Assistant Head Teacher/SENCo

Long Sutton County Primary School, Spalding, Lincolnshire, PE12 9EP

23 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2025

• Closing date

  28 October 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  4 October 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £49,781.00 - £54,939.00 Annually (FTE) Actual Salary £39824.80 - £43951.20

Assistant Head Teacher/SENCo job summary

Assistant Head /SENCo Job Advert

Long Sutton County Primary School is excited to be recruiting a talented and motivated individual to join us as an Assistant Head, SENCo and SEMH Lead.

Job title: Assistant Head with responsibility for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Coordinator (SENCO) & SEMH Lead

Salary: Leadership Pay Scale (1-5)

Hours: 0.8 (Possibility of a further 0.2 Senco day across the Trust, at MPS or UPS)

Contract type: Permanent

We are seeking to appoint a dynamic, highly competent, engaging individual who has the drive and enthusiasm to help take our school forward further. The role requires the Assistant Head to take on the role of SENCo, to lead on SEMH across the school and lead the pastoral team. This part of the role is for three days a week. There is also a commitment to some regular cover of classes for either one or two days a week. We are keen to find the right person for our wonderful school and are open to discussions regarding the role and how it could be shaped to ensure we get that person who has a passion for making a difference!

Long Sutton County Primary School is a fully inclusive two-form entry school and is part of the Keystone Academy Trust which prides itself on recognising the individual characteristics of each of its schools.

The successful candidate will be someone who:

• Is a qualified teacher with a record of good or better practice
• Has a track record of successful leadership and management
• Has excellent communication and organisational skills
• Promotes high standards and expectations of achievement
• Has proven excellent classroom practice
• Demonstrates initiative and strategic thinking
• Shows excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Is hardworking and highly motivated, with a strong team spirit
• Already holds the National SENCo Award or would be prepared to undertake the Award
• Has an excellent understanding of the SEN Code of Practice and its related processes.
• Can lead by example in your manner and delivery of targeted support and interventions.
• Is confident in providing support by advising and guiding staff to ensure children successfully make the next steps in their learning.
• Is passionate about providing high quality SEND education and provision across the school
• Has a passion for SEMH and understands the importance of this aspect of child development

Long Sutton County Primary School can offer you:

• Highly motivated children who love to learn
• A forward-thinking leadership team, with dedicated and hardworking Staff and Governors
• A commitment to on-going professional development and support
• A significant opportunity to take a lead role in the direction of the school
• A strong whole school approach and a chance to work within a growing Multi Academy Trust
• A positive approach to well-being which we embrace and is not just part of a policy.
• The opportunity to make a difference to children's lives

If you are ambitious, enjoy a challenge and want to make a real difference to children’s lives, then please come to look around the school to meet the Head Teacher to see if Long Sutton Primary School is the right school for you. Please telephone the office for an appointment.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

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About Long Sutton County Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 442 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Long Sutton County Primary School website (opens in new tab)
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We are a large, rural Primary School with inquisitive and well behaved

children. Our vision at Long Sutton CP School is that all of our pupils are

confident and persistent in pursuit of high aspirations and taught through a stimulating and varied curriculum. We are constantly seeking to develop our provision and the use of our extensive grounds as part of outdoor learning.

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