SEN Administrator
Harris Academy Rainham, Rainham, Essex, RM13 9XD6 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September
Closing date
9 July 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
2 July 2024
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, term time: Actual salary £18,575-£18,856 (39 weeks per year, 30 hours per week)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,030-£27,438
Pay scale
- Grade 3 (Outer London)
Additional allowances
Performance and Loyalty Bonus + Pension Scheme (LGPS) + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Additional Harris Benefits
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a dedicated and detail-orientated individual to join Harris Academy Rainham as SEN Administrative Assistant. Working under the instruction and guidance of senior staff to provide general administrative and financial support to the SEN Department, you will either have experience in an administrative role or in a SEN Department.
We would like to hear from you if you have:
- NVQ2 or equivalent qualification or experience in relevant discipline
- Good numeracy/literacy skills
- Minimum of two years' school office experience
- Experience of general clerical/administrative/financial work
- Knowledge of safeguarding procedures for young people
- Experience of Reception duties including dealing with visitors to the Academy
For a full job description and person specification, please download the Job Pack.
What the school offers its staff
Harris Academy Rainham is a very popular and oversubscribed 11-16 academy which is part of the Harris Federation. We joined the Federation in September 2016 and there are exciting times ahead.
What makes us different:
- Our values are at the centre of our school and aren't simply a slogan on a website.
- We have a firm but fair approach to behaviour. This is built on the use of consistent routines and teaching our students how to behave.
- We deliver a knowledge rich curriculum that is developed by our staff to meet the needs of our students. The knowledge we teach takes our students beyond their everyday experiences and enables them to see the world differently.
- Our leaders are role models, they lead by example, admit mistakes, welcome opinions and love honest conversations.
- We are a staff united against educational disadvantage with a fierce determination to show our students the world beyond Havering.
What we can do for you:
- Great career progression both within our Academy and the Federation.
- Excellent professional development opportunities. As a Leading edge school we have been recognised as being at the forefront of educational thinking and research is central to all we do.
- Meaningful measures to manage workload – no graded observations, early finish on a Friday, no onerous marking requirements but sensible feedback policies.
- Bespoke support and line management from excellent leaders across the school.
- Opportunities for fantastic professional growth as the school develops a sixth from.
- A school where subjects are ‘front and centre' of all we do. The subject determines our pedagogy.
Further details about the role
Your responsibilities will include:
- Managing the SEN register under the direction from the SENCO, including all updates of student information, input into Bromcom, IEP updates and EHCP administration
- Creating analyses of behaviour data of SEN students from the statistics created by the behaviour team
- Under the direction of the SENCO, managing the update of One Notes/ IEPs to ensure that records are accurate and up-to-date and that staff have access as appropriate
- Keeping minutes of all SEN team meetings and SEN TA meetings
- Managing ordering of all necessary resources for the SEN department
- Managing the filing of all paperwork pertaining to SEN students
- Organising the timetables of SEN students receiving support from external agencies (e.g SALT)
- Ensuring that all necessary paperwork for SEN requirements is copied/replenished and accessible to relevant staff
- Ensuring that all communication with external stakeholders is completed accurately and in a timely fashion
- Organising marketing for events
- Assisting the SENCO withdata analysis
- To assist the SENCO to create Annual Review packs and High needs funding packs
- General administrative support to SENCO
- Presenting a professional and welcoming face of the Academy to all visitors, staff and students
- Managing queries from parents/ carers and the general public with exemplary professionalism
- Maintaining an exemplary professional environment at all times
- Exercising complete discretion when dealing with issues of confidentiality and sensitivity
- Ensuring the SENCO is fully briefed on any matters that has been brought to attention via parental communication with the Academy
- Providing administrative support to Vice Principals as required
- Providing TA support in classrooms
Commitment to safeguarding
The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.
Applying for the job
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About Harris Academy Rainham
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 896 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Harris Academy Rainham website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- info@harrisrainham.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01708 552811
At Harris Academy Rainham we hold that our academy should provide students with a deep sense of belonging to a caring community, the belief in themselves and their unbounded potential and the opportunities to become more than they thought was possible. These are the values that we hold to be true and that drive our academy forward. Harris Academy Rainham joined the Harris Federation (a not-for-profit charity with 25 years of experience in education) in September 2016. In joining Harris, we have become part of a family of happy and highly successful primary and secondary schools in London and Essex and have the benefit of a team of experts in education who can provide teachers and leaders at Harris Rainham with a great deal of focused support. We teach in mixed ability groups, except in maths, which is divided into sets. Where students need extra help, our teachers coach them in small groups or provide one to one support. Special educational needs are catered for with care and expertise.
Academy Ethos:
We combine the traditional Harris values of excellent uniform, behaviour and manners with a modern approach to teaching and learning. Working closely with families to ensure that students are supported and nurtured, we work hard every day to make learning accessible to all of our students.
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