Assistant Headteacher - SENCO and Inclusion
Hilbre High School, Wirral, Merseyside, CH48 6EQ27 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Easter or September 2025
Closing date
17 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
19 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: FT
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L11-15
What skills and experience we're looking for
Essential:
- Experience of working in an SEN Department.
- Leadership in a secondary school setting.
- Successfully leading the implementation of change and reviewing its impact.
- Implementing strategies to promote supporting children with SEND.
- Involvement in self-evaluation and development planning.
- Conducting training/leading INSET.
- Sharing good practice within and outside of own school.
- Evidence of successful partnership and/or multi-agency working.
- Experience of management and the ability to lead, inspire and develop a team of teachers and Teaching Assistants.
- Proven track record of outstanding/good classroom practice.
- Proven track record of strong examination results.
- Proven track record in raising standards of student achievement.
Desirable:
- Experience of teaching within an 11-18 school.
- Experience of teaching in more than one school.
Essential:
Applicants should be able to demonstrate high level knowledge and understanding of:
- SEND Code of Practice.
- Local and national policies, priorities and statutory frameworks for SEND.
- Strategies for raising standards of attainment for SEND students.
- Inclusion and a vision for the development of inclusion and learning support.
- Outside agency support for SEND learners and how to access this.
- Quality assurance.
- Procedures for exam access arrangements.
- School improvement strategies.
- Furthering the role of parents and legal guardians in the education of students and wider life of the school.
- 11-16 curriculum and curriculum developments relevant to the post.
- Changes in legislation pertinent to SEND.
- Ability to deliver bespoke CPD to colleagues.
- Data analysis skills, and the ability to use data to inform provision planning.
- Ability to deal effectively with complex situations and make informed decisions.
- Ability to establish priorities in the face of competing demands.
· Excellent ICT skills. · Review and evaluation skills through monitoring and evaluating student progress and the impact of intervention strategies.
What the school offers its staff
In May 2024, Hilbre joined Oak Trees Multi Academy Trust (https://www.oaktreesmat.co.uk/). Oak Trees is comprised of Hilbre High School and eleven Wirral based primary schools. Oak Trees provides specialist SEND support and has a SEND lead working centrally. The SEND Lead consults and advises all schools on quality first adaptations for students with SEND, acts as a Local Authority liaison and advises on SEND funding agreements.
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding requirements:
Hilbre High School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This role has been assessed as working in regulated activity and is subject to an Enhanced DBS plus Children’s Barred List Check.
Any offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory Enhanced DBS disclosure with a child barred list check, receipt of references and successful completion of vetting procedures. It is an offence to apply for this role if candidates are barred from engaging in Regulated Activity relevant to children.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to schooloffice@hilbre.wirral.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
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About Hilbre High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1201 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Hilbre High School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- schooloffice@hilbre.wirral.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 0151 625 5996
Hilbre is a hard-working, lively academy where we believe that learning is an enjoyable and rewarding experience for all our students. We pride ourselves in recognising the varied and individual needs of our students and the broad, balanced education we provide, both in and outside the classroom, ensures our students can leave school with the skills, knowledge and understanding necessary to contribute confidently in today’s ever changing world.
At Hilbre High School Humanities College, you will find an 11-18 academy with just over one thousand students on roll. We are an academy which genuinely welcomes people into a partnership with a shared aim; to achieve the most we possibly can, both academically and socially for our students. We believe in success, progress, challenge and the enjoyment of learning and we constantly strive to ensure that all students achieve their very best.
Indeed, our pledge is to ensure that every student, whatever their starting point, makes rapid and sustained progress through effective, high quality teaching, in order to achieve the best outcomes within a caring and supportive environment. Our academy has the advantage of being coeducational. This enables us to deliver the full range of curriculum opportunities within a more natural and rounded environment for the social development of our students.
Arranging a visit to Hilbre High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email schooloffice@hilbre.wirral.sch.uk.
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