Deputy SENCO
Orleans Park School, Twickenham, TW1 3BB24 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Required for September 2025
Closing date
25 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
27 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS Outer London
Additional allowances
Plus TLR2B £5,655 and SEN Allowance £2,679
What skills and experience we're looking for
Orleans Park is a successful and oversubscribed 11-18 mixed comprehensive that serves its local community in Twickenham with over 1,350 students. The dedicated staff work hard to ensure students are successful and leave as responsible citizens and confident individuals.
We are seeking to appoint an outstanding Deputy SENCO who will help lead and manage this busy, thriving Learning Support Department. The school has an exceptionally large number of students with EHCP’s with very diverse needs.
You should:
- be committed to the highest standards of Teaching & Learning
- passionate about ensuring students with SEN reach their full potential
- have experience of using students centred reviews
- have excellent interpersonal skills
- be a highly effective team motivator and manager
- have a good knowledge of SEN Code of Practice and an understanding of the implications for schools
- hold the SENCO qualification or be prepared to work towards it
- have excellent communication skills
What the school offers its staff
Orleans Park is a successful and oversubscribed 11-18 mixed comprehensive that serves its local community in Twickenham with over 1,350 students. The dedicated staff work hard to ensure students are successful and leave as responsible citizens and confident individuals.
Further details about the role
Applications are shortlisted for interview as they are received so early application is encouraged and we reserve the right to commence the interview process and close the vacancy prior to this date.
Closing date for applications: 10am on Friday 25 April 2025.
Orleans Park is committed to continuing to make diversity, equity, and inclusion part of everything we do. Ensuring that we are always recruiting, retaining and promoting a diverse mix of colleagues who are representative of the diversity in our local communities gives us a great opportunity to have access to a broad range of ideas and allows us to provide an outstanding education to our young people and an outstanding place for people to work.
In line with the statutory guidance document Keeping Children Safe in Education (2024) the school will conduct online searches after the shortlisting process for any candidates who accept an invitation to interview. The appointment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including references, medicalclearance and an enhanced DBS Disclosure. Orleans Park is committed to safeguarding andpromoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.We are an equal opportunities employer.
Commitment to safeguarding
In line with the statutory guidance document Keeping Children Safe in Education (2024) the school will conduct online searches after the shortlisting process for any candidates who accept an invitation to interview. The appointment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including references, medical clearance and an enhanced DBS Disclosure. Orleans Park is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are an equal opportunities employer interview.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
About Orleans Park School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1373 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Orleans Park School website
- Email address
- recruitment@orleanspark.school
Orleans Park is an Outstanding School (Ofsted November 2023) with over 1,350 students, serving its local community in Twickenham. The dedicated staff work hard to ensure students are successful and leave as responsible citizens and confident individuals.
Please see more about working at Orleans Park on our website https://www.orleanspark.school/about-us/working-at-orleans
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