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Assistant SENDCO and SEMH lead Teaching Assistant

Uplands Academy, Wadhurst, East Sussex, TN5 6AZ

This job expired on 18 November 2024 – see similar jobs

• Closing date

  18 November 2024 at 10am

• Date listed

  25 October 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £30,740.00 - £32,898.00 Annually (FTE) Single Status Grade 9

Assistant SENDCO and SEMH lead Teaching Assistant job summary

Main Duties & Responsibilities

Assistant SENDCo

As the Assistant SENDCo, you will play a vital role in supporting the SENDCo to enhance the personal development, behavior, progress, and welfare of SEND students, ensuring alignment with the Academy's policies and standards. Key responsibilities include the following:

• Student Progress & Attainment: Work with the SENDCo to ensure that students with SEN make progress and achieve outcomes in line with their peers, monitoring their attainment, behaviour, wellbeing and attendance.

• Monitoring & Reporting: Support the tracking and analysis of student learning, progress, and participation. Collaborate with the Senior TA Year Coordinators and other staff to review student performance and provide recommendations for further support.

• Teaching Assistant Oversight: Oversee the deployment and effectiveness of teaching assistants, ensuring the implementation of strategies that promote a learning environment and compliance with statutory requirements, including timetabling based on EHCPs.

• SEND Support Coordination: Work with the Senior TA Year Coordinators, student support department and subject teachers to manage the provision for students with EHCPs or SEND Support, ensuring appropriate resources and interventions are in place.

• Collaboration with External Agencies: Liaise with outside agencies, attending meetings needed, to enhance outcomes for SEN students. Be familiar with and use the appropriate referral systems to access external support. This includes partnerships with services like the Sensory Needs Service to meet individual needs such as visual impairments.

• Attendance & Engagement Promotion: Actively promote attendance and participation among SEND students, working to improve overall student engagement and welfare. This includes opportunities for students to access alternative provision where appropriate and practical and students accessing education via the Teaching and Learning Provision.

• Performance Management: Line manage Learning Support Department staff, conducting performance reviews and supporting professional development in alignment with departmental goals.

• Strategic Planning: Assist the SENDCo with the development and execution of strategic plans to support the advancement of the academy. Oversee the implementation of initiatives, ensuring alignment with the overall vision, monitoring progress, and adjusting strategies as needed to drive continuous improvement and achieve key objectives.

• Academy Representation: Represent the SENDCo and the Academy at professional meetings, ensuring the Academy’s interests and policies are communicated effectively.

Specialist Teaching Assistant for SEMH

As a Specialist Teaching Assistant for SEMH, you will provide targeted support to students with social, emotional, and mental health needs, working to promote their well-being, progress, and positive behavior. Your key responsibilities include:

• Social, emotional curriculum: Develop a social, emotional curriculum to support students who are not yet ‘ready to learn’ or who need alternatives to our main curriculum to meet their SEMH needs

• Safe space: Oversee the development, implementation and ongoing running of a safe space within school for students to access when they are not able to attend lessons. Work with subject teachers to support students to access any learning they are missing through non-attendance to lessons

• Student Support: Provide direct support to students with SEMH needs, helping them manage their emotions, behavior, and relationships to engage effectively with their learning.

• Intervention Implementation: Assist in planning and delivering individual or small-group interventions that address emotional regulation, social skills, problem solving and resilience, ensuring alignment with students' individualised plans. This could include literacy and numeracy support.

• Monitoring & Reporting: Track student progress in relation to their SEMH targets maintaining records and regularly reporting to the SENDCo, teachers, and relevant staff to adapt strategies as needed. Use the Assess, Plan, Do, Review cycle to monitor and track progress.

• Collaboration with Staff: Work closely with teachers, pastoral staff, and the SENDCo to create a supportive learning environment, ensuring strategies are effectively implemented in the classroom and beyond.

• Family and Agency Liaison: Act as a key point of contact for parents and external agencies, working collaboratively to ensure a holistic approach to student well-being and progress.

• Crisis Management: Provide immediate support to students during emotional or behavioral crises, using de-escalation techniques and working with staff to ensure a safe environment.

• Training & Development: Support staff by sharing expertise in SEMH strategies, contributing to the development of a whole-school approach to promoting mental health and emotional well-being.

• Attendance Promotion: Encourage regular attendance and engagement among SEMH students, identifying barriers to attendance and supporting strategies to overcome them.

• Safeguarding & Well-being: Uphold the school's safeguarding policies, always ensuring student safety emotional well-being.

• Collaboration with External Agencies: Liaise with outside agencies, attending meetings needed, to enhance outcomes for SEN students. Be familiar with and use the appropriate referral systems to access external support.

General duties

• Policy Adherence: Follow and uphold the Academy’s policies and procedures, including the reporting of student and Academy issues.

• Confidentiality & Professionalism: Handle all matters with confidentiality, tact, discretion, ensuring sensitivity in every situation.

• Positive Role Modelling: Demonstrate and promote the positive values, attitudes, and behaviors expected from both students and staff, fostering a respectful and inclusive environment.

• High Expectations & Respect for Diversity: Maintain high expectations of all students, respecting their diverse backgrounds and being committed to raising their educational achievement.

• Building Student Relationships: Establish and maintain positive, supportive relationships with students, treating them with consistency, respect, and consideration for their development as learners

• Collaboration & Support: Work collaboratively with colleagues, seeking guidance and support when necessary to enhance student learning and well-being.

• Inclusion & Diversity: Promote and support the inclusion of all students within the Academy, recognizing and addressing equal opportunities and diversity issues by challenging inappropriate behavior, bullying, or harassment, in accordance with Academy policies.

• Parental Liaison: Communicate effectively and sensitively with parents and carers, acknowledging their key role in the learning and development of students.

• Academy Representation: Positively promote the Academy both within and outside the workplace, including mindful use of personal social media, understanding the potential impact of its misuse.

• Professional Development: Continuously improve your practice, showing commitment to ongoing professional development and training.

• Curriculum Familiarity: Be knowledgeable about the Academy curriculum, age-related expectations, teaching methods, and assessment frameworks.

Commitment to safeguarding

All posts are subject to DBS enhanced clearance, health checks and satisfactory references. MARK Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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About Uplands Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 799 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Uplands Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/uplands-community-college-wadhurst (opens in new tab)

Uplands Academy converted to an Academy in September 2022 and became a member of the MARK Education Trust (formally Beacon Community College Academy Trust). The acronym MARK was selected because staff who work in the trust are motivated, ambitious, resourceful, and knowledgeable. This partnership will provide many exciting opportunities for professional development, and the sharing of good practice across the schools within the trust.

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