SEN & ALG Administrator
Harris Academy Clapham, London, SW4 8LDThis job expired on 10 April 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
September
Closing date
10 April 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
25 March 2024
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, term time: Actual salary £24,625-£24,998 (39 weeks per year, 37.5 hours per week)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £28,545-£28,977
Pay scale
- Grade 3 (Inner London)
Additional allowances
Performance and Loyalty Bonus + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Pension Scheme (LGPS) + Additional Harris Benefits
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and skilled SEN & ALG Administrator. This is part of the next wave of staff recruitment as our Academy grows and takes on its final cohort of students in September 2024, taking us to full capacity.
This is an excellent opportunity to work in a growing Academy, where you will be highly supported by both the Academy team and the wider Harris Federation. As the Academy grows to full capacity there is a wide range of opportunities for future career progression.
We would like to hear from you if you have:
- GCSE mathematics and English at grade C or above and relevant level 3 qualification
- Trained in the use of a variety of ICT packages
- Knowledge of procedures for entering data on a central management information system
- Basic training on Management Information Systems
- At least a year's experience working in school or educational establishment
- Experience of working in an inner city school
- Experience of working to targets and deadlines
For a full job description and person specification, please download the Job Pack.
What the school offers its staff
The vision of Harris Academy Clapham is a simple one. From our opening in September 2020, our academy is a place where ‘everything is possible'.
The Clapham curriculum is designed to meet the needs, aspirations and abilities of every one of our students. Our aim is to improve their life chances and enable them to make a positive contribution to the city and world in which they live.
At Harris Clapham, the curriculum is delivered through high-quality teaching. This is codified in our research-informed approach to pedagogy, which we call the Clapham Way.
Through the Clapham academic, enrichment and pastoral curriculum we expect our students to develop powerful knowledge and the following values and character attributes that will enable them to achieve our vision that ‘Everything is Possible'.
Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level.
In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions, a Wellbeing Cash Plan, electric car scheme, and many other benefits.
Further details about the role
Your responsibilities will include:
- Managing the SEN register, including updates of student information, input into Bromcom, IEP updates and EHCP administration
- Creating analyses of behaviour data of SEN students
- 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 and distributing accurate minutes of SEN team TA meetings
- Ordering all necessary resources for the SEN department
- Filing all paperwork pertaining to SEN students, ensuring copies are in student files after having been read and actioned by the SENCO
- Organising the timetables of SEN students receiving support from external agencies (e.g .SALT)
- Ensuring paperwork for SEN requirements is copied/replenished and accessible to relevant staff
- Ensuring accurate and timely communication with external stakeholders
- Organising marketing and catering for events/parent workshops or coffee mornings
- Assisting with SEN data analysis, provision maps and associated costing
- Assisting with creating Annual Review packs and High Needs funding packs
- General administrative support
- Sending a weekly bulletin to ALG and the SEN team summarising key issues and actions regarding SEN students
- Presenting a professional and welcoming face of the Academy to all visitors, staff and students, including telephone callers
- 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 that the SENCO is fully briefed on any matters raised via parental communication with the Academy
- Providing administrative support to Vice Principals
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.
About Harris Academy Clapham
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 582 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Harris Academy Clapham website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- info@harrisclapham.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0204 513 9350
The vision of Harris Academy Clapham is a simple one. From our opening in September 2020, our academy is a place where ‘everything is possible’.
The Clapham curriculum is designed to meet the needs, aspirations and abilities of individual students. Our aim is to improve their life chances and enable them to make a positive contribution to the city and world in which they live.
By this we mean that:
every student is supported to fully develop their academic and personal talents; we help students to go on and achieve their dreams and help others
we work with our families to support all our students, including those who have special educational needs and/or disabilities
we are a supportive part of the Lambeth community, working with our neighbours and others as best we can
every member of staff is supported in becoming the best that they can be, including their future career prospects and ambitions.
Through the Clapham academic, enrichment and pastoral curriculum we expect our students to develop powerful knowledge and the following values and character attributes that will enable them to achieve our vision that ‘Everything is Possible’:
Our key values
Endeavour for excellence
Learning to work hard and relish challenge.
Learning to never give up.
Learning to take sensible risks.
Learning to always strive for the best for themselves and each other.
Integrity and honesty
Always acting with kindness.
Treating others the way they would like to be treated.
Self-belief with a global view
Growing to have the agency to achieve their ambitions for themselves and the wider world.
A central core of our ethos is to fully develop students’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural wellbeing. We ensure that our students understand their role in making the academy and their community a safer and better place. We do this in a wide variety of ways, including after-school activities, during lessons, school visits and working with a range of external organisations such as local and national charities.
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