SEND Manager: SEMH Lead
Christleton High School
Cheshire West and Chester
- Expired
- Salary:
- Grade 8, SCP 23 - SCP 28
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2023
- Apply by:
- 3 October 2022
Job overview
Salary: Grade 8, SCP 23 - SCP 28
(£28,226 - £32,798 full-time equivalent; pro-rata for 39 weeks per year)
Permanent, 37 hours a week – 39 weeks per year (term time, plus 1 week in the school holidays)
To start in January 2023, an exciting opportunity is available for a SEND Manager to join our busy Student Services team at Christleton High School. The post holder will lead the schools additional learning provision for a small group of students who are, at times, unable to access mainstream lessons due to behavioural, emotional or mental health issues.
You should have an understanding of the statutory nature of education welfare work, a good standard of education and excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. You will need to be confident communicating with children, parents, a range of stakeholders and our wider community. Training and mentoring will be provided as part of the induction process.
We are a fabulous team and we all enjoy working together to improve access to education and outcomes for our children. This is an exciting new role offering a varied and challenging key position in a busy and rewarding working environment with access to continuous professional development, as part of a highly functioning team.
This new role has been developed to enhance the excellence of provision already offered in safeguarding, SEND and inclusion within our Student Services department. Applications are invited from prospective candidates who are able to demonstrate that they are able to meet the essential criteria set out in the person specification and who have the vision, values and tenacity to join an amazing team and help continue the journey towards excellence.
Please note, you will also be required to contribute to the whole school’s planning activities and operate at all times within the schools stated policies and practices.
In return, we can offer you the opportunity to join a successful school within a well-established trust. Both the trust and school have a strong inclusive ethos and an inherent drive for quality. We believe that Christleton is a great place to work. Results and facilities are excellent, the students are well motivated and the school is situated in lovely surroundings. We try to live by the maxim “Happy, Hardworking and Caring” and expect that all staff should be a role model for these three characteristics.
An application form and job information pack are available from the vacancies section of our website. https://www.christletonhigh.co.uk/vacancies/support-staff-vacancies.php
You should also include a supporting letter of no more than two sides of A4, explaining why you believe you are the right person for the job.
The deadline for receipt of applications is 9.00am on Monday 3rd October.
Interviews to be held w/c 10th October 2022.
About Christleton High School
- Christleton High School
- Village Road, Christleton, Chester
- Cheshire
- CH3 7AD
- United Kingdom
Christleton High School is a thriving, vibrant Academy with a long tradition of academic excellence and success. The school is situated in the picturesque village of Christleton, approximately 3 miles from the centre of Chester, serving a community of small villages and housing on the east side of the city. Academic standards at the school are very high, frequently the highest in the region, thanks to highly motivated staff, children who wish to learn and parents who support them. Our high standards are maintained by creating a caring climate of trust and mutual support between all who work in the school. Combined with our exceptional extra-curricular provision, all our students, no matter what their strengths and aptitudes, have opportunities that challenge and reward and enable them to be the best they can be.
The school has undergone a number of major refurbishments in the last 5 years to provide excellent facilities for learning, including a new iResearch Centre costing £0.75m and a £3M extensive re-modelling programme of the exterior of the building. It also has a large Leisure Centre, swimming pool and state-of-the-art 4G pitch, which are jointly managed and available for use by students and staff during the day.
The school operates a two-week timetable of 48 x 1hr periods. Every Wednesday afternoon there is systematic and planned staff development programme that is the focal point of our drive to constantly improve the learning experience of our students. We have a teaching staff who are committed, hard-working and dedicated to the success of our students. We expect a high level of professionalism but also a willingness to innovate in order that all our students are engaged in their learning, are challenged, whatever their needs and who make the required progress to fulfil their potential in an environment that is “happy, hardworking and courteous”.
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