SENDco
LeAF Studio School
Bournemouth
- £50,807 - £54,816 per year
- Salary:
- AAT Leadership Scale: L4-L7
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1st September 2024
- Apply by:
- 2 July 2024
Job overview
We are pleased to announce that we are looking for a SENDCO to join the Leaf Studio Leadership team, in Bournemouth. As SENDCO, you will be responsible for providing strategic leadership, guidance, and support to ensure that our students with special needs receive the best possible education. You will be an experienced SENDCO and have a passion for inclusive education, excellent communication skills, and a strong understanding of SEND policies and procedures.
This is a great time to join the team at Leaf Studio, as we go through a period of exciting curriculum change, designed to give our pupils a more focused studio school offering.
What We have to Offer:
- A visible and approachable senior leadership team and an enthusiastic and committed team of teachers and support staff.
- A strong support network both within the school and across Ambitions Academies Trust.
- All staff are part of a professional learning community in which evidence-informed CPD is designed to meet individual needs.
- Strong potential for career progression.
- A culture that respects work-life balance and an ongoing commitment to wellbeing with a dedicated Wellbeing Champion.
- An Employee Assistance Programme including in the moment support and counselling sessions with an external provider.
- AAT Staff benefits include free eye testing for DSE users through Specsavers, free will writing through Dunham McCarthy Solicitors and reduced price corporate gym membership through BH Live.
- A competitive pension through Teachers’ Pensions or The Local Government Pension Scheme for support staff.
Should you wish to arrange a visit or an informal discussion regarding the role, please contact the school principal, at nadine.lapskas@leafstudio.co.uk .
Ambitions Academies Trust (AAT) comprises schools from all sectors: mainstream (primary and secondary) and special. AAT secures outstanding achievement and improved life chances of all our pupils. All our Academies have high expectations as the focus of their work. We are strongly committed to supporting colleagues in developing their careers further and offering excellent CPD opportunities
Please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment as AAT reserves the right to close applications early.
Please note we DO NOT accept applications by CV and are unable to offer Visa Sponsorship.
Ambitions Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Rigorous checks will be made of the successful applicant’s background credentials, including enhanced DBS checks and an online search
High Expectations lead to High Achievers
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About LeAF Studio School
- LeAF Studio School
- Holloway Avenue, Bournemouth
- Dorset
- BH11 9JW
- United Kingdom
Opened in September 2012 and moved into our modern and versatile building in September 2013. LeAF Studio is home to Performing Arts and Sport specialism programmes with a PAN of 500. LeAF Studio joined Ambitions Academies Trust in September 2017.We are recognised by Ofsted as a GOOD school.
Based in Bournemouth we provide a bespoke education for 13–19-year-olds, combining core curriculum with vocational studies.
Mission statement:
Our aim is for every learner to be able to move seamlessly from LeAF Studio into employment, professional performance, or university, equipped with the necessary skills, knowledge and understanding to purposefully engage in all of the challenges and opportunities they will experience.
Students will graduate from the LeAF Studio with:
· Good academic qualifications.
· Vocationally specific learning.
· Relevant sector specific skills and experience in an industry of individual interest.
· Confidence to apply their learning in a workplace setting.
· Ambition to be successful in their chosen career field.
· Clear direct on how to fulfil their career ambitions.
Our LeAF mantra is Perform to Your Potential
LeAF Studio recognises that children and young people have a fundamental right to be protected from harm or exploitation and that, unless they feel secure, children cannot learn effectively. LeAF Studio ensures it provides a school environment which promotes self-confidence, a feeling of worth and the knowledge that students’ concerns, no matter how expressed, will be listened to and acted upon.
LeAF Studio actively promotes British Values where the values of democracy, the law, individual liberty, mutual respect, and tolerance for others supports the student’s development into well-rounded adults.
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