SENCO
West Park CofE Primary (Controlled) School, Worthing, West Sussex, BN12 4HDThis job expired on 21 May 2025
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
21 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
19 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Main Scale or UPS up to £49,084 (pay award pending)
Additional allowances
SEN Allowance £2679 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
SENCO
SENCo (TMS/UPS) plus SEN 1 £2679
“Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it...”
Wilfred Peterson
Passionate about Education? Exceptional Inclusion Leader or SENCO?
Are you an innovative and reflective SEND practitioner who has made a difference? Are you looking for an exciting opportunity? Join our team of dedicated professionals in our large primary school. We also have 2 Special Support bases, for pupils with Social Communication needs and Physical Disabilities with a purpose built extension which includes a new sensory room and garden.
Due to retirement we are looking to appoint a SENCO to work alongside our Teacher in Charge of our SSC, Pastoral Manager and Behaviour and Emotional Support Team. The successful candidate will join the Senior Management Team in ensuring high quality provision for pupils with SEND, raising standards across the school and enabling all pupils to achieve good outcomes. We would expect the successful candidate to have completed the NPQSEN or National SENCO Award qualification or be prepared to complete this within the first two years of joining us.
The successful candidate will be required to:
- Advocate for our pupils
- Manage a well-trained and enthusiastic team of LSA and SSA SEND staff
- Encourage continuous professional development
- Foster excellent working relationships with staff, parents, and carers
- Be an effective member of the Senior Management Team
- Make a difference to pupils’ provision in the classroom on a daily basis.
The successful candidate will need to:
- Have the confidence, skills and abilities to manage SEND provision throughout the school
- Be able to inspire, challenge and motivate all pupils to achieve
- Promote and celebrate the talents and skills of all pupils
- Have high expectations of learning, progress and behaviour
- Ability to use initiative to work flexibly
- Have a commitment to working strategically as part of a team to improve standards of teaching and learning especially through adaptation
West Park is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and expects all its staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The post is subject to a full DBS check.
Telephone calls, questions and emails are encouraged and visits to the school are welcomed. Please contact the school office to arrange. We would love to discuss the role with you in more detail. To arrange a visit please contact Claire Watkins Assistant to the Leadership Team 01903 243099.
Please send your application to Caitriona Bull, Headteacher.
Published: 14/5/25
Closing date: 21/5/25
Interview date:23/5/25
What the school offers its staff
About the role
We will be seeking a full-time experienced practitioner who is fully conversant with the Code of Practice 2014 and has an understanding of the requirements, can demonstrate knowledge of a good range of programmes and interventions, has good communication skills and is sensitive to the needs of the pupils and their parents/carers. The candidate must also be up to date with the new National Curriculum.
We can offer you:
- “all pupils, including disadvantaged pupils and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), achieve well.” Ofsted March 2025
- A positive, caring Christian ethos with pupils and learning at the heart of all we do
- Happy pupils who are enthusiastic, motivated, and engaged learners
- A dedicated, friendly and supportive staff
- An Inclusion team to work within (the team is overseen by an Inclusion Leader and includes a Pastoral Manager, designated Teacher in Charge (TIC) of the special support base, SEN SSAs, LSAs and a Behaviour and Emotional Support Team)
- A school team committed to your professional development with proven success
- An excellent learning environment and resources
- Good relationships with parents, carers, and the wider community
- A leadership team that works to continuously improve and enable everyone to flourish
- The successful candidate will join our Senior Management Team
- A fantastic setting, close to the beach with large green spaces in our grounds.
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About West Park CofE Primary (Controlled) School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 816 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- West Park CofE Primary (Controlled) School website
- Email address
- office@westparksch.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01903 243099
West Park C.E. Primary School is a 4FE Primary with 800 pupils on role.
We have two SSC's one for children with Physical Disabilities and one for children with Communication and Interaction Needs.
Arranging a visit to West Park CofE Primary (Controlled) School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email office@westparksch.co.uk.
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