28 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    16 May 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    3 April 2025

Job details

Job role

  • SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time, part time: Full time: Monday-Friday 32.5 hours pw

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

MPS or UPS dependent on Experience

Additional allowances

SEN allowance

What skills and experience we're looking for

  • Education and Training

    • Qualified Teacher Status.

    • Degree or Equivalent.

    • National Award for Special Educational Needs Coordination (NASENCO) or equivalent NPQ

    • Specialist qualifications in SEN

    • Catholic Certificate in Religious Studies.

    • A commitment to further professional development.

  • Experience

    • Evidence of being an excellent classroom practitioner.

    • Experience of working in a Catholic School.

    • Experience of leading or assisting beyond the individual classroom.

    • Experience in inter-agency work.

    • Experience in EHCP applications.

  • Faith Commitment

    • Practising Catholic or demonstrates an understanding and commitment to the ethos and distinctive nature of a Catholic school.

    • Commitment to participate in the faith life of the community.

  • Knowledge and Understanding

    • A working knowledge and understanding of:

    • Current practices and strategic developments in primary education.

    • A working knowledge of the requirements of the National Curriculum.

    • Strategies to promote effective Learning and Teaching.

    • Strategies to develop children’s phonic and reading skills.

    • Understand and use assessment and record keeping as a means of planning for differentiated Teaching and Learning.

    • The statutory requirements of legislation concerning Child Protection/Safeguarding requirements and the Teacher Standards.

    • Understanding of relevant legislation: SEN Code of Practice, equal opportunities, and disability discrimination legislation.

    • Knowledge of interventions and their application:

    • A working knowledge and understanding of how Religious Education is taught in a Catholic School.

    • A broad range of interests and a commitment to providing a rich curriculum experience for the children.

  • Skills and Abilities

    • Will:

    • Have high expectations of attainment and behaviour.

    • Be an excellent communicator with good organisational and interpersonal skills and the ability to work as part of a team.

    • Be confident in the use of ICT to support learning.

    • Excellent communication skills.

    • Ability to liaise with all stakeholders, including education and medical professionals, governors, and parents.

    • Ability to provide a clear vision and direction for inclusive practice.

  • Personal Attributes

    • Will be:

    • Willing to share ideas, energy and initiative.

    • Enthusiastic and excited about teaching children.

    • Committed to school improvement and raising pupil achievement.

    • Committed to an inclusive education.

    • A team player, keen to engage in all aspects of the life of our school.

    • Committed to working with parents and the wider community.

    • Evidence of ongoing professional development.

    What the school offers its staff

    Following the promotion of the current post holder, St Fidelis is seeking to appoint a new SENCO to determine the strategic development and ensure the delivery of the school’s special educational needs provision across this two form entry school with nursery in the London Borough of Bexley.

    The school’s new SENCO will work as part of the wider senior leadership team in this non-class based role, supported on a day to day basis by a dedicated admin assistant.

    You will be dedicated to ensuring that all our children- EHCPs, SEN and those pupils who might need short term support, receive the very best education possible, both within and beyond their classrooms.

    You may already hold NPQ for SENCO, but if not, the school will be as committed as you are to achieving this qualification within three years of your appointment.

    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

    Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to mhannon1.303@st-fidelis.bexley.sch.uk

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    Additional documents

    If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

    SENCO Person Specification (1).pdf - 61.6 KB (opens in new tab)
    SENCO Job Description (1).pdf - 66.3 KB (opens in new tab)

    About St Fidelis Catholic Primary School

    School type
    Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 3 to 11
    Education phase
    Primary
    School size
    458 pupils enrolled
    Age range
    3 to 11
    Ofsted report
    View Ofsted report
    School website
    St Fidelis Catholic Primary School website
    Email address
    scrumley.303@st-fidelis.bexley.sch.uk
    Phone number
    01322 337752
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    teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-fidelis-catholic-primary-school

    St Fidelis is a successful and popular school. Integral to the school’s success is a determination to only recruit staff of the highest calibre. There is an expectation that our children only deserve our very best.

    St Fidelis is a highly rewarding place to work. Staff are developed and supported in order to be the very best that they can be. Over the last three and a half years teachers within our school have been developed to take on senior leadership roles both within and beyond the school. There has been one appointed to headship, four to deputy headship and three to assistant headship. This is as a consequence of the career opportunities the school offers and the high regard that staff from St Fidelis are held in by colleagues from other schools.

    Arranging a visit to St Fidelis Catholic Primary School

    To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email scrumley.303@st-fidelis.bexley.sch.uk.

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