SENCo

Job Description

Job Title: SENCO

Location: Queen’s Park Federation Nursery Schools

Hours of work: Full Time

Reports to: Headship Team

Purpose of the Role:

● To promote and adhere to the Federation’s values.

·        To work alongside the headship team in developing structures and inclusive provision that means that all children can access the curriculum.

● The SENCO will teach classes to model good SEND practice, develop relationships, support training and development and ensure ‘quality first teaching’ is embedded across the federation.

● The SENCO will take lead responsibility for ensuring the best possible curriculum offer, provision, well-being, progress and achievement for SEND children through careful monitoring and holding staff to account for the progress their SEND pupils make.

● The SENCO will be a model professional, setting an excellent example to all staff. He/she will work in close partnership with the Leadership Team in actively promoting enrichment, entitlement and achievement through building effective working relationships with stakeholders. He/she will work with the Leadership Team to ensure that the school offers a high quality, engaging and well -matched curriculum for SEND children.

Responsibilities:

● Support senior leaders in the effective day-to-day management of the school and school community, with specific responsibility for SEND provision across the school. This may include recruiting and inducting staff, leading assemblies and staff meetings and responding to the views, needs and requests of children, staff, parents, governors and visitors.

● Work with the Leadership Team, staff and governors in the development, implementation and review of school improvement plans, including regular monitoring and evaluation of standards and quality of SEND provision.

● Work with the Senior Leaders in the school’s achievement reviews and target setting processes by taking a major role in assessment of SEND children and actively supporting and securing the school's success in national tests.

● Take a leading role in the leadership team by having special responsibility for ensuring that the school structures and provision meets the needs of all SEND children.

·   Support the induction and deployment of new staff, voluntary help, work experience students, trainee teachers/ students and parents/ carers working in classrooms and throughout the school.

·    Work as part of the leadership team in setting, nurturing, promoting and maintaining a very high standard of behaviour and mutual respect throughout the school, ensuring that all staff play an active role in the pursuit of these standards.

Strategic Direction and Development of SEN Provision in the school (with the support of, and under the direction of the Executive Head and Leadership Team):

● Exercise a key role in assisting the Executive Head and Governors across the Federation with the strategic development of SEND policy/provision.

● Support all staff in understanding the needs of SEND pupils and ensure the objectives to develop SEN are reflected in the Federations Improvement Plan.

● Monitor progress of objectives and targets for pupils with SEND from teachers’ plans, evaluate the effectiveness of teaching and learning by work analysis and use these analyses to guide future improvements.

● Analyse and interpret relevant school, local and national data and advise the Executive Headteacher on the level of resources required to maximise achievement for SEND children.

● Liaise with staff, parents, external agencies and other schools to coordinate their contribution, provide maximum support and ensure continuity of provision for SEND pupils.

Leading a Department:

● Ensure effective delegation of responsibilities within the SEND departments in allocated schools.

● Organise and chair regular team meetings and send minutes of all meetings to the Line Manager.

● Manage a departmental budget and contribute to management of whole school funding for SEN/D, alongside the Line Manager.

● Produce a teaching and intervention timetable for members of the department.

● To manage workload effectively: own and others.

Operational/ Strategic Planning:

● Consistency of SEND curriculum documentation and delivery.

● Audit all curriculum areas to ensure their curriculum intent, implementation and impact support various aspects of the Federation SEND vision.

Federation Duties:

● To take reasonable care of SEND resources and to account for any equipment used.

● To attend meetings (if required) and assist in planning and evaluation.

● To liaise with the line manager.

● To teach as directed by the Executive Headteacher.

Teaching:

● Determine, organise and implement a diverse, flexible curriculum and implement an effective assessment framework for SEND children.

● Ensure that learning is at the centre of strategic planning and resource management and lead and support the teaching and learning of SEND children within their phases.

● Provide and promote models of excellent classroom SEND practice through whole class and group teaching, coaching, mentoring and supported self-evaluation for teaching and learning staff.

● Establish creative, responsive and effective approaches to teaching and learning and ensure a culture and ethos of challenge and support where all pupils can have a voice, achieve success and become highly engaged in their own learning.

● Design, develop and implement systems for the collection of useful, timely, and accurate assessment data to track the progress of individual and groups of children in order to inform planning, evaluate performance, track progress and secure raised achievement across the key stages they lead. This will include agreeing and articulating high expectations and setting aspirational targets.

● Monitor the effectiveness of teaching and learning including teachers’ SEND planning, monitoring, book looks and triangulations. This is clearly communicated with staff.

Shortlisting: Tuesday 18th April at 4pm

Interviews: Friday 21st April