SENCO
Humberston Academy
North East Lincolnshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- 22,467 - 38,250
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 23 February 2017
Job overview
The David Ross Education Trust is now recruiting for a SENCO to start as soon as possible. If you are an experienced SENCO, this role at Humberston Academy could be the ideal next step in your career.
About the role
• To provide strategic leadership of the provision for students with special educational needs (SEN) across the school in order to ensure that these students make excellent progress
• To lead, manage and effectively deploy staff and resources within the SEN provision
• To lead, monitor and evaluate the development of learning and teaching strategies for students with SEN
• To ensure that staff are provided with relevant information and training relating to the support of these students
• To lead on raising standards of student attainment and achievement with SEND students in all year groups and ability profiles
• To ensure that paperwork relating to students with SEN meets statutory requirements
• To maintain appropriate relationships with parents of students with SEN and with relevant external organisations
• To take a full role within the school community as a Senior Middle leader
• Act within the statutory frameworks, which set out their professional duties and responsibilities and in line with the duties outlined in the current School Teachers Pay and Conditions Document and Teacher Standards (2012).
• Take responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people within the school.
Salary & Benefits
• MPS 1 – 9 (£22,467 - £38,250) dependent on experience plus SENA of £4,116
• Access to Teachers/Local Government Pension Scheme.
Who we are looking for
• Qualified teacher status
• Evidence of sustained participation in INSET/CPD
• Demonstrable evidence of high standards of class teaching
• Experience of co-ordinating and developing staff
• Experience of managing teaching resources and a curriculum budget
• Practical understanding of effective teaching and evaluation strategies
• OFSTED awareness
• Awareness of current developments in Education and the implications of these
• Understanding of Health and Safety issues
• Understanding of effective assessment and target setting procedures
• Understanding of inclusion and personalised learning
• Requirements for an effective inclusion statutory
• Developing differentiated schemes of learning
• Knowledge of effective target setting strategies
• Effective strategies for supporting staff to improve teaching and learnin
• Safeguarding
About The David Ross Education Trust
The David Ross Education Trust (DRET) has grown to a network of 33 academies, incorporating primary, secondary and grammar, and special schools. We employ over 2000 people with the primary focus of raising the standards of education for 13,000 young people. Whatever your role, you should know you are contributing to achieving our vision of inspiring the next generation of young people to be the best they can in whatever they choose. Our aim is to be the country’s leading academy chain, committed to delivering the highest educational standards alongside an unrivalled package of sporting and cultural enrichment, including events such as the DRET Spring, Summer and Winter Cups, Music Cup, volunteering trips abroad, and regular trips/visits throughout the year. We are incredibly lucky to be able to work alongside outstanding organisations and individuals who are happy to share their expertise and skills in supporting the David Ross Foundation's vision to give children better life chances through access to the best education and support we can give them. While each academy is unique, we share common goals, aspirations, values and methods that enable us to work collaboratively and collectively to achieve our mission. We operate regional hubs, whereby academies work with other schools who are part of the Trust so we can share skills and knowledge, allowing them to benefit and learn from each other. We offer high quality programmes for CPD and Leadership Development delivered through our Teaching School Alliance to support our practitioners to deliver high quality teaching and learning across our academies.
Our Academy
Humberston is an 11-16 Academy with capacity for 750 students. The Academy specializes in Maths and Computing and the ability of students on entry is slightly above the national average. Over the past 3 years the Academy has seen a significant increase in performance in GCSE results year on year and is one of the highest performing Academies in the Authority. Humberston Academy joined the Trust in 2011. The last Oftsed reports say that; "Students make an outstanding contribution to their community.
Apply now
To apply for the position, please submit your CV and covering letter to jobs@dret.co.uk by 22nd February 2017
Attached documents
About Humberston Academy
- Humberston Academy
- Humberston Avenue, Humberston, Grimsby
- North East Lincolnshire
- DN36 4TF
- United Kingdom
At Humberston Academy we are proud to be a leading education provider in our local community. We seek to broaden the horizons of each and every one of our students, helping them to achieve at the highest level both academically and within their talents outside the classroom, upholding our vision of Excellence for All.
We understand that every student needs a strong academic foundation in order to achieve their full potential. At our Academy we combine an innovative curriculum with a strong house structure, which ensures that students receive all the support and guidance they need to succeed.
At Humberston the values of respect and good behaviour are instilled from the outset and high attendance is a priority. Ensuring that students leave the Academy as young people that the whole community can be proud of, is a crucial part of our educational offer.
Over the last few years Humberston Academy has continued to strengthen and develop but we do not rest on our previous successes. We are proud of the significant investment that has been made in our buildings and environment and the impact that this is having on our students.
The Academy, a member of the David Ross Education Trust, became the first in North East Lincolnshire to be designated “outstanding” under Ofsted’s stricter guidelines.
Our focus is on first class teaching and recruiting outstanding practitioners. Quality teachers are the people who inspire our students to great things.
Another year of excellent results 2018.
A total of 84% of students at Humberston Academy achieved 4 to 9 in GCSE Maths this summer. In English, the figure was 88%. 82% of students achieved above grade 4 in the combine Maths and English measure. These results once again confirms our place among the top-performing schools in the area.
We are an outstanding Academy and proud of our exceptionally high standards. But it is not all about academic achievement. We are a growing oversubscribed, hard-working Academy, with a positive, business-like and purposeful atmosphere where students can develop and broaden their horizons.
Humberston also offers:
- Outstanding behaviour
- An ethos of mutual respect and love of learning
- Outstanding teaching and learning
- A small, caring environment
- Every student is treated as individual
- Broadening horizons by being part of the David Ross Education Trust, which provides the students with exceptional sporting and cultural opportunities.
Please note that you are wholly responsible for fact checking in respect of the information provided by schools. Please also check for the latest visa and work permit requirements that may apply. Tes is not responsible for the content of advertisements or the policies adopted by advertising schools. Tes asks that all schools follow Tes' Fair Recruitment Policy.