Part time SENDCo

West Wycombe School, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP14 3AH

5 days remaining to apply

Job start date
4 January 2024
Closing date
15 December 2023 at 11:59pm
Date listed
14 November 2023

Job details

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Visa sponsorship: No, visa sponsorship not available
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Contract type: Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary: £30,000.00 - £33,814.00 Annually (FTE)

Part time SENDCo job summary

We are recruiting for a three day a week SENDCO to join our team!

Main purpose:

The SENDCO under the direction of the headteacher, will:

- Work with the Senior Leadership Team to ensure that the whole school community shares the school’s vision and values

- Determine the strategic development of special educational needs (SEND) policy and provision in the school.

- Be responsible for day-to-day operation of the SEND policies and co-ordination of specific provision to support individual pupils with SEN or a disability

- Provide professional guidance to colleagues, working closely with staff, parents and other agencies.

- To ensure that the school complies with the SEN Code of Practice

- Fulfil the professional responsibilities of a teacher, as set out in the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document.

Duties and responsibilities:

- Strategic development of SEN policy and provision

- Have a strategic overview of provision for pupils with SEND across the school, monitoring and reviewing the quality of provision in line with the values and ethos of the school.

- Contribute to school self-evaluation, particularly with respect to provision for pupils with SEND, ensuring that all pupils aim to achieve high standards and teaching strategies implemented are effective in supporting all children

- Ensure the SEND policies are put into practice, and that the objectives of this policy are reflected in the school improvement plan

- Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of national and local initiatives which may affect the school’s policies and practice.

- Evaluate the impact of intervention and inclusion practices as to whether funding is being used effectively, and propose changes to make use of funding more effective

- Carry out training to be recognised as a school deputy designated lead. Ensure all staff have up-to-date training for Child Protection.

Operation of the policies and co-ordination of provision:

- Maintain an accurate SEND register and provision map

- Provide guidance to colleagues on teaching SEND.

- Advise on managing the use of the school’s budget and other resources to meet pupils’ needs effectively, including staff deployment.

- Manage opportunities for the provision in the local offer

- Work with other schools, educational psychologists, health and social care professionals, and other external agencies

- Be a key point of contact for external agencies, including the local authority

- Be a key point of contact for parents and carers acting as a link between the class teacher and parent body

- Analyse assessment data for specific groups of pupils and hold teachers accountable

- Implement and lead intervention groups for SEND, and evaluate their effectiveness

- Work with external agencies to address the needs/provision relating to Child Protection.

Support for SEND pupils

- Identify a pupil’s SEND

- Coordinate provision that meets the needs of SEND and groups of pupils, monitoring its effectiveness

- Secure relevant services for pupils

- Ensure records are maintained and kept up to date

- Review the education, health and care (EHC) plan with parents or carers and the pupil

- Communicate regularly with parents or carers

- Ensure that if the pupil transfers to another school, all relevant information is conveyed to it, and support a smooth transition for the pupil

- Promote the pupil’s inclusion in the school community and access to the curriculum, facilities and extra-curricular activities

- Be the designated teacher for looked-after children

- Monitor the progress of SEND pupils, interpreting assessment data

Leadership and Management

- Work with the headteacher and governors to ensure the school meets its responsibilities under the Equality Act 2010 in terms of reasonable adjustments and access arrangements

- Prepare and review information the governing board is required to publish

- Contribute to the school improvement plan and whole-school policy

- Identify training needs for staff and how to meet these needs

- Lead INSET for staff to disseminate key messages and training for all staff

- Hold teachers to account on their statutory responsibilities to pupils with special or inclusive needs including pupil progress

- Share procedural information, such as the school’s SEND policies

- Promote an ethos and culture that supports the school’s SEND policies and promotes good outcomes for all pupils.

- Lead and manage teaching assistants

- Lead staff appraisals and produce appraisal reports

- Review staff performance on an ongoing basis

- The Inclusion Manager will be required to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people, and follow school policies and the staff code of conduct.

- Engage fully with the Great Learners Trust and provision for SEND pupils

Professional Standards and Quality Assurance:

- Set a good example in terms of dress, punctuality and attendance

- Attend and participate in open evenings and student performances as requested by the Headteacher

- Keep yourself fully appraised and informed on recent legislative and policy changes, making reasonable adjustments to practise in school

- Ensure the highest standards of professional conduct, integrity, loyalty, discretion and confidentiality at all times

- Ensure the development of collaborative practice and a team culture to ensure that leadership practices are effective and all team members are demonstrating loyalty and integrity

- Maintain contact with external bodies including the Great Learners Trust and SEND advice clinics locally

- Undertake any professional responsibilities/duties which may be delegated from time to time by the Headteacher and/or Governing Board

Please note that this is illustrative of the general nature and level of responsibility of the role. It is not a comprehensive list of all tasks. The postholder may be required to do other duties appropriate to the level of the role, as directed by the Headteacher