Assistant SENDCo
Wixams Academy, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK42 6BA6 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
16 March 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
25 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: Term Time. 37.5 hours per week/ 39 weeks per year
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £29,540 - £32,198
Actual salary
- £23,688 - £25,819
What skills and experience we're looking for
Duties
All administrative and clerical duties needed to support the SENDCO.
Answering enquires, typing, faxing, and sending letters and reports to parents /outside agencies.
Booking appointments with parents and professional colleagues (Outside agencies).
Please see the attached document to learn more.
What the school offers its staff
Wixams Academy are recruiting for a SENDCo Assistant to join our growing school!
Wixams Academy is a comprehensive Academy serving circa (in September 2023) 950 pupils including 120 pupils in the Sixth Form. We opened in 2017 with only 80 students and continue to grow annually (with new students and staff) to 1750 students and 200 staff by 2030. we are currently working with Bedford Borough Council and the Department for Education to expand the capacity of the school to facilitate this growth. The Academy has been popular and oversubscribed since opening and we have low staff turnover. The Academy is located one mile south of Bedford town centre and has a mixed community, with broadly national composition. We have recently merged Knowledge Schools Trust (KST) to create a local hub to drive further growth in the region.
For full details please see attached job description.
Kindly note that interviews may be conducted earlier if we receive suitable applications.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Wixams Academy
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 926 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wixams Academy website
- Email address
- c.bangar@ks-t.org
- Phone number
- 020 8600 0675
School location
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