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Secondary SENDCo (Maternity Cover)
Reach Academy Feltham, Feltham, Middlesex, TW13 4AB14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025 or sooner if possible
Closing date
9 March 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
18 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time
Contract type
- Fixed term - Up to one year - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- Leadership Scale, commensurate with experience
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Unwavering belief in the vision and values of Reach Academy Feltham
- Excellent qualified teacher with a constant desire to improve
- Highly organised and attentive to detail
- Clear commitment to the development of the whole child
- Qualified SENDCo
- Proven ability to work in partnership with internal and external stakeholders
- Proven ability to motivate others towards an aspirational goal
What the school offers its staff
We care deeply about our entire team.
In order to take care of our students, we need to take care of one another. For this reason, Reach Schools offer great employee benefits throughout the year.
- Weekly instructional coaching: Professional development is important to us, so much so that we offer collaborative and non-hierarchical coaching in a fun and shame-free environment, every week.
- 10 inset days:To ensure outstanding staff training and provide time to deeply understand pupil data and plan for great outcomes.
- 5 days term time leave: We understand that accessing desired time off for teachers and school staff can be difficult. Throughout the year, we offer opportunities for team members to accrue term-time leave.
- Flexible Working: A diverse workforce with work-life balance is crucial for our school's stability. If you need to adjust your schedule for personal commitments or seek part-time or hybrid working, don’t hesitate to let us know.
- Enhanced maternity pay: Reach Schools value families and community relationships. For this reason, we aim to be a support system for staff who are on maternity leave.
- Free Friday breakfast: On Fridays we show our appreciation to one another as a staff team with encouraging shout-outs and delicious pastries.
Further details about the role
We are seeking an experienced SENDCo to support our AEN pupils and drive the department forward while our wonderful SENDCo is on maternity leave.
This role involves full oversight of the AEN provision from Years 7 - 13, close collaborative working with your primary colleague counterpart, the SEND administrator and ELSA and deployment of all Secondary Tutor Fellows.
You will need to quickly establish relationships with all stakeholders, including in the local authority and other schools.
You will sit on the Senior Leadership Team at Assistant Head level in this role.
Ideally you will also contribute to teaching in the secondary phases, leading by examples and demonstrating exceptional AEN practice.
Commitment to safeguarding
Reach Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the processwelfare of children and young people.
In order to meet this responsibility all candidates will be subjected to a
rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable
applicants.
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 Reach Academy Feltham
- School type
- Free School, ages 2 to 19
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 898 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Reach Academy Feltham website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@reachacademy.org.uk
Welcome to Reach Academy Feltham. Our staff are all driven by our mission to equip all of our pupils with the skills, attitudes and academic qualifications to enable them to go on to enjoy lives of choice and opportunity. Our school focuses on bringing together the whole community in a shared dedication to do whatever it takes to achieve successful outcomes for the children we all love and care for.
We have the highest academic expectations whilst maintaining a loving, family-focused culture. As the Co-Headteachers, and supported by our Senior Leadership Team, we aim to know every pupil as an individual, harnessing the power of family relationships and all-through knowledge, to ensure that we can tailor our curriculum, support and resources to meet each child's needs and desires.
Arranging a visit to Reach Academy Feltham
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@reachacademy.org.uk.
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