SEND Support Base Leader
The Bishop of Winchester Academy, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH8 9PW26 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
15 August 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
18 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Special Education Needs (SEN)
Working pattern
- Full time, part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- Actual £23,759 (Full Time Equivalent: £28,387 per annum (Pay review pending))
SEND Support Base Leader job summary
Following a strategic review of Academy priorities, we are seeking to enhance and develop our SEN Team. We are seeking to recruit a number of key roles to build upon already good foundations and strengthen further, capability and effectiveness of SEN support within the Academy. We are seeking an experienced SEND Support Base Leader, manage the SEND Base within the academy.
This is an important role to assist the academy work closely with the SENCo and help deliver a full range of provision for students, as having complex neurodivergent difficulties. The SEN Team play a crucial role in Complementing the professional work of teachers by taking responsibility for agreed learning activities / curriculum area under an agreed system of supervision, under the direction of a qualified SENco.
This role will be on a 37 hours per week, term time only (39 weeks)
Salary: Actual £23,759 (Full Time Equivalent: £28,387 per annum (Pay review pending) TBOWA Support Staff Scale 23
We would be delighted to welcome you on a tour of the academy and answer any questions that you may have, prior to applying.
As SEND Support Base Leader, you will be welcomed into an exceptional team of professionals to:
- To support the management and development of a specialist area within the academy providing support to students with special needs and / or supervising students not working to a normal timetable.
- To aid the development of the SEND Base student’s independence by providing transitional support for students moving into, through, and out of the SEND Base. Planning and delivering excellent intervention for our students within the SEND base, as well as planning preparing learning activities for these students within that aligns with our mastery curriculum.
- To contribute to the identification and execution of appropriate out of academy learning activities, which consolidate and extend work carried out in class.
- To provide targets for students based on their ‘Education Health and Care Plan’ or SEND profile, supporting and preparing work schedules for homework support held at the SEND Base
- To amend and extend student profiles or IEPs in light of the review process.
- To provide Information, Advice & Guidance (IAG) and support to class teachers and learning support staff, as well as to parents and students.
- To assist the teacher with the development of in-class support including adaptive teaching, differentiation, behavior and social interaction.
- To monitor student attendance and work with families of SEND base students, to ensure attendance guidelines are met.
- To provide pastoral support to students with SEND so that they are fully included in the mainstream provision of the academy.
- To provide First Aid when required and to ensure all accident/treatment documentation are completed accurately.
- To monitor and report on students’ progress and attainment, by liaising with the students class teacher’s
- To assist the academy with the development and implementation of policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection.
The successful candidate will:
- Have experience in working with neurodivergent students
- Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills maintaining the ability to remain calm, patient and supportive in challenging situations, to liaise with colleagues; parents, guardians, carers; other professionals and the wider community.
- Be passionate about supporting young people
- They must work closely with the SENCo to help deliver a full range of provision for students, that have complex neurodivergent difficulties
- Have a willingness to work as part of a team and adapt to the needs of students
- Have a relevant university degree family support, childcare or sports/coaching - all really transferable skills. Or have relevant experience with working with SEN students.
- Have a calm and professional presence in challenging situations
The Bishop of Winchester Academy is a thriving Church of England school, recently recognised by Ofsted as prioritising ‘wider opportunities alongside achievement so that pupils “live life to the full.”’ (Ofsted 2023). Operating from recently refurbished facilities, our shared mission to improve the life chances of all of our students is at the very centre of our work.
We put the welfare of our staff at the heart of everything we do and can offer you:
- Generous employer pension contribution at 23.6% of basic salary equating to £5,607 per annum
- Career development with a bespoke CPD programme, with a generous number of INSET days.
- Excellent teaching and office facilities with free onsite parking and good local public transport links
- Employee Assistance Programme and Cycle to Work scheme
- Free breakfast and soup for lunch provided
To apply for this SEND Support Base Leader role, please visit the vacancies section of our website to complete an application form: https://www.tbowa.org/staff/-vacancies/support-staff
Please email completed application forms to recruitment@tbowa.org, addressing your covering letter to Mr Paul McKeown, Principal.
The Bishop of Winchester Academy is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.
Please be aware that due to the ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ legislation we do not accept CV’s.
We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date if we have received applications that meet the criteria.
Further information about the job
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 will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About The Bishop of Winchester Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1178 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Bishop of Winchester Academy website
The Bishop of Winchester Academy is a thriving Church of England school, commended by Ofsted for its ‘inclusive approach, which seeks to support all pupils’. Led by a dedicated team with ‘strong moral and ethical foundation[s]’, our shared mission for ‘improving the life chances of all [our] pupils is at the very centre of [our] work’ (Ofsted, 2017).
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