Lead SEND Practitioner
Acland Burghley School, London, NW5 1UJThis job expired on 21 January 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
21 January 2025 at 9am
Date listed
17 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 35 hours per week, 40 weeks per year
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- PO1point 28 £37,872
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking to appoint an exceptional Lead SEND Practitioner (LSP) from February 2025to join our Additional Educational Needs Faculty. LSPs lead on an area of SEND from theCode of Practice. This post will focus especially on students who experience barriers to learning through their communication and interaction, or social, emotional and mental health needs.
The successful candidate will already be a highly effective teaching assistant, with experience of making impact on the progress of children with SEND in their current setting. You will have an excellent understanding of the ways that accurate assessment, planned support and teamwork all help students overcome their SEMH needs.
You will have a track record of enabling SEND students to succeed. You will perhaps have reached a ceiling in your current role, and will be looking for the next challenge in your career as a SEND professional.
Our AEN Faculty team is growing in strength and effectiveness every year. We pride ourselves on our inclusive ethos. We have a specialist resourced provision (‘The Base’) for 20 students with EHCPs for ASC, and are a Hub for the Autism Education Trust. In addition, we have an excellent record of supporting students who require support for their C&I and SEMH needs. We embrace trauma informed practice throughout the school.
The new postholder will be the key worker for targeted students, and will support others to provide high quality interventions, drawing on their experience and expertise, and by modelling effective practice.
You will be a highly effective communicator and a reliable team player. As a core part of your role, you will develop a confident understanding of the curriculum, and work with faculty teams to support interventions and share responsibility for student outcomes. You will have a desire to progress professionally and personally within the role. You will work effectively with other LSPs, the SENDCo and his team of SEND leaders, as well as working closely with the Inclusion Team, and our large group of Teaching and Learning Assistants.
What the school offers its staff
Situated close to Hampstead Heath in the heart of North London, Acland Burghley is a mixed, inclusive, community comprehensive school that enjoys high levels of parental support and a close collaborative relationship with other local schools. In September 2020, we entered into a partnership with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, who are resident on our site. They run regular workshops for all students, including special projects for students with SEND. We are part of the popular and highly successful LaSWAP post-16 consortium with Parliament Hill, La Sainte Union and William Ellis Schools, and a founder member of Camden Learning. We were confirmed as a ‘good’ school by Ofsted in October 2023.
Above all, applicants should demonstrate an uncompromising belief in the potential of every student, and a desire to place excellent SEND provision at the school’s creative and inclusive heart. If you share our passion for ensuring high standards for all, and have the ambition to be part of an exciting future for young people in our school, we would very much like to hear from you.
Commitment to safeguarding
Acland Burghley School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS Check, online vetting check and to demonstrate full understanding of the school’s safeguarding policies and procedures.
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About Acland Burghley School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1166 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Acland Burghley School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@aclandburghley.camden.sch.uk
Situated close to Hampstead Heath in the heart of North London, Acland Burghley is a mixed, inclusive, community comprehensive school that enjoys high levels of parental support and a close collaborative relationship with other local schools. It is part of the popular and highly successful LaSWAP post-16 consortium with Parliament Hill, La Sainte Union and William Ellis Schools, and a founder member of Camden Learning.
Arranging a visit to Acland Burghley School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@aclandburghley.camden.sch.uk.
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