Lead Practitioner; SENDCO

Lead Practitioner; SENDCO Lead Practitioner Pay Scale L8—L14 £59,457—£68,925 The Duston School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Closing Date: Friday 21st February 2025 Interviews: w/c 24th February 2025 

The Duston School is looking to appoint a Lead Practitioner; SENDCO • To be accountable for the learning and achievement of all students with Special Educational Needs including those with an Educational Healthcare Plan • To be an effective line manager for the SEN Teaching Assistants and administrative support staff. • To provide high quality leadership and management for the education of students with Special Educational Needs. • To develop effective partnerships with all stakeholders of the school to secure high levels of progress for students with Special Educational Needs. 

Do you want to work in a hugely successful and dramatically transformed school? Do you want to work in a school that operates on common sense and places people at the centre of all that is does? In joining the Duston School you will be joining a school that is: • Built upon strong values and principles • Places people at the heart of all that it does • Heavily over-subscribed • Nationally recognised, heralded and applauded • A Behaviour Hub Lead School • The 27th most improved school nationally, with GCSE outcomes in 2019 placing the school in the top 20% of all schools nationally and A Level results in the top 5% of all schools • GCSE and A Level outcomes in 2024 were the best in the school’s history • A school of Character • An Investors in People Gold School and Wellbeing • An Inclusion Quality Mark (IQM) Flagship School and National Champion School • A Global Equality Collective School • The home of ResearchED Northampton • A PKC Curriculum Hub • An Ofsted ‘Good’ school • Has its own alternative provision; The Positive Impact Centre (PIC)

Applying:

Please complete an application form (we do not accept a CV alone) along with a letter of application to the Principal.

Please email the application form and letter to: jobs@thedustonschool.org

If you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have been unsuccessful

on this occasion.

The Duston School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safer recruitment practice and all appointments are subject to satisfactory DBS checks. In addition references will be requested for short listed applicants prior to interview and will form

part of the interview process.

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum

criteria for the vacancy/ies.

Online searches will be carried out for all shortlisted candidates