SEND Co-ordinator
Tewkesbury Academy
Tewkesbury
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- TMS/UPS +TLR1a
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1st September 2018
- Apply by:
- 15 May 2018
Job overview
Tewkesbury school is a popular and successful secondary school with the highest of aspirations for all students. The School supports staff wellbeing and offers a supportive induction programme leading to excellent professional development opportunities.
We are seeking to appoint an outstanding, dynamic, innovative and forward-thinking leader and co-ordinator to join the Team at Tewkesbury School.
The successful candidate will work with the Deputy Headteacher, Pastoral, and take the strategic lead in all SEND matters. The post holder will be responsible for the strategic development of SEND policy and provision in the school.
You will lead and line manage a team of dedicated colleagues. The SENDCO will need a solution focused and proactive approach to ensure that students are supported and advised at key transition points, ensuring outstanding progression and progress for all.
You will be responsible for day-to-day operation of the SEND policy and co-ordination of specific provision to support individual students with SEND and provide professional guidance to colleagues.
You will need to be a team leader and player. You will have the ability to analyse data and information from a variety of sources, using this, your own knowledge and best practice research to promote high quality teaching, learning and support. You will be an enthusiastic classroom practitioner as well as being innovative,creative and resilient. Excellent communication skills are essential as the role will involve close liaison with a wide range of professionals alongside colleagues, parents and students.
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About Tewkesbury Academy
Tewkesbury Academy is an exciting place to learn and work, with a student body of over 1,200 and upwards of 150 colleagues. We serve the distinctive town of Tewkesbury and surrounding villages, with its renowned historical, musical and ecological festivals each year. The sense of community and connectedness is strong at the Academy, as is support from the wider business community, and this is reflected in the plethora of personal development opportunities at the school.
Being ready, respectful and responsible is a key tenet of life at Tewkesbury Academy, where we provide a calm and supportive environment and expect commitment and hard work from students and staff alike to ensure that they feel supported and challenged to produce their best.
Tewkesbury Academy joined the CLF in July 2023 and is the founding school in the Gloucestershire Cluster. Since that time, two sibling schools have joined: Queen Margaret’s Primary Academy in Tewkesbury and Brook Academy in Brockworth. It is an exciting time to join the school as we design the future of the cluster and how we will impact positively beyond our own academy walls.
Tewkesbury Academy’s last inspection was under the predecessor school in Autumn 2022 – published January 2023 – where the Academy was designated to ‘Requires Improvement’. A year later, and there has been rapid improvement in the key areas of SEND, early reading and behaviour. The staff and leadership teams are engaged in a relentless drive for the Academy to regain Good and then move beyond that to be the great school this community deserves.
By joining us, you will be able to seize the chance to make a real difference to the lives of our students and help us to realise our ambition for a great provision. We have a strong ethos and high expectations for every child, and this is reflected in the rigour of the approaches and strategies being used to raise attainment, secure our culture and generate genuine aspiration and ambition amongst our cohort.
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