SEND PA and Administrator
St Luke's Church of England School
Devon
- Expired
- Salary:
- Grade D – Actual Salary £20 120
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 1 November 2023
Job overview
Job Title: SEND PA and Administrator
Salary Grade D
Hours: Full time 38hrs / 39 weeks
Location: St Luke’s Church of England School
This is an exciting opportunity for a hardworking and passionate PA/Administrator to join our SEND team. The work of the SEND team is integral to this and also to ensuring that we reflect our values of working hard to achieve our best, being inclusive, giving hope, taking responsibility, and showing respect.
The SEND department at St Luke’s consists of teaching assistants with a range of experience specialisms. The department has the use of the learning Support and sensory room.
We are a cohesive and supportive team with a strong drive towards narrowing the academic gap for our SEND students. Working across the Ted Wragg Multi Academy Trust, we develop and deliver a number of specific interventions across KS3 and KS4.
The SEND department also plays an active role in whole-school activities delivering a Homework Club, Break and Lunchtime Club, and Breakfast Club along with other engagement and enrichment activities. As well as mentoring, we also deliver specific interventions, such as: additional numeracy, literacy, social skills, Lego therapy, ASD support, and life skills.
All of the sessions are tailored to individual students’ needs and aim to support them throughout their school journey to become more successful learners and well-rounded individuals who are prepared for life after school. We have procedures in place to monitor the impact of these sessions, and we regularly use student voice to inform our planning.
Communication within the SEND team, between St Luke’s whole school staff and with parents/carers is a vital part of our day-to-day work, and it is important that everyone in our team understands the importance of clear, supportive and helpful communication. We also appreciate that SEND can add a layer of additional complexity to attending secondary school, so we strive to be as inclusive and supportive as possible towards students and parents/carers. We work closely with the Pastoral and Inclusion Team to enable this.
Staff within the SEND team work tirelessly to enable pupils achieve the best progress possible during their time at St Luke’s. We are looking to appoint somebody who will strive to do their very best for every student in our school as part of our team.
Our current SEND PA/Administrator had this to say about her time in this role:
“During my time as a SEND PA, I've cherished the engaging and multifaceted nature of this role. It has been a platform for me to apply my strong organisational skills effectively. This position has afforded me the opportunity to work both independently and collaboratively, closely partnering with the SENDCo, departmental colleagues, and the wider school community. I've particularly enjoyed fostering positive relationships with the immediate family members of EHCP students through consistent communication, while also enhancing my knowledge in the field of SEN.”
Key Purpose of Job:
To provide efficient, effective and professional administrative support within the SEND department. To work alongside the Assistant Headteacher (SENDCO) and Head of Learning Support.
Full details and an application form can be downloaded here:
https://stlukescofe.school/recruitment/
Completed applications should be submitted to: office@stlukescofe.school
Closing date: Midday, 1st November 2023
Interview date: 7th November 2023
The Ted Wragg Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and operate in accordance with the Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. All appointments will be subject to a number of safeguarding checks including an enhanced DBS check.
We are part of the Ted Wragg Trust, an ambitious and inclusive trust of schools strengthening our communities through excellent education.
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About St Luke's Church of England School
St Luke’s is a voluntary controlled Church of England School and part of the rapidly growing Ted Wragg Multi-Academy Trust.
St Luke’s is a wonderful place to work and is full of staff who are dedicated to improving the life chances of every student that attends the school. We work closely with other schools in the Ted Wragg Multi Academy Trust and are part of a wider family who all believe passionately in high quality education for all. We offer our staff disruption free classrooms, weekly coaching, in-house career progression, wider MAT leadership development opportunities and a high quality staff wellbeing programme.
Our vision is to ensure that our community, both staff and students live ‘life to the full’ with this being underpinned by our five core values:
• Taking responsibility
• Being inclusive
• Showing respect
• Giving hope
• Achieving your best
St Luke’s is a school that has the very highest expectations of, and for, our students. We enable each and every one of them to become ‘good stewards’ of their own lives and of the world around them by taking personal responsibility for themselves, their learning and their environment. All of our community treat one and another with dignity and respect and we are incredibly proud of our Christian ethos.
Our staff are an incredibly committed team who have a very clear goal: ‘to enable every child at St Luke’s to have the best educational experience possible, full of enriching opportunities and the right balance of support and challenge so that they achieve their very best'. We aim to enable every child to make a positive next step in their education, training and future employment so that they are fully prepared to live ‘life to the full’. We do this by ensuring that we deliver excellent teaching in every classroom day in, day out and by providing an academically challenging curriculum that is personalised for every child and promotes high aspirations and achievement. Underpinning this is a business and administrative team that is efficient and effective and provides a comprehensive level of support to enable us to get the very best out of every single student and every single member of staff.
St Luke’s is a really exciting place to work as it is a school that is driven by a desire to improve and to be the best that it can be. Our school improvement journey in the last two years has been substantial; the impact can be seen in our outcomes, student voice, parental voice and our high levels of staff retention. But we are not a school that rests on its laurels; we are a school that is driven by very high standards and a need to ensure that all improvements are consistently embedded across the whole school to ensure that they have maximum and long term impact. We have seen many successes in the last two years but we are always looking to improve further.
This is particularly true in the classroom where we focus a great deal of our work. All staff follow the St Luke’s Lesson Framework, which is based on the work of Doug Lemov and Barack Rosenshine, and all staff receive 1-1 coaching once a week to help them embed the framework because, in the words of Dylan Williams, ‘every teacher needs to improve, not because they are not good enough, but because they can be even better'.
We are looking for staff who want to join a school at a very exciting time in its improvement journey. Staff who want to help us to make a difference to the lives of our children through a relentless desire to strive for excellence in all that we do.
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