SEND Lead Teacher

Bungay Primary School, Bungay, Suffolk, NR35 1HA

Deadline is today

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  15 May 2025 at 1pm

• Date listed

  2 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £31,650.00 Annually (FTE) MPS / UPS with TLR 2 (Rates shown are Sept 24-25)

SEND Lead Teacher job summary

SEND Lead Teacher (Small group specialist unit) Bungay Primary School Full Time Fixed Term Initially for 2 years. We will consider a secondment for one year from ASSET Candidates

Job Description

You will lead a group of Reception and KS1 pupils who join the Flourish campus at Bungay. These pupils will be placed due to their special educational needs via the local authority panels. You will plan and deliver outstanding cross curricular opportunities whilst fostering a nurturing environment with high expectations that enables pupils to flourish, and build the foundations to be a successful member of society.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead the group with integrity and passion; creating a nurturing, communication rich environment whereby both staff and pupils flourish

• Embed an ethos of aspiration, high expectation, low threat whereby staff model expectation through positive interactions with pupils and their families

• Model excellent communication and interaction with pupils and their families and positive behaviour management strategies; ensuring behaviour expectations are understood by all

• Plan, coordinate, and deliver effective provision in relation to section F of pupils’ EHC plans and individual development needs

• Management of Pupil Profiles (IEPs); ensuring pupils development is well planned and tracked

• Plan and deliver an engaging, accessible curriculum so that children make progress from their starting points and are ready for the next stage of their educational and personal journey

• Monitor the impact of the curriculum and track performance data to plan next steps, measure progress, challenge staff and pupils

• Work closely with external agencies to ensure that provision is of the highest quality and that staff knowledge and training is up-to-date

• Work closely with the SENDCo to support EHCP annual reviews, PEPs, transition, referrals, etc.

• Work closely with families and carers; building positive and effective relationships that support pupils to feel safe, secure and make progress

• Liaise with the Trust Head of Inclusion, other Flourish and ASSET specialist unit leads and staff to ensure a consistent approach, share best practice and create a network of professional support

  ASSET Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

  The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the job description and will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and children's barred list check, health check, online search and satisfactory references. Copies of our safeguarding and safer recruitment policies are available on request.

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 Bungay Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 186 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Bungay Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bungay-primary-school

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