SENCO Administrative Assistant and Lead First Aider - Full Time TTO + 2 SDD
The Charles Dickens School, Broadstairs, Kent, CT10 2RL14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
20 October 2025 at 9am
Date listed
6 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week, term time only, plus 2 Staff Development Days.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- BCAT Range 5.1 - 5.4, £21,575-£22,438 (£25,252-£26,262 FTE)
What skills and experience we're looking for
SENCo Assistant & Lead First Aider should have:
• Good numeracy and literacy skills (GCSE English and Maths or equivalent).
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent ICT skills. Word, Excel, E-mail, Internet
• High level of professionalism and can maintain confidentiality
• Knowledge of policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety, SEND, equal opportunities
• Very good interpersonal skills
• Work under pressure
• Meet Deadlines
• Organised
• Take initiative
• Flexible
Desirable
• Advanced First Aid Qualification or a First Aid at Work Qualification
• Experience of working in a school
• Experience in administrative/SEND work
• Accurate, fast and efficient typist
What the school offers its staff
The School has excellent facilities. All rooms are equipped with state-of-the art electronic interactive whiteboards. There are excellent specialist facilities for sport, hospitality, engineering, dance, drama, music and art. We have a Specialist Resource Provision for visually-impaired children. We offer and value a broad curriculum aimed at promoting talent beyond traditional academic subjects. Our significant investment in professional development drives colleagues’ continuous improvement. This is a place where everyone improves regardless of their career stage.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
In line with KCSIE 2022 guidance, part of the shortlisting process, the Trust reserves the right to conduct an online search on shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence and any relevant information found concerning a candidate's suitability to work with children will be discussed at interview stage.
The Charles Dickens School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application via the Disclosure & Barring Service and check against the ISA Barred List for Children.
Applying for the job
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About The Charles Dickens School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1113 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Charles Dickens School website
- Email address
- recruitment@bartoncourt.org
The Charles Dickens School is a rapidly-improving, non-selective 11-18 school located in Broadstairs, Kent. We have a vision and a determination to provide our community with an excellent school and we are making great strides towards this. Our results in 2022 identify us as the most improved school in Kent (out of 101 secondary schools) and one of the most improved schools in the country. The School achieved a "Good" rating in their Ofsted inspection in March 2023.
To work here is to embrace the challenges of an economically-diverse community and understand the influence education has in addressing social immobility. There are few schools in the country where a teacher’s ability to change lives is so evident. Without hyperbole, this is a career-defining mission. We’re looking for brilliant people to join us on our journey.
The School has excellent facilities. All rooms are equipped with state-of-the art electronic interactive whiteboards. There are excellent specialist facilities for sport, hospitality, engineering, dance, drama, music and art. We have a Specialist Resource Provision for visually-impaired children. We offer and value a broad curriculum aimed at promoting talent beyond traditional academic subjects. Our significant investment in professional development drives colleagues’ continuous improvement. This is a place where everyone improves regardless of their career stage.
The Charles Dickens School is part of Barton Court Academy Trust, a small, ambitious Trust which also comprises a high achieving grammar school and another non-selective school which opened in September 2022.
Arranging a visit to The Charles Dickens School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@bartoncourt.org.
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