SENCo
Sandy Lane Primary School, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 2JG9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
24 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
4 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: 32.5hrs per week /52.143 weeks per year fulltime or 0.8hrs 26hrs per week per week would be considered
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Salary calculated in line with Teacher’s Pay Scale for England Main/Upper Pay Scale + SEN Allowance
Additional allowances
SEN Allowance
What skills and experience we're looking for
This is an exciting opportunity to join GLT / Sandy Lane Primary School as a SENCo. You will be responsible for inspiring and motivating the school community to develop effective ways of overcoming barriers to learning and promoting effective teaching and learning for children with specific needs. You'll be an experienced teacher with a passion for supporting pupils with special educational needs. Working closely with the Headship team and other senior colleagues, you will be a strategic leader of SEND provision, manage day-to-day provision and support teachers and support staff to deliver strong outcomes for all children.
Greenshaw Learning Trust is a highly successful multi academy trust that provides excellent quality, comprehensive, non-selective and inclusive education through primary schools and secondary schools. Our schools are based in London, Surrey, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth. We also have three shared service hubs with remote / hybrid working opportunities where appropriate. We are building a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing their own distinctive character. We thrive from collaboration at every level. We encourage a culture of sharing ideas and learning from one another. As a Trust of schools, we are ‘Always Learning’.
To get a feel of life at Greenshaw Learning Trust, please download our ‘Why you should work for GLT’ recruitment brochure on our jobs portal.
Main responsibilities to include:
To be a strategic leader of and actively champion inclusion across the school;
To provide professional development and support to colleagues across the school to secure the best possible outcomes for all children;
To take responsibility for the identification and monitoring/review/evaluation of the SEN needs within the school;
To regularly review the identification and placement of pupils with SEN on the SEN Register;
To ensure that appropriate information regarding the pupils’ SEN and support strategies are shared with all staff;
To review, refine and implement SEND and related policies to ensure best provision for our pupils.
Provide strategic leadership for the Specialist Resource Provision by identifying the strategic development and working in partnership, where appropriate, with Bracknell Forest Council.
Oversee the provision within the Specialist Resource Provision and line manage the teacher-in-charge of the Specialist Resource Provision.
You will need:
Degree or recognised qualification
Qualified Teacher Status
SENCo qualification (desirable) and/or commitment to engaging with NPQ SENCO (essential)
Evidence of training, experience and continuous professional development relevant to the post
What the school offers its staff
A supportive ethos and concern for the well-being of all colleagues
Excellent CPD opportunities and career progression
Employer contributions to Teachers Pension Scheme
Access to Blue Light Card Scheme
Access to Teacher Art Pass Scheme (teaching staff only)
Cycle to Work scheme
Gym membership scheme
Employee Assistance Programme
Free eye tests
Car benefit scheme
My Health discounts
Being part of a great team and expanding organisation
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
About Sandy Lane Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 450 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Sandy Lane Primary School website
- Email address
- sbm@sandylanebracknell.com
- Phone number
- 01344423896
Sandy Lane Primary School is a large primary school based in Bracknell, Berkshire and is a popular two form entry school. We are a proud member of the Greenshaw Learning Trust, a ‘family’ of like-minded schools that collaborate to provide mutual support, share good practice, and learn from each other while retaining and developing their own distinctive character. Greenshaw Learning Trust has at its heart effective collaboration and the sharing of the very best practice not only throughout the organisation, but across and with other like-minded educational organisations, further improving the life chances of as many young people as possible.
We are ambitious about diversity and inclusion and very much look forward to receiving applications from candidates whose personal qualities and values reflect those in the person specification and whose experiences also place them in a strong position to deliver the challenges set out in the job description. We encourage applications from candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, marital status, religion, belief, or race.
Arranging a visit to Sandy Lane Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email sbm@sandylanebracknell.com.
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