SENCO

Walderslade School, Chatham, Kent, ME5 0LE

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Easter 2025

• Closing date

  3 January 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  12 December 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Special Education Needs (SEN)
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £31,650.00 - £49,084.00 Annually (FTE) MPS/ UPS £31,650 - £49,084 + TLR 1C and Welcome Payment of £2,000

SENCO job summary

You will be passionate about ensuring equality of opportunity for any child with SEND, removing any barriers to progress and wellbeing and ensuring that all students have the support to achieve their dreams.

Our current SENCo has driven up the standards in SEN since our Ofsted report in February 2023. SEN is a place of support, calmness, understanding and highly skilled Teaching assistants. Within the department are ELSA, MELSA, HLTA and social skills specialists. Our skilled staff deliver interventions from handwriting to precision teaching.

Our SEN provision supports students with anxiety to hearing impairment, from ADHD to school refusal. Approximately 23% of the Walderslade students access a form of SEN support. 8.9% of the students in the Walderslade provision are officially on the SEN register, however a far larger representation of students have diagnosed or undiagnosed needs.

SENCO is a key position and involves working closely with students and their families, supporting students in school and working with external agencies.

The successful candidate will be

• Passionate about improving the outcomes for children
• Have a strong understanding of secondary special educational needs and the issues which affect out students' wellbeing
• Knowledge and understanding of the barriers faced by SEND students
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and planning skills
  

In return, we will offer you:

• an incredibly supportive group of colleagues and leaders
• comprehensive induction programme with a commitment to CPD
• Care First employee assistance programme
• non-contributory membership of Benenden private health care cover
• membership of the Teachers’/Local Government Pension Scheme
• two-week half term in October
• cycle to work scheme

For further details on this role and to apply please complete an application form which can be found on the school’s careers page Our Vacancies | The Walderslade & Greenacre Schools Partnership

Visits to the school are strongly encouraged. For further information and to arrange a school visit, please contact Louise Campbell on 01634 861593 or via email campl313@wgsp.org.uk

We reserve the right to bring forward the closing date where interest and applications received are high, therefore we encourage early applications

Safeguarding commitment

Beyond Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All post holders in a regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory "Disclosing and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced check".

Equality & Inclusivity Statement

At Beyond Schools Trust we strive to be a diverse and inclusive workplace where we can ALL be ourselves. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented communities, including but not limited to those who identify as Black, Asian or from a minority ethnic background.

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Walderslade School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: Up to 949 pupils
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/walderslade-school (opens in new tab)

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