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SENCO (Nursery Setting)

SENCO (Nursery Setting)

The Hundred of Hoo Academy

Hoo, Medway

Salary:
£14,895 per annum + £1,000 additional SENCO rate (£9.93 per hour)
Job type:
Part Time, Permanent
Start date:
As soon as possible
Apply by:
18 August 2022

Job overview

About the role: The Hundred of Hoo Nursery has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, passionate and knowledgeable SENCO to join our full time Day Nursery. We are incredibly proud of our achievements and the environment we offer the children in our care, and our successful candidate will be joining a highly experienced, friendly and encouraging team who will welcome you with open arms! 

Our successful candidate will have previous experience of supporting children with SEN (Special Educational Needs) or disabilities and promoting the equality of opportunity for children in your care. The responsibility of the role of SENCO within The Hundred of Hoo Nursery involves the day-to-day operation of the settings SEN policy and also supporting individual practitioners in implementing the approach for individual children. Our successful candidate will work closely with the Nursery Manager and will regularly review the policy and agree how it will be implemented. ​​​​​​​

We're a nursery like no other and here are just some of the benefits you will receive when working for us;

  • A highly skilled nursery management team who have been with the nursery for over 20 years, utilising their experience in the best way possible
  • We have fantastic facilities, particularly our outdoor spaces which our children thoroughly enjoy making use of
  • Very strong relationships with both the primary and secondary school sites, allowing us to use their facilities and also offer interaction with older students
  • A large pupil intake highlighting our popularity in the local area
  • Opportunities to progress and gain additional qualifications
  • Fantastic support and excellent relationships with the parents of our pupils


This is a permanent opportunity, 30 hours per week and offers an annual salary of £14,895 (£9.93 per hour) plus £1000 additional SENCO rate.​​​​​​​


​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Candidates must hold a full and relevant Level 3 qualification in order to comply with staff:child EYFS ratios. You can check your qualification(s) by visiting the .gov website. Shortlisted candidates will be required to bring evidence of their qualification(s) to their interview. ​​​​​​​


Working with our nursery: At the Hundred of Hoo Nursery we aim to provide a safe and friendly play space where highly qualified practitioners organise our enabling environment to allow children high quality play.

We recognise the importance of working in partnership with parents, our highly effective use of Tapestry for our observation, planning and assessment cycle ensures that parents are engaged with their child’s day immediately and that they have the opportunity to share with us any learning opportunities that happens at home.

Our well-established key person system means that our practitioners are skilled and sensitive in helping children form secure emotional attachments. From these secure bases’ children are encouraged to develop their independence to explore the environment and gain increased confidence in their own abilities.

OFSTED July 2019 – ‘Staff are inspirational role models. Children are extremely polite and their behaviour is impeccable’

We use our amazing outdoor spaces to facilitate a feeling of awe, wonder and fun for our children. We recognise that children embrace the freedom and space that the outdoors gives them in a different way to indoors. Being outside gives us the opportunity to shout, jump, run around, hop and skip and a sensory experience not found inside.


Being part of Leigh Academies Trust: As of 1st September 2021, our Trust comprises 31 geographically organised academies (15 secondaries, 14 primaries and 2 special) educating 20,000 students, and employing over 2,500 talented staff. The Trust is establishing four ‘clusters’ of academies: North West Kent; Central Kent; South East London; Medway. In addition, the Trust is responsible for one of the region’s biggest initial teaching training organisations, a large teaching school hub and is an accredited apprenticeship provider. Click here to view our future plans in our Vision 2030 document

As part of Leigh Academies Trust you will have ample opportunity to collaborate with your peers both within the academy and across the whole Trust. This is an important part of our vision as we know through experience that we perform better when we work together. You are supported to undertake regular self-development to continue your professional development and hopefully progress further within the organisation.

Click here to view the range of benefits available to all LAT staff. ​​​​​​​ 


Our commitment to safeguarding: Leigh Academies Trust and all of our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process across all academies and business units.  All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.  

Our commitment to equality and diversity: As a Trust we are passionate about diversity and recognise that as individuals, we all bring something unique to the role regardless of any protected characteristics which is why we treat all of our people equally, without compromise.  We are committed to providing equality and fairness throughout our recruitment and employment practices and not to discriminate on any grounds.

Based on the quality and quantity of applications received, Leigh Academies Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy sooner than the specified closing date.  Applicants will be notified of this where possible.  Therefore, early applications are encouraged.

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About The Hundred of Hoo Academy

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We are delighted to welcome you to The Hundred of Hoo All Through Academy. The Hundred of Hoo is quickly becoming known as a centre with high expectations, high standards and high achievements. Throughout every part of our Academy we are committed to the learning, development and future opportunities of all our young people, supporting our vision of creating a community that aspires to the highest standards, achieves to the best of our ability, and excels in all that we do.

We as an academy are student centred, so all our efforts, our work and our endeavours revolve around the achievement of each pupil’s academic, social and emotional potential. We appreciate that academic learning is very important, though not the only measure of success, and we believe that all children are entitled to access a world class education. Through innovation and creative thinking, we will work tirelessly to ensure that every child leaves education with all the skills required to lead a productive, successful, and most importantly, a happy adult life.

Principal (Secondary phase): Carl Guerin-Hassett

Principal (Primary phase): Mike Etheridge

Vision and Values

At The Hundred of Hoo Academy, we will combine good manners and etiquette  with 21st Century innovation and creativity to ensure our pupils are more than just educated, they become globally minded citizens who will be empowered to change their own lives and the lives of those around them.

This will be achieved by:

  • Providing an IB influenced learning curriculum that creates; Inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people that act with integrity, and contribute to the local community. They will also help to create a better, more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect, recognising that other people with their differences can also be right.
  • Having staff that aspire to the highest standards, who model and encourage a love of learning within a nurturing environment that supports students to achieve their greatest academic potential and excel in all they do.
  • Fostering a partnership with parents and carers so that they share the same  high aspirations for their child, feel welcomed and valued by the school community, and are able to  provide support in their child’s learning and development

We believe that

  1. All children are entitled to access a world class education
  2. Everyone, regardless of background or starting point, can achieve the highest academic standards
  3. Children should be equipped with values, attitudes and attributes that will serve them well to be lifelong learners.
  4. All members of staff deserve great challenge and support on their journey to becoming masters of their craft.

We believe that children and adults flourish when they learn and work as members of a supportive, cohesive community built on high expectations, rigour, mutual respect and pride in their own and each other’s achievements.

We are a disciplined Academy, where pupils thrive in a culture defined by mutual respect and impeccable behaviour. We unashamedly focus on academic excellence and focus on every child achieving highly in subjects that will serve them well beyond school and into the next stage of their education and into their careers.

All learning experiences offer the opportunity for children to apply their understanding in a global context developing their notion of international mindedness and therefore becoming principled global citizens.

We have an uncompromising culture of no excuses, and we insist on high standards for staff and pupils. We mean this, we follow it and we refer to it every day because we believe in it. Every pupil matters, every pupil can achieve, every lesson counts.

“Our values decide our character; our character decides our value.” – James Kerr

The ethos created within our community are based on the values we promote

ASPIRE
to the very highest standards

ACHIEVE
 to the best of our ability

EXCEL
 in all that we do

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