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SEND Leader

Adderley Primary School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B8 1DZ

3 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  2 September 2024

• Closing date

  10 May 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  25 April 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 26 hours per week Monday - Thursday
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: MPS/UPS

What skills and experience we're looking for

Key Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Qualified Teacher Status - essential
• Teaching experience in a relevant setting with evidence of delivering high quality inclusive teaching and learning
• Strong commitment to raising educational attainment for pupils with SEND
• Up-to-date knowledge on identifying and support pupils with SEND
• Understanding of evidence based, best practice strategies and interventions to improve access to all lessons for pupils with SEND
• National Award for Special Educational Needs Coordination (NASENCO) essential
• Excellent, effective communication skills; oral and written
• Ability to build and maintain good productive working relationships with colleagues

• Good coaching, influencing and negotiating skills that demonstrate empathy and emotional intelligence;

• Ability to assess, analyse and problem solve and actively contribute to raising performance of pupils with SEND
• Good organisation and time management skills
• Ability to quality assure provision including carrying out effective lesson observations
• Understanding of budgets including budget monitoring, costed provision mapping and deployment of the SEN notional budgets

• Ability to effectively allocate resources including additional adults to support pupils with SEND to achieve best outcomes
• Ability to motivate and inspire confidence in pupils, staff, parents and the wider community in order to further develop and promote the school.
• ICT and its effective use as a management tool as well as across the curriculum to enhance teaching and learning

What the school offers its staff

We can offer you:

• A unique opportunity to be part of a vibrant, forward-thinking school.
• An opportunity to be part of a highly supporting Strategic Leadership Team.
• A welcoming and supportive Governing Body.
• Extremely well-mannered children that demonstrate a thirst for learning.
• Excellent, coaching and opportunities for professional and career development.
• A committed and supportive Governing Body who are dedicated to school improvement.
• An established curriculum, which you will be able to develop with support and guidance.

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

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Please complete the online application.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Adderley Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 453 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Adderley Primary School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: enquiry@adderley.bham.sch.uk
• Phone number: 0121 464 1500
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/adderley-primary-school (opens in new tab)

Arranging a visit to Adderley Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email enquiry@adderley.bham.sch.uk.

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