Director of Inclusion (SENDCO & Associate Senior Leader)

Director of Inclusion (SENDCO & Associate Senior Leader)

Salary: L6-10

Contract type: Permanent

Reporting to: Deputy Headteacher

Our school

You will be joining us at a very exciting time of development for our school. At the end of this academic year, we close our doors as Ashcroft High School. September 2021 will see the opening of Queen Elizabeth School and this role is an integral part of the leadership team.

Main purpose

The role exists to lead our approach to inclusion, ensuring the needs of all students are met, they have full access to our curriculum and are able to achieve their full potential.  It is a whole school responsibility as a member of the Associate Senior Leadership Team, developing the quality of our inclusion provision to enable all students to make excellent progress.

A large part of the role is leading the SEND department in ensuring an exceptional climate for learning in which staff are developed and vulnerable learners are supported to be able to flourish, both academically and in terms of their own personal development. The holder of this role will ensure that the day to day running of the SEND and inclusion provision function efficiently and effectively and that all relevant policies and procedures are fit for purpose and are applied robustly and fully.

Duties and responsibilities

• Develop a culture of high expectations for all of our students, challenging any misconceptions about what they are capable of achieving.

• Developing teachers’ pedagogical practice to ensure all students receive high quality teaching.

• Leading on the strategic planning and day to day coherent co-ordination of SEND and inclusion provision across the school.

• Leading on the delivery of appropriate intervention support for students across the school by developing support programs, schemes of learning and teaching and learning materials.

• Developing and maintaining highly effective partnerships with external professionals including those within the locality.

• Using assessment data and evidence-based practice to inform decision-making and evaluate, report on and intervene with the progress of SEND students and other vulnerable learners.

• Leading on provision mapping, resource funding and managing / measuring the impact of the allocation of delegated budget.

• Leading the implementation of exams access arrangements for students in need of them and all those identified as potentially needing them, including the logistics of testing, applications for access and maintenance of records.

• Recognising the potential vulnerability of students with SEND, including students with medical needs, when it comes to matters of safeguarding and child protection.

• Promoting positive transitions between learning stages, including liaison with other schools and provisions, to ensure continuity of support and learning when transferring students with SEND.

• To plan and teach lessons to the classes assigned within the context of the school’s plans, curriculum and schemes of work.

Leadership and Management

• Line Management of Staff within SEND and Inclusion

• Leadership of all SEN / Inclusion Provision

• Lead and manage Teaching Assistants working with students with SEND and additional needs

• Lead staff appraisals and produce appraisal reports

• Review staff performance on an ongoing basis

Other areas of responsibility

Contribution to the development, implementation and quality assurance of:

• Curriculum

• Teaching and Learning

Additional notes

•  Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each individual task undertaken may not be identified.

• Employees will be expected to comply with any reasonable request from a manager to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in this job description.

Closing date: 9:00am Thursday 20th May 2021

Interviews to be held: Tuesday 25th May 2021

If we receive a suitable application we may close the vacancy before the deadline.