Assistant SENDCO
Drake Primary School, Thetford, Norfolk, IP24 1JW28 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
1 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
26 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Hours: 0830-1530 x 5 = 30 hours a week, term time plus one week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,711
Pay scale
- Support Staff scale F
What skills and experience we're looking for
Drake Primary School has a unique opportunity for an excellent practitioner to work alongside our Pastoral Team and Inclusion Lead as an Assistant SENDCo.
You will be joining an innovative, trail-blazing primary school and playing a role in its success and the ongoing development of SEND offer. Vital to this success is the meaningful inclusion and integration of our pupils within. You will work closely with the Pastoral and Senior Leadership Team who lead on Safeguarding, Attendance, Specialist Provision and Parent Communication in order to ensure best practice and consistency of provision for our pupils across the school.
In addition to working with colleagues, you will work closely with families, building positive trusting relationships with them and their children. You will also collaborate with external professionals and agencies, to ensure the best outcomes for our pupils.
The role will also include the opportunity to model Quality-First Teaching through teaching cover across our school.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you:
- An innovative, trail-blazing and successful school where you will feel well supported in your role by an experienced Senior Leadership Team and the wider warm & friendly staff team
- A school recognised for its outstanding SEND and inclusion practice
- A school committed to empowering pupils and staff to be advocates and agents of change for a more sustainable world
- The opportunity to work with the most wonderful students and families
- A caring ethos with enthusiastic and skilled staff who are highly aspirational and committed to pupil welfare, progress and life-chances
- Excellent professional development and career enhancement opportunities
- Safeguarding training and career pathway meetings to help plan your future
- Well-resourced facilities for ICT
- Opportunities to work in the local community and with our partner federation school
- A platinum arts mark school with musicians in residence
- Collaborative work with our local cultural education partnership celebrating creativity and enrichment
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 headspa@drake.norfolk.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Drake Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 417 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Drake Primary School website
- Email address
- headspa@drake.norfolk.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01842 762055
Arranging a visit to Drake Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email headspa@drake.norfolk.sch.uk.
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