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SENCO
Shavington Academy, Shavington, Cheshire, CW2 5DHThis job expired on 17 January 2025
Job start date
22 April 2025
Closing date
17 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
7 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday Term time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Salary Range £54,939 - £57,831
What skills and experience we're looking for
The post is advertised for an April 2025 start with a small teaching commitment. This is the opportunity to work with outstanding and good teachers across the Academy, who strive to be outstanding and to be part of teams that offer high quality teaching and leadership to shared schemes of work. Securing the very best candidate for this position is extremely important to us, to ensure that our SEN provision for both pupils in the main stream school, as well as in our recently opened Resource Provision is continually of the highest standard. The successful candidate will realise this through secure SEN knowledge, strong strategic leadership and direction, coupled with high levels of emotional intelligence and self-awareness when dealing with all stakeholders. For us, it is important that we appoint someone who is absolutely committed to our success and who is an exceptional professional, to contribute to our trajectory of improvement. In turn, we are committed to the professional development of our staff, and are able to offer high quality learning experiences, and other development opportunities.
What the school offers its staff
Shavington Academy has been a Multi Academy Trust since 1st September 2015 for pupils aged 11-16, serving the villages and conurbation to the South of Crewe. Our catchment includes Wistaston Church Lane, The Berkeley, Shavington, Weston and Wybunbury Delves Primary Schools, though we draw pupils from across Crewe and South Cheshire. Our current school population is 912 pupils; we have just completed a process of significant expansion, which will see our PAN increase to 1050 with a year group intake of 210 pupils. The academy’s growing reputation and a number of housing developments locally have attributed to the growth of the academy.
Commitment to safeguarding
Shavington Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The post is subject to an Enhanced DBS Disclosure
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About Shavington Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 875 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Shavington Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@shavington.academy
About Shavington Academy
Who we are
Shavington Academy has been a Multi Academy Trust since 1st September 2015 for pupils aged 11-16, serving the villages and conurbation to the South of Crewe. Our catchment includes Wistaston Church Lane, The Berkeley, Shavington, Weston and Wybunbury Delves Primary Schools, though we draw pupils from across Crewe and South Cheshire. Our current school population is 875 pupils; we are currently in a process of significant expansion, due for completion September 24 which will see our PAN increase to 1100 with a year group intake of 210 pupils. The academy’s growing reputation and a number of housing developments locally have attributed to the growth of the academy.
We are very proud of our Academy and believe that our mission statement ‘Together we enjoy, aspire, create and achieve’ underpins our ethos and our collective drive for all pupils both academically and personally. Here at Shavington, we value the ethical and moral development of our pupils, promoting integrity, kindness, gratitude, respect and tolerance across all elements of Academy life, as well as promoting academic success.
Our Academy has high aspirations for all of our pupils to enable them to achieve their potential and beyond. Pupils achieve well, above the national average across a range of subjects within the curriculum. We have an exceptional track record of preparing pupils for post 16 study, as well as the workplace and beyond. We pride ourselves on the Academy values that will enable our pupils to become a responsible member of our community, as well as preparing them for the diversity and demands of the modern-day world.
Professional development
All teachers have professional development opportunities, designed for their career point, and CPDL time is focused on need whether that is whole academy, departmental or at individual level.
We continually review our process and practice to consider the work life balance of our teachers – please see our ‘Staff Benefits’ document for this detail.
We are committed to supporting our Early Career Teachers through the accredited ECT framework and also deliver an ‘Aspiring Leaders’ Programme for third year teachers and beyond, moving on to ‘Middle Leadership’ and then ‘Senior Leadership’ as expertise and experience grow.
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