SENDCo

John Mason School, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 1JB

4 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Easter or earlier if the right candidate is available

• Closing date

  18 November 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  25 October 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subjects: Special Education Needs (SEN), Special Needs
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £30,000.00 - £46,525.00 Annually (FTE) MPS-UPS if post threshold plus a TLR1(2) £11,407 pay award pending

SENDCo job summary

We wish to appoint an enthusiastic, creative, and committed leader of the Learning Support Department from Easter 2025.

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual who wants to take on an important leadership role within a thriving SEND Department. The successful candidate will have the ability to lead and deliver an exceptionally high standard of SEND provision. Knowledge of SEND literacy and numeracy strategies for raising achievement is essential, as is the ability to work with all curriculum areas and year teams in the school. They will lead a highly successful and well-established team of Teaching Assistants, interfacing with the schools pastoral team.

This post is suitable for a teacher who is willing to work towards the NASENCO (National Award for SEN Coordination) qualification whilst in post (twelve months), for which the school will support the training or a teacher who has already achieved the NASENCO.

The successful candidate will:

Be an enthusiastic individual who can lead the SEND provision across the school

Have high expectations of children’s attainment, progress, behaviour and emotional wellbeing

Have high expectations of their own achievement and development, both professionally and personally

Have excellent organizational skills and up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation

Have experience of implementing strategies to successfully support students

Be able to model good practice, deliver training and recommend specific programmes of intervention for students

Be a team player who is creative, energetic and who will provide enriching and inspiring learning opportunities for our young people

Make a positive contribution to all aspects of school life

Be an excellent classroom practitioner

In return we can offer:

A warm, welcoming school with a friendly and dedicated staff team

A dedicated and enthusiastic team of TAs to deliver interventions

Students who have a desire to achieve and respect the school’s expectations

A programme of supported induction and continuing professional development firmly rooted in educational research

A commitment to supporting the wellbeing of all staff.

Please include with your application a letter addressed to Alastair West, Headteacher, addressing how your experience suits you for this role and how you see the role developing in the short, medium, and long term. The letter should be no more than two sides of A4.

Commitment to safeguarding

Abingdon Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Enhanced check. The Trust is fully committed to the principles of equal opportunity, di-versity and inclusion and welcomes applications from less well-represented groups in the school and Trust. Posts in regulated activity are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 and all shortlisted candidates will be required to disclose information about their previous criminal convic-tions. All staff are expected to promote fundamental British values.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About John Mason School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1043 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: John Mason School website (opens in new tab)
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John Mason School is part of the Abingdon Learning Trust and is fully committed to the safeguarding and wellbeing of all its students and staff.

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