Sendco
Lawnswood School
West Park, Leeds
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- L7 - L10 (£46,463 - 49,937)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2020
- Apply by:
- 30 September 2019
Job overview
Lawnswood School is a thriving school with strong leadership and a dedicated and supportive team of staff. We are looking for someone with enthusiasm, a ‘can do’ mentality, and the drive and determination to ensure that the students with whom you work make the very best of the opportunities available to them. Lawnswood School can offer you a professional challenge and a rewarding opportunity, working with a collaborative leadership team that’s passionate about the progress and development of every student.
In order to accelerate outcomes and continue to embrace our diverse learning community we are currently seeking to appoint a dedicated SENDCO who is passionate about ensuring pupils with SEND achieve their full potential. You will already be an outstanding teacher within your specialism and your knowledge of SEND (and in particular the code of practice) will help play a key part in ensuring all students make excellent progress.
This is an exciting opportunity for an individual to join a school where all staff are valued to contribute their ideas in order to further bring about sustainable and transformational improvements.
We actively welcome applications from existing SENDCOs, or those in the process of completing the SENDCO qualification, looking to further develop your career, becoming part of the Extended Senior Leadership Team. The SEND and inclusion agenda forms a significant part of our thinking at Lawnswood as we continue on our journey to becoming an outstanding school within our community.
You will be an outstanding and dynamic teacher with high expectations and looking to further develop your career within your field, able to encourage and enthuse students to achieve their full potential and inspirational to colleagues and students – sharing best practice.
We can offer a school and senior leadership team that will allow you to be innovative, proactive and play an active part in our school improvement, tailored CPD with a strong commitment on developing individual career paths and opportunity to work as part of strong team dedicated to inclusion.
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
We promote diversity and want a workforce which reflects the population of Leeds.
For further information, please download the job description and person specification and send your completed application with a covering letter (no more than two sides of A4) to Mrs J Bell, Headteacher by email to our HR Administrator on admin.hr@elawnswood.co.uk or by post to Lawnswood School, Ring Road, West Park, Leeds LS16 5AG.
Closing date: Monday 30 September at 9.00am
Attached documents
About Lawnswood School
Lawnswood School is a mixed, non-denominational community secondary school and sixth form for pupils aed 11-18. It is located in West Park, Leeds, West Yorkshire.
The school, founded in its current form in 1972, has capacity for up to about 1,500 pupils. Its predecessor schools were the Leeds Modern School, a boys' grammar school, and Lawnswood High School for Girls.
Headteacher
Jo Bell
Values and vision
Lawnswood School aims to create an inspirational community of learning, where its ambitions for academic attainment with an emphasis on students' moral, social, personal, and spiritual needs are combined.
The school wants its students to become caring, committed, self-aware and confident members of society. It aims to ensure all students are treated as individuals and are able to excel.
Lawnswood aims to ensure its students are equipped with the necessary knowledge, skills and confidence to undertake the next stage of their career, and hopes to foster leadership and engagement to encourage pupils to make a positive contribution to their school and community.
Ofsted
“The ambition and total commitment of the headteacher has raised the expectations of students and staff. This has resulted in significant improvements in the quality of teaching so that the school and inspectors judge more than three-quarters of teaching is now good or better.”
“Students’ achievement is now good overall, especially in the sixth form, where students make strong progress from relatively low starting points and achieve above the national average. All aspects of provision in the sixth form are at least good and some are outstanding.”
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