Assistant headteacher - SENDCo
The Quinta Primary School, Congleton, Cheshire, CW12 4LX22 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
27 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
24 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
- Assistant headteacher
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £49,781 - £52,301
Pay scale
- L1-L3
What skills and experience we're looking for
Essentials:
Qualified Teacher Status, with a degree-level qualification or equivalent.
Proven Leadership Experience: At least three years of strong, successful leadership and management experience in a primary school.
Expert Knowledge of SEND Legislation: Sound understanding of relevant legislation, including the ‘SEND Code of Practice’.
Strategic Development: Ability to develop and implement strategic plans for SEND policy and provision.
Data Analysis Skills: Competence in evaluating and using data to plan and improve pupil performance.
High Ethical Standards: Commitment to promoting the school’s vision and ethos with integrity and professionalism.
Safeguarding: Strong commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
Effective Communication: Excellent communication skills to engage with pupils, staff, parents, and external agencies.
Curriculum and Teaching Innovation: Secure excellent teaching through understanding of successful classroom practice and curriculum design.
Management of Resources: Ability to advise on and manage the school’s delegated budget and resources effectively for SEND provision.
Expert classroom practitioner:Evidence of expert classroom practice across a range of early childhood (ages 2-11.)
Desirables:
Wider Professional Knowledge: Sustained knowledge and understanding of local, national, and global education systems and continuous professional development (CPD).
Community Engagement: Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with the wider community, including parents, carers, trustees, and other schools.
Inclusive Education Advocate: Demonstrated commitment to advancing equality and overcoming disadvantage among pupils.
Research-Led Practice: Engage with external and internal research to innovate and improve teaching practices.
Performance Management: Experience in managing staff performance, addressing underperformance, and valuing excellent practice.
Change Management: Evidence of implementing, managing, and evaluating change collaboratively.
Empowering Leadership: Demonstrated ability to inspire and empower all staff and pupils to excel.
What the school offers its staff
Essentials:
Qualified Teacher Status, with a degree-level qualification or equivalent.
Proven Leadership Experience: At least three years of strong, successful leadership and management experience in a primary school.
Expert Knowledge of SEND Legislation: Sound understanding of relevant legislation, including the ‘SEND Code of Practice’.
Strategic Development: Ability to develop and implement strategic plans for SEND policy and provision.
Data Analysis Skills: Competence in evaluating and using data to plan and improve pupil performance.
High Ethical Standards: Commitment to promoting the school’s vision and ethos with integrity and professionalism.
Safeguarding: Strong commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
Effective Communication: Excellent communication skills to engage with pupils, staff, parents, and external agencies.
Curriculum and Teaching Innovation: Secure excellent teaching through understanding of successful classroom practice and curriculum design.
Management of Resources: Ability to advise on and manage the school’s delegated budget and resources effectively for SEND provision.
Desirables:
Wider Professional Knowledge: Sustained knowledge and understanding of local, national, and global education systems and continuous professional development (CPD).
Community Engagement: Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with the wider community, including parents, carers, trustees, and other schools.
Inclusive Education Advocate: Demonstrated commitment to advancing equality and overcoming disadvantage among pupils.
Research-Led Practice: Engage with external and internal research to innovate and improve teaching practices.
Performance Management: Experience in managing staff performance, addressing underperformance, and valuing excellent practice.
Change Management: Evidence of implementing, managing, and evaluating change collaboratively.
Empowering Leadership: Demonstrated ability to inspire and empower all staff and pupils to excel.
Flexible working opportunities
Dedicated PPA time that can be taken at home to support flexible working
Further details about the role
The Quinta Primary School is seeking to appoint a passionate and dedicated teacher to join our dynamic team. The successful candidate will be an expert classroom practitioner with strong knowledge of early years and year 1 education - experience of teaching across the full age range from 2 -11 is desirable but not essential.
As SENDco, we are looking for a truly inspirational leader with expert knowledge of SEND legislation, a proven track record in implementing or working within well-established, effective systems and the ability to connect with and lead people from all backgrounds.
In the role of Assistant Headteacher, the successful candidate must exhibit excellent problem solving and organisational skills. We value proactive, positive and purposeful individuals.
Job satisfaction is vital and our successful team supports high quality provision that also promotes staff wellbeing. This position offers the opportunity to work alongside a highly experienced Inclusion Team. This team is made up of the Designated Safeguarding Lead, Senior SEND Consultant, Senior Mental Health Lead and Assistant head for Inclusion.
As a part of our commitment to developing our own resource provision, you will play a pivotal role in the central design team responsible for crafting and shaping the provision.
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
Please complete the online application.
CVs are not accepted.
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About The Quinta Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 461 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The Quinta Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- shoyle@thequinta.cheshire.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01260221640
The Quinta Primary School is a large team of dedicated adults proudly educating almost 500 pupils everyday. We pride ourselves on having a secure knowledge of each and every child, relentlessly focusing on our core values, and a continual cycle of self improvement which ensures our children experience a uniquely excellent primary education. We believe that every single minute of each day is a gift and as a result, all of our decisions are formed around 4 keystone values:
Everyday excellence - In every relationship we build with pupils and adults, in every lesson delivered, residential experienced or path gritted we strive for excellence. We are research led in our strategic decision making and continuously and rigorously monitor the effectiveness of our provision.
Authentic Care - We care deeply about our community and understand that positive relationships are at the very heart of everything we build. With every interaction, whether with child or adult, we intend to ensure everyone feels valued, listened to and cared for.
Independence - 'Knowing what to do when we don't know what to do.' Developing a skill set in each and every person to allow them to thrive in their world, is a key priority at The Quinta. We intend to ensure that pupils and adults have or develop strategies to stay safe both on and offline, are aware of support networks that they can access and can self regulate their emotions.
Opportunity - 'We don't know what we don't know.' Immersing children and adults in as many first hand experiences as possible, opens up ideas and skills that they may not have ever known they had. Here at The Quinta we believe in opening doors for the future.
Arranging a visit to The Quinta Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email shoyle@thequinta.cheshire.sch.uk.
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