Special Educational Needs Co-Ordinator (SENCO)
The Mountbatten School
Hampshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Main Pay Range (£25714 to £36961) or Upper Pay Range ( £38690 to £41604) +TLR1a (£8,291)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January or April 2022
- Apply by:
- 2 December 2021
Job overview
We are seeking a SENCO to lead and manage our very dedicated Learning Support team in their very attractive, purpose-built Student Services accommodation. We want this vital provision to become a centre of excellence for innovative teaching, learning, and extra-curricular enrichment.
The Mountbatten School Learning Support team is committed to helping all students become happy, confident, curious and knowledgeable learners. The work we do is bespoke to the requirements of individuals and designed to maximise personal and academic success.
Our students are a joy to work with and make teaching at The Mountbatten School a pleasurable and rewarding experience.
If appointed, you would join a large team of professionals who continually strive for excellence and improve their practice through professional dialogue, evidence-based pedagogy and a range of CPD opportunities.
You will be required to teach Lower and Upper school students and have excellent inter-personal skills. We are looking for an outstanding classroom practitioner with significant management experience who is ambitious and passionate about playing a central role in driving up standards.
Working under the direction and leadership of the Deputy Headteacher (Student Services), you will be instrumental in shaping the future of the Learning Support department.
For further details and to apply, please visit: www.mountbatten.hants.sch.uk email: human.resources@mountbatten.hants.sch.uk or call 01794 510227.
Closing date: Thursday, 2 December 2021.
Interview date: Wednesday, 8 December 2021.
CVs will not be accepted.
The Mountbatten School is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and all staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment. All our recruitment and selection practices reflect this and successful applicants are subject to Disclosure and Barring Service Checks along with other relevant employment checks.
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About The Mountbatten School
The school is situated in Romsey, a very pleasant abbey town in the southern Test Valley. Opened in 1969 and built on land formerly in the ownership of Earl Mountbatten's Broadlands Estate, the school enjoyed the patronage of Lord Louis until his assassination. We are honoured that his great granddaughter, The Lady Alexandra Knatchbull, is our current patron.
The school is one of the largest and most successful co-educational comprehensives in Hampshire. Our intake is 300, and there are currently 1466 students on roll.
The school serves a predominantly rural catchment area extending from the boundary of Southampton to the boundary of Wiltshire. We are the larger of two secondary schools in the town. The school is very popular and heavily oversubscribed.
The school is a Single Academy Trust. Andrew Portas, the school’s Headmaster, has been in post since September 2022 and was formerly the Senior Deputy appointed in September 2010. The school is organised into eight faculties with approximately 80 FTE teaching staff, and the pastoral structure is based on five year groups.
The school is fortunate to have extensive grounds as it was built on land that was formerly part of Lord Mountbatten’s Broadlands Estate. Since the school became an academy on 1 April 2011, there has been an extensive refurbishment programme over many years. As a result, all departments are very well-resourced and accommodated.
The school is high achieving and GCSE outcomes are very good. Ofsted carried out an ungraded inspection of the school in January 2024; the school remained ‘good’ with many aspects of the school’s work being recognised as ‘first class’. There is a very strong international ethos and tangible links with schools in Africa, Asia and Europe. The school has a very strong focus on staff development. Career development is pursued in leadership, pedagogy and pastoral opportunities.
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