SENCO/Class Teacher 2 days per week (0.4)
Seven Fields Primary School, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN2 5DE3 days remaining to apply
Start date details
6th January 2025
Closing date
27 November 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
19 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,650.00 - £43,607.00 Annually (FTE) Sen Allowance £2,679 to £5,285 depending on experience
SENCO/Class Teacher 2 days per week (0.4) job summary
An opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and experienced teacher to cover the role of SENDCo at our supportive school.
The working pattern will be 2 days per week (0.4), days to be confirmed. Your primary responsibilities as SENDCo will be to support early identification of special needs, coordinate learning plans, be proactive in applying for funding, improve the provision for SEND pupils and manage EHCPs.
The role will require excellent communication skills to ensure effective and close working with parents and carers. In addition the successful applicant will need to liaise with teaching assistants, feeder pre-school settings and external agencies to support the inclusion of children across our primary schools.
You will be passionate, with a comprehensive understanding of children with additional needs, child development and safeguarding. Further training will be available.
The successful candidate:
We are looking to appoint an outstanding and dedicated SENDCo who can support the school’s community as it continues to grow.
In this role your key tasks and responsibilities will be:
Must be a qualified teacher (QTS)
Experience of being a SENDCo is essential, must be willing to undertake training / support from the RLT
Be committed to working effectively with parents and carers to get the best outcomes for pupils.
Be able to plan & evaluate interventions.
To attend any INSET which falls within normal working hours
To keep up to date with meeting minutes and briefing notes
Strategic leadership and development of SEN across the school
Being responsible for day-to-day operation of SEN policy and coordination of specific provision to support individual pupils with SEN or a disability
Monitoring the provision and progress of SEN, EAL, AGAT and looked after children
Provide professional guidance to colleagues, working closely with staff, parents and other agencies
Taking part in senior leadership meetings
Managing the Teaching Assistants to deliver intervention programmes and 1:1 support
Liaising with parent groups at the school
Contributing to the wider school life and the school’s core values and ethos
If you are passionate about making a positive impact on the lives of our children with SEND and their families and have the experience to manage a wide range of special needs in an educational setting, we would love to hear from you.
Education has the power to change lives, communities and society for the better. At RLT we believe that we can achieve more for our pupils, trainees, staff and communities by working together rather than alone. Schools in RLT are united by a common belief in the benefits of working together, and by our commitment to shared principles.
OUR VISION is for our schools and SCITT to improve rapidly, continuously and sustainably: to be better faster together.
OUR ‘WHY?’ is that children and young people ‘only get one go’ in school and therefore as part of RLT we aim to ensure the best possible ‘go’ for our pupils.
OUR ‘HOW?’ is through the highest support and challenge for our schools and each other, underpinned by our principles.
Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff. For more information on what it is like to work for the Trust, and the benefits you could access, please see our “Working in RLT” guide.
This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
The school reserves the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate. An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.
The River Learning Trust and Seven Fields Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates. Please see our website for up to date policies including our Child Protection and Behaviour Policies.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Seven Fields Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 274 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Seven Fields Primary School website (opens in new tab)
Seven Fields school is a friendly school which strives to ensure that all children have a warm, safe and caring environment within which to learn.
Our school is a place where everyone is included and valued. We believe that all children have a voice and should be listened to. We are proud that all our pupils enjoy coming to school and that they know that their education and achievement is at the centre of everything we do.
We prepare children to be lifelong learners with a sense of enquiry and a drive to succeed. We encourage children to work together to enjoy their learning and we support them as they aspire to take risks and achieve personal progress.
We aim to create a learning environment where everyone can celebrate success, people show respect for one another and where children care for their learning environment.
In our school we want everyone to feel good about themselves and how they are growing to become future members of the wider community, with aspirations for their own future and clear goals to achieve success.
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