SENCo

Operational SENCo (4 days-per-week)

Location: Aurora White House School, Quidenham, Norwich, NR16 2NZ

Salary: £25,320 - £36,516 (M1 – UPS1) + £2,750 per year Lead allowance for English Lead for the right candidate.

Hours: 32 hours per week

Start Date: September 2025 (or as close to)

Aurora White House School

We’re currently looking for a part-time SENCO to join our all-through special school.

Part of the Aurora Group, Aurora White House School in Quidenham, Norwich provides day placements for children aged 5 to 16 years old, primarily with communication and interaction difficulties or specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia. Some may be on the autistic spectrum or have anxieties and difficulties that create barriers to learning. All of whom are delightful, many coming with significant amounts of additional clinical support from our own therapy team. There is a full clinical team onsite to support at all times and you will have the support of an experienced and stable SLT.

The successful candidate will divide their time between some cover for other teaching colleagues but substantially working with the SENCo team to support teaching and learning across the school and lead on school based interventions, including delivering and supporting interventions arising from our annual review work and teacher assessments.

We work in a rich multi-disciplinary environment and some experience of working with a range of additional professionals, including clinicians would be helpful, although not essential.

Our approach to curriculum development and delivery is robust and built upon the strong foundations of well-developed relationships with the children, along with the golden threads of:

• Identity & Relationships, Communication & Interaction, Health & Wellbeing, and Society & the Wider World.
• We base our curriculum on a strong primary foundation, with the principles of early years education weaving through, including a playful approach to living and learning in our school.

To take a virtual look around the schools please click here: White House Virtual Tour

Key Responsibilities: 

• The role would require you to have a small teaching commitment, covering colleagues.
• Take on the responsibilities of other SENCo colleagues, occasionally conducting reviews as agreed and appropriate in their absence
• Lead on school based interventions arriving from SENCo work (directing and coaching staff)
• Directly carry out interventions, teaching support and assessments following on from actions arriving from annual review meetings and described provision within EHCP’s
• Support teachers and class teams to ensure that assessments and evidence of progress towards EHCP outcomes are recorded on Earwig and inform future planning and provision.
• Work closely with clinical colleagues in pursuit of the best possible outcomes for children.
• Ideally be responsible for the English curriculum and progress and assessment of children within it, including implementing our phonic intervention Read, Write, Inc. If the ideal candidate for the substantive Operational SENCo part of the role wasn’t able to offer English subject leadership, we might be interested in removing this part of the job scope.
• Carry out the professional duties of a teacher as required, liaising with teachers where you cover their absence.

Please note that duties will vary and you will be expected to contribute to the overall aims of White House School when required, Please see the link below for our full job description:

Job Description - SENCO

Skills and Qualifications

Qualifications and training

• Degree
• Qualified teacher status

Experience

• Successful experience of curriculum leadership
• Successful teaching experience, ideally in a special school setting or with children with SEND in a mainstream environment.
• Successful experience in implementing interventions that remove barriers to learning and support the progress of children.
• Effective management of resources, including people
• You must have experience of implementing Read, Write, Inc. or a similar whole school phonic programme i.e. embracing synthetic phonics.

Due to the rural location of the school, candidates are strongly advised to hold a full UK driving licence and have access to their own vehicle.

Benefits and Additional Information

Be part of our successful team and also benefit from a generous package that includes:

• Life assurance
• Competitive Pension Scheme
• Perkbox - offering high street discounts.
• Employee assistance programme
• Car lease scheme
• Fully funded training and qualifications
• Bike to work scheme.
• Family Swim
• Free lunch when working
• Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.

How to apply:

Please complete an online application form in full, remembering to include all employment and education details. If you need any assistance or would like any more information, please contact Liz in the Aurora Group Recruitment Team at liz.hudson@theauroragroup.co.uk

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.