Assistant Headteacher SENCO

Sanders Draper, Hornchurch, RM12 6RT

7 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Easter 2025

• Closing date

  10 February 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  27 January 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £69,239.00 - £76,112.00 Annually (Actual) Leadership 12-16 Outer London

Assistant Headteacher SENCO job summary

The SENCo at Sanders Draper Secondary School plays a pivotal role in ensuring that all pupils, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), receive the support and provision they need to thrive and achieve their full potential. As a key member of the school's leadership team, the SENCo will work closely with the head, governors, trust and other stakeholders to develop and implement effective SEND policies, practices, and interventions that are aligned with the school's vision of providing an exceptional educational experience for all.

If you are a dedicated educational leader with a passion for student well-being and academic success, we invite you to join Sanders Draper Secondary School. Together, we can continue to provide a safe and enriching environment where students thrive and succeed.

Strategic Leadership and Management

• Provide strategic leadership and vision for SEND provision within the school, ensuring it is embedded across all aspects of school life.

• Oversee the assessment, identification, and provision of support for students with special educational needs

• Coordinate the development and implementation of effective, evidence-based interventions and strategies to support students

• Monitor and evaluate the impact of SEN provision, making adjustments as necessary

• Liaise with teachers, parents, and external agencies to ensure a collaborative approach to supporting students

• Contribute to the school's ambitious curriculum, ensuring it is accessible and inclusive for all learners

• Collaborate with the headteacher, governing body, and other senior leaders to ensure that the school's budget and delegated funding is strategically allocated to secure the most effective SEND provision.

• Contribute to the school's development planning, identifying priorities and actions to improve outcomes for pupils with SEND.

• Provide guidance and training to teaching staff to enhance their understanding and skills in supporting students with SEN

• Promote the importance of SEND provision and the value it brings across the school, working to raise awareness and understanding among staff, pupils, and the wider community.

Identification and Assessment of SEND

• Implement an efficient SEND identification process across the school, ensuring that barriers to learning are identified and addressed at the earliest opportunity.

• Maintain accurate and detailed records of pupils with SEND, including a SEND Register that reflects core assessment data and early indications of possible SEND.

• Work collaboratively with teachers, families, and other professionals to identify and assess the needs of pupils with SEND, drawing on their experiences and knowledge to inform the process.

• Analyse a range of data and evidence, including information on behaviour, attendance, and performance, to support accurate identification of SEND.

Provision and Intervention

• Ensure that effective interventions are informed by a full understanding of pupils' needs and are well-matched to address barriers to learning.

• Monitor the implementation of interventions, including appropriate timing, length, resources, and delivery by trained professionals, to maximise their success.

• Facilitate the provision of small group and one-to-one interventions, providing the opportunity to apply effective teaching strategies with a more intense focus on a smaller number of learning goals.

• Ensure that targeted academic support is linked to the wider curriculum and pupils' learning in class, complementing and not replacing effective teaching in the classroom.

• Oversee the deployment and training of teaching assistants to deliver well-evidenced, structured interventions to individual pupils or small groups.

Collaboration and Communication

• Establish and maintain effective communication channels between the school, families, and external agencies and specialists to ensure a coordinated approach to supporting pupils with SEND.

• Inform families when making special educational provision for a pupil and agree with them what information is shared if a pupil moves to a new setting.

• Work closely with the local authority and other agencies to share and seek accurate information in a timely manner, contributing to wider community SEND initiatives.

• Liaise with relevant careers leads to provide meaningful employability and work experience opportunities for pupils with SEND, as appropriate to the school's phase.

Compliance and Accountability

• Ensure the school's SEND Information Report and SEND Policy are up-to-date, accessible, and contribute to the Accessibility Plan.

• Monitor the implementation of the graduated approach (assess, plan, do, review) to SEND provision and report on its effectiveness to the governing body.

• Work with the examination officer and external organisations to ensure appropriate access arrangements are made for pupils with SEND.

• Contribute to an accountability framework whereby teachers are responsible and accountable for the progress and development of all pupils, including those with SEND.

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

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Sanders Draper

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 667 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Sanders Draper website (opens in new tab)
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Sanders is part of the Success for All Educational Trust along with Redden Court School and The Royal Liberty School for boys.

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