Level 7 Specialist Assessor & Teacher for Literacy Related Difficulties

Hours: 3 days per week, term time only (flexibility on working days)

Salary: MPS / UPS to reflect current level and experience, plus SEN1 Allowance, pro rata

Required for: September 2022

Closing Date: 9am Monday 11th July

Interviews: Thursday 14th July, but we reserve the right to interview before the closing date.

For full details please visit our website, or contact Lara Samuels on recruitment@jcoss.barnet.sch.uk

This Role:  We need a Specialist Teacher Assessor to lead our work in the area of identifying SEND and, together with the SENCo team, make recommendations of provision to meet need.  In addition, they will provide specialist teaching to individual and small groups of SEND students, most but not all of whom have EHCPs.  Particular areas of need include dyslexia or significant literacy and language difficulties.  They will need detailed knowledge of established, recognised literacy interventions to support phonics, reading, spelling and handwriting. 

The successful candidate will join a busy, large and high-profile Learning Support Faculty within the school: a team of SENCo, Deputy and Assistant SENCos work under the overall supervision of our Director of Inclusion (also responsible for our separate autism provision), with significant numbers of LSAs and administrative support.  

We currently screen all students in Year 9 using Lucid, as well as managing specific requests for assessment, many of which are in relation to Access Arrangements (there is full administrative support for this aspect of the work).  The caseload is substantial in our context, and we also operate pre- and post-intervention assessments in collaboration with subject specialists in the school.  

We need someone with expertise in the field, a knowledge of JCQ and Ofqual Regulations and Guidance, and confident in making decisions.  They will be proactive and flexible, skilled in and committed to the progress and inclusion of SEND students, and able to communicate with colleagues, parents and students.   

Our Vision: JCoSS is an academic, aspirational learning community, known and respected for our pioneering spirit, our humanity and our excellent outcomes.

Our Ethos: If you think you know what working in a Jewish school might be like, be ready to think again.  Our outward-looking and pluralist Jewish ethos combines an embrace of open-minded values with a deep love of the varied riches of Jewish tradition.  The staff and leadership team includes different faiths and none at all levels, and the school has a culture of purposeful good humour and humanity. We are a school like no other.

Our Results: We have a track record of outstanding academic results and our 2019 outcomes earned us the title of Sunday Times Greater London State Secondary of the Year 2020.  44% of A level grades were at A*or A, a quarter of the cohort scored at least two A grades, while 70% of Level 3 vocational grades were at Distinction or better.  In 2019 and the two years since, half of GCSE grades were at 7 or higher, a third of students achieving at least 8 GCSEs at grade 7 or better.  Our ALPS grade has been consistently 2 at both A level and GCSE, and our 2019 ‘Progress 8’ score was 0.68. Nine students gained places at Oxbridge in 2021, and (as is typical) students secured places for Medicine, Art, Architecture & Media and other competitive courses at prestigious institutions.

Staff Benefits: We appoint on potential as well as experience, and we are committed to supporting staff development.  Several non-teaching colleagues have trained with us as teachers; our rich CPL programme includes full induction for new teaching staff including NQTs, NPQH/SL/ML programmes, and financial support for MA courses, Action Research projects and many other opportunities.  Additional responsibilities are always considered for suitable candidates and we offer NQTs employment for the last few weeks of the summer term.  Our admissions policy includes priority places for the children of all staff*. Our website details a huge number and variety of staff wellbeing initiatives. https://jcoss.org/recruitment/staff-wellbeing-at-jcoss

* (Children, Jewish and non-Jewish, of JCoSS staff who have a permanent contract of employment and have completed two years of service on the last day of the summer term of the academic year prior to application)

Our Location & Community: The school is in beautiful new £50m buildings overlooking the Green Belt.  It is easily accessible from Northern, Piccadilly and Overground rail links, public buses run past the entrance and a school coach service (available to staff) serves our whole catchment area.  We attract students from eloquent and supportive communities across North London and Hertfordshire. We have approval for an additional building, allowing us to expand our intake to 217 per cohort, in response to significant long-term over-subscription. We expect to start building this academic year.

JCoSS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all its staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  All posts are subject to satisfactory enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) clearance.

For information, including an application pack, please click 'quick apply' or email Lara Samuels on recruitment@jcoss.barnet.sch.uk  or call our 020 8344 2220.

Shortlisted candidates will be notified by email and only shortlisted candidates may receive feedback.