence values -Responsibility, Excellence, Aspiration, Commitment and Teamwork. These underpin every aspect of our curriculum and academy life.

We feel passionately about supporting students to overcome any barriers to learning and promoting diversity and tolerance across the academy. We have an extensive personal development programme ‘Aspire’ which incorporates all aspects of student’s wider development. ‘Pupils make a valuable contribution to the life of the school. This is particularly evident in the work of the prefects. Pupils spoke highly of the rewards programme. Disadvantaged pupils, and those pupils with SEND, engage fully in all aspects of school life.’ Ofsted 2022.

What do we offer:

Disruption free learning

We believe passionately that students should learn in a disruption free environment. Our expectations of behaviour are very high, and we believe that all of our students are capable of meeting them. We accept no excuses for disruption to learning or poor behaviour. We have a very clear and well-structured behaviour system which supports this.

Excellent continuous professional development and collaboration

Salford City Academy is committed to professional development; all staff are expected to actively participate in a programme of continuing professional development (CPD). We work collaboratively, share good practice, and have a Trust-wide approach to development. We need to make sure that we have the right people in the right place, doing the job that is needed to build excellent provision for our children and young people. Staff are supported professionally to ensure they can do that and are valued and recognised for their work. We have an extensive professional development programme within the academy, where staff are involved in reflective practice, coaching, weekly deliberate practice and CPD focused on academy, subject and individual priorities.

If you want to find out more, please visit our website

https://www.salfordcity-academy.org/

To apply, please complete the online application form by clicking ‘apply here’

Closing Date: Friday 19th January 2024

Interviews: Wednesday 24th January 2024

This position is subject to an enhanced DBS clearance.