Assistant SENCO

Norton College, Malton, North Yorkshire, YO17 9PT

Deadline is tomorrow

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  10 March 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  13 February 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,414.00 - £26,491.00 Annually (Actual) Grade G, Scale Points 13-18 , based on the full-time equivalent of £28,163 - £30,559.

Assistant SENCO job summary

Assistant SENCO

We have an exciting opportunity to appoint an Assistant SENCO focusing on the support of students with a range of educational needs and to work with teachers to support teaching and learning by working with individuals or groups of pupils. You will be responsible for some learning activities within the overall teaching plan with access to support and guidance as required. You will perform the role of assistant to the SENCO and contribute to the effective running of the SEN department.

Hours of Work 37 hours per week, term time only (39 weeks per year, including training days)

Line Manager: SENCO

The salary is dependent on current qualifications and experience, please see the attached job description for more information.

About the Trust

Areté Learning Trust currently has 11 schools and educates over 7,000 young people in and around North Yorkshire from ages 2-18. Our learners are at the heart of everything we do.

At Areté Learning Trust we work together and collaborate to ensure that all of our learners and our staff team have the chance to reach their potential.

Our Trust is committed to promoting:

Health, happiness and wellbeing

A safe, disciplined and supportive environment

A love of learning through a passionate and committed approach

High standards and expectations

Integrity, kindness and good manners

Respect for individuality and difference

Collaborative working to secure excellence

To realise our aspiration for every child to be the best they can be, we need to ensure that as a Trust we are ‘Striving for Excellence’.

Why work for us?

We want everyone who works within ALT to feel valued and see how their work fits into the bigger picture.

We seek employees who are prepared to take personal responsibility and constantly challenge the norm to improve performance.

In return, we are committed to providing an empowering and supportive learning environment for all staff.

Areté Learning Trust is committed to being the ‘Employer of Choice’.

Essentially this means that we want our schools and our central team to be great places to work. We want our staff development opportunities to be first class and we want to enable staff who are ambitious to grow their careers with us. To give our learners the best education and opportunities we are committed to recruiting and retaining the very best people in all areas of our organisation.

Regardless of role, we seek staff who:

Have high expectations of themselves and the people they work with.

Are committed to our Trust values.

Show initiative and are responsive to change.

Have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and motivate others.

Are creative in their approach to problem solving.

Are able to influence effectively, whatever their role.

Are team players.

We welcome applications from all backgrounds; for more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy statement (https://www.arete.uk/careers). If you are ready for the next step in your career and you feel that your skill set makes you a good fit for this very exciting opportunity, then we look forward to receiving your application.

Application Process

Please complete the online application form to apply for this role. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application. You should use the information supplied within the Job Description & Person Specification to make the best of your application by identifying some specific pieces of work you may have undertaken in any of these areas. Your application may be viewed in regard to some or all of the skill specific areas over the course of the selection process. Applications via agencies will not be considered.

Interviews will take place on as soon as possible after the closing date.

The Areté Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes enhanced criminal records and barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks. Online searches may be done as part of due diligence checks.

Our safeguarding system is underpinned by a range of policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the Trust. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our children and young people.

Commitment to safeguarding

The College is committed to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and as such expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check.

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 Norton College

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 733 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Norton College website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/norton-college-malton

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