SEND Admin Officer
MEA Central
Manchester
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- NJC Scale Point: Grade 4, SCP 7 - 11.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- as soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 2 February 2022
Job overview
We currently have a fantastic role available for a full time, Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Admin Officer.
The role is full time 35 hours per week, term-time only, plus five additional training days. The post is a Grade 4, and the starting pro-rata salary is £17,224. The full time equivalent is £20,092.
You will play a key, multi-faceted role ensuring that the administration of the SEND team runs smoothly. A flexible team player is required, who can adjust to the demands of the academic year.
This role demands excellent judgement, initiative, and problem solving skills. You will have a clear focus on high quality and be able to manage a complex workload with conflicting demands. Outstanding communication skills and high level IT skills are a prerequisite.
Experience in a similar role, in a fast-paced environment is essential, ideally within the educational sector.
MEA Central, a Prospere Learning Trust school, opened with 210 Year 7 students on September 2017; we now have a full compliment of 1000+ students across all year groups. Through high academic aspirations, an impressive culture and wide ranging extra-curricular opportunities, we develop students into articulate, active and respectful citizens, ready to go out and do good in the world.
Our vision of a fantastic future for all our students is easy to understand but complex to achieve as the future evolves so rapidly around us. Our students have to adapt in order to build themselves a secure and resilient future. Our vision underpins all we do, and our starting point is excellent academic results.
Our school is proud to be part of the Prospere Learning Trust. Prospere Learning Trust was formed in September 2017 through the merger of two multi academy trusts. We currently employ over 900 staff and are passionate about providing exceptional education for children from any background so that they become happy, confident adults with excellent academic knowledge and qualifications. We believe that our staff play a vital role in achieving our vision. Great schools thrive because of the great people in them.
Application procedure:
Please note we do not accept CVs; applications will only be accepted on the TES application form and references will be applied for at the shortlisting stage.
The closing date for this role is Wednesday 2 February 2022. Interviews are scheduled for the week beginning 7 February 2022.
All schools within the Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
All applicants must be permitted to work in the UK and hold a relevant work permit where necessary. This is not a role in which the Trust sponsors a visa application. If you have lived or worked outside of the UK in the last 5 years, the Trust will also require additional information in order to comply with safer recruitment requirements. Any job offer will be conditional on the satisfactory completion of the necessary pre-employment checks including receipt of satisfactory references.
We are an Equal Opportunities Employer and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
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About MEA Central
MEA Central is a thriving 11-16 mixed secondary serving South Manchester, defined by our mission, ‘A fantastic future for all.' We work tirelessly to remove any barriers that might prevent our young people from achieving their potential and living successful, happy lives. Our culture combines high expectations, warmth and encouragement with a focus on excellent academic outcomes to create informed citizens who will go out into the world and do what is right. Our values of Citizenship, Achievement and Participation and our belief in the power of language and the importance of the spoken word will develop confident young adults with a strong sense of social responsibility.
We deliver a challenging, knowledge-rich curriculum to prepare students not only for the GCSE assessment regime but also further education and life beyond. We expect our students to meet our high expectations in terms of commitment and work ethic, but we also seek to ignite their intellectual passions and curiosities so that they become autonomous, fulfilled learners during their time with us.
There is so much more to MEA Central than what happens inside our classrooms, however! Our scholars benefit from a level of pastoral care and attention second to none, and our co-curriculum, which includes our extensive extra-curricular programme, ensures every child can gain valuable cultural capital and experience success in areas such as sport, music, drama and community activities.
We are making a difference. In 2022, we were:
- Top 7% of schools in the country for progress
- Top 2% of schools in the country for progress of disadvantaged students
- Only three school in the country have a smaller gap between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged students.
MEA Central was graded as 'Good' by Ofsted following the 2022 inspection.
"Pupils at Manchester Enterprise Academy Central are incredibly proud and happy to be a part of a diverse and respectful community. Everyone can be themselves. Pupils are considerate of one another. They do their best to model the school's core values. They strive to work hard, be kind and take part" Ofsted 2022.
You are welcome you to get in touch if there is anything more you would like to know about us. We look forward to seeing you here soon!
Prospere Learning Trust
MEA Central is proud to be part of the Prospere Learning Trust, which believes in working collaboratively to ensure the best outcomes and life chances for students. The Trust currently comprises of 8 schools, including 4 mainstream high schools and 4 special needs schools (both primary and secondary) with further schools anticipated across Greater Manchester. Find out more about Prospere Learning Trust in the candidate brochure.
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