Deputy Headteacher with SENCo responsibilities

Starting Salary: £60,632 to £68,000 per annum

Location: Create in the Community, main hub (IG11) and other community learning settings.

Contract: Permanent, Term time + 3 weeks.

Are you an experienced, outstanding senior leader with substantial teaching experience in a specialist school?

Have you been successful in leading a school's SEN Co-ordination, providing support, guidance and formal reviews of SEN provision ensuring young people with neurodiverse identities thrive?

Do you make evidence based decisions to drive successful outcomes for young people?

This role is open to appropriately experienced applicants with the NASENCo qualification or who is willing to undertake.

We are seeking a highly child-centric education professional to lead the provision of SEN support across our community based service, providing advice and guidance to teachers, practitioners and parents in order to fully support the needs of highly complex and vulnerable young people across London.

In this role you will coordinate and chair all annual reviews, ensuring they are undertaken in an appropriate timely manner and is a pupil-centric review, inclusive of the pupil's own voice, as part of the wider remit of delivering strategic development of the online school's Special Educational Needs (SEN) provision. You will lead your staff team to adapt teaching & learning opportunities to allow our vulnerable and complex young pupils to thrive, gain qualifications and become successful independent adults and leaders.

You will provide expertise in holistic child focussed solutions, ensuring all staff, pupils and parents/carers have the right resources, knowledge and skills to meet individual SEN needs, ensure effective pupil progress, a passion for life-long learning and career development, with the skills to positively influence our community and society.

The Complete Education Solution (TCES) is a long-established provider of therapeutic education, supporting neurodiverse children and young people up and down the UK. Our multi-disciplinary teams across the organisation work together to provide child-centric support, engaging with clinical, educational and social work experts, as well as partnering with our pupils’ families.

Essential requirements to be successful in the role are:

• A champion of SEN and advocate for young people with similar values to match ours: Expect the very best from each other; Develop a strong work ethic; Respect and appreciate all difference; Include everyone and exclude no one; Listen to and involve everyone; Never give up on each other!
• Resilient and robust, role modelling outstanding teaching and professionalism.
• Substantial demonstrable experience within specialist therapeutic education provisions or specialist schools, collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams of educators, clinicians and social workers.
• Proven experience of positive performance management & developing teams, inclusive of coaching and influencing staff to deliver innovative ways of working and teaching.
• Demonstrable experience in meeting needs of individuals, providing bespoke interventions, and educational administration linked to Education, Health & Care Plans (EHCPs)
• Experience of driving inclusive education initiatives to support best practice with vulnerable and complex groups.
• Proven skills in coaching & mentoring.
• Proactive and innovative, collaborating with team members in other disciplines, whilst also with the ability to work flexibly and independently.

In return we offer:

• Competitive salary, terms and conditions, school holidays and consistent monthly pay.
• An opportunity to make a real difference and join a leading provider of specialist education, directly contributing towards positive outcomes for pupils with SEMH and ASC.
• Excellent CPD opportunities with all staff provided an individual Learning & Development Plan to support career development, including education qualifications at all levels (QTS / QTLS / NPQs) and options to take progressive Ofqual registered Level 3 – 5 qualifications in Therapeutic Education.
• Comprehensive induction process, including all pupil-facing staff supported in receiving the Level 3 Award in Therapeutic Education and Group Process.
• Regular half termly staff wellbeing days.
• A range of employee support and wellbeing benefits including our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), counselling and contributions towards medical costs and an exclusive rewards platform.

Closing date 6 May 2024

To apply:

To apply, please complete an application here. For more information please contact recruitment@tces.org.uk

TCES is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and expects all staff to share this commitment. The appointment is subject to all relevant checks such as references, medical clearance and a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure.

The Complete Education Solution is an equal opportunity employer.