Assistant SENCO
Church Lawton School, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST7 3EL48 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
3 September 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
12 July 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, term time: 37 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Circa 27 -33k (31 – 38k FTE) or 20 – 26k (23 – 30k FTE) – see advert
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Role
As our Assistant Special Educational Needs Coordinator (Assistant SENCO), you will help us transform the lives of autistic children and young people. Working with the school’s senior leadership team and wider staff group, you will play a key role in helping us develop or provision for students with SEN or a disability, providing advice and guidance and promoting a culture that fosters good outcomes for our pupils.
You will be passionate about educational provision that transforms lives, and have relevant experience of working with people with special educational needs and / or in an educational setting. You will bring an understanding of autism and the regulations around special educational needs and disability, together with an organised, professional approach and the emotional intelligence to work effectively with a range of challenges.
The Opportunity
For this opportunity, we would love to hear from candidates with QTS / QTLS or equivalent, wishing to specialise in a Special Educational Needs Coordinator role. A successful candidate with the necessary qualifications would be appointed at a ‘proficient’ level, in the salary range 27 – 33k (pro rata for term-time working, based on 31 – 38k full-time equivalent) depending on experience, and we would support you in attaining the national professional qualification for SENCOs qualification.
We would equally love to hear from suitable candidates with the aptitude and motivation for a role like this, but who do not yet hold QTS / QTLS or equivalent. Such candidates can be considered for a ‘developmental’ opportunity, appointed initially in the salary range 20 – 26k (pro rata for term-time working, based on 23 – 30k full-time equivalent) depending on experience. We would support you in attaining QTS, and would promote to a proficient-level grade on completion, before then supporting with the national professional qualification for SENCOs qualification. To be considered for the developmental role, you would need to hold a degree in order to be eligible for QTS.
Your application should make clear whether you are applying for the role on a proficient or developmental basis.
What the school offers its staff
The role is based at our Church Lawton School in Staffordshire. You will work 37 hours a week for 45.8 weeks of the year - salary is reduced pro rata to reflect the nature of the role as principally term-time-only. We offer a competitive salary and pension, as well as a range of benefits and a focus on staff well-being. More importantly, we offer the opportunity to play a part in highly rewarding work, as part of an ambitious and supportive team.
The Liberty Academy Trust is an education charity established in 2022. Our purpose is to deliver an education for our children that meets their needs, aspirations, and interests, and which prepares them well for adulthood. Our values of courage, determination and teamwork are the key drivers to bring about positive change, so that all our children and young people can be successful now and in their future lives.
We are currently a small Trust of three academies, with plans to grow so that our reach and impact can extend further. Committed to providing an excellent education for autistic children and young people, our approach is to support the whole child, offering a balance of personalised teaching and therapeutic support as standard.
We opened Church Lawton School in 2015 and provides a curriculum for students from across the spectrum who have a range of learning needs. This covers an age range from age 4 to age 19, building each child’s development week by week, term by term and year by year.
Further details about the role
Qualifications, Training and Knowledge
1. Have an undergraduate Degree or hold a professional degree in Education/Health or Social Care Qualification or accepted technical qualification agreed by Society Education and Training (SET).
2. Have QTS/QTLS or be prepared to gain this qualification
3. Knowledge of regulations around education and children with special educational needs, including SEND Regulations 2014 the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Code of Practice.
4. A sound understanding of autism, its implications for education.
5. Understand the theory and practice of effective teaching and learning.
6. Understand the importance of high expectations and equality of access for all students.
7. Knowledge of safeguarding responsibilities.
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.
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About Church Lawton School
- School type
- Free School, ages 4 to 19
- School size
- 75 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Church Lawton School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- stacy.booth@churchlawtonschool.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01270877601
Arranging a visit to Church Lawton School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email stacy.booth@churchlawtonschool.org.uk.
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