Assistant SENDCo
Dawlish College, Dawlish, Devon, EX7 0BY23 days remaining to apply
Start date details
required from 1st March 2025 (or as soon as possible thereafter)
Closing date
13 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
6 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
- Pastoral, health and welfare
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday (08:30-16:30 Monday – Thursday, 08:30-1600 Friday),
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Scale 6, Point 24-28 (£34,314-£37,938 Full Time Equivalent p.a pro rata)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Dawlish College
Assistant SENDCo
Permanent – required from 1st March 2025 (or as soon as possible thereafter)
At Dawlish College, our mission is to eradicate educational disadvantage in Dawlish.
We work towards this mission by living out our three values – We Work Hard, We Work Together and We Make Things Better – every single day. This includes starting each day with a Warm Welcome for every pupil and fostering a strong community spirit among our staff.
Ivy Education Trust is looking to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated Assistant SENDCo to support our SEND team at Dawlish College. This is an exciting post that will offer you the chance to work with a range of staff to meet the needs of those students who have been identified as requiring alternative provision. We need a colleague who is creative, able to plan and implement effective action to substantially improve the outcomes of some of our most vulnerable students. To accelerate the progress of pupils and demonstrate significant impact through their work with the department. As Assistant SENDCo you will assist in the management of the SEND team as well as working closely with students, parents/carers, other staff and outside agencies to identify, assess and meet the needs of students with special educational needs. A key part of the role is the management of learning intervention programmes, ensuring students make good progress.
Please see attached information pack for further details regarding this post.
In addition to the DfE Standards of Professional Development at Dawlish College, our professional development will also:
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement for all Tailor programmes to the needs and priorities of the individual and their specific role
- Provide personalised coaching and support
- Draw on both internal and external professional expertise
- Evaluate each programme for its impact
- Align professional development with the school improvement plan
What the school offers its staff
Dawlish College is a vibrant and exciting place to be. As a relatively small school we have the luxury of knowing every young person as an individual whilst also being able to offer a wider variety of opportunities. Workingcollaboratively, having fun and enjoying what we do is at the heart of what it means to work with us and webelieve that this is why students thrive, our outcomes are strong and we are growing year on year.
Dawlish College is part of Ivy Education Trust. At Ivy Education Trust, we have exceptional expectations of our students and staff and we welcome applicants who share our commitment to place student learning at the center of everything we do. Our induction programme is excellent, and all staff are involved in an innovative CPD programme. Ivy Education Trust is an inspiring place to work, with staff who are dedicated to increasing opportunities, improving outcomes and improving the life chances of all pupils and families that we serve and to nurture, develop and grow the talent of staff.
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 download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@ivyeducationtrust.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Dawlish College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 748 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Dawlish College website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- KWharton-Darke@dawlish.devon.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01626 862318
Dawlish College is a vibrant and exciting place to be where we have the highest expectations of staff and students alike and seek to provide challenge at every available opportunity.
As a small secondary school for pupils aged 11-16, we have a very proud record of holistic support, care and individual attention: the happiness and wellbeing of our students is of paramount importance and is a vital foundation for their growth and development.
Arranging a visit to Dawlish College
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email KWharton-Darke@dawlish.devon.sch.uk.
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