SEND Support Manager
Coopers School, Chislehurst, Kent, BR7 5PSThis job expired on 29 February 2024
Closing date
29 February 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
1 February 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
- £34,491.00 - £36,567.00 Annually (FTE) Actual Salary £33,489 – £35,505
SEND Support Manager job summary
Education for the 21st Century is a values-led organisation, driven by a determination to create welcoming and open schools for the local community, where every person thrives, makes excellent progress, and succeeds. We are committed to improving outcomes and transforming lives, realising social mobility, and the transformative power of education. We value the difference in all our schools while seeking to bring them together around a framework that delivers an enriching experience and a great education for the young people within our care.
We want the very best for all our young people. Our plan to ensure that we deliver great schools is underpinned by our shared values of trust, kindness, and endeavour. Our schools and our staff are collaborative and we seek to create consistency and quality throughout.
Our leaders create improvement in schools that is robust and sustainable. We are as enthusiastic about developing and nurturing our staff, as we are about developing our young people. Our professional development programs and our approach to school improvement provide quality and rigor while creating a depth of experience and learning for our staff.
In joining Coopers School and the family of schools within E21C you will gain access to an unparalleled level of support and development in a forward-thinking school and trust.
We are seeking to appoint an outstanding, well organised and experience SEND Manager to oversee and ensure the provision for SEND pupils and acting as a named lead for specified EHCPs. You will be responsible for supporting the administrative aspects of EHCPs, act as a point of contact for parents and carers, teaching staff and pupils in relation to their educational progress and you will lead the team of HLTAs and TAs, whilst always promoting a business-like office environment and building and maintaining good relationships with all staff both within the school and across the E21C Trust.
The ideal candidate will maintain rigorous high expectations for staff and students alike. They will also be similarly passionate about their own learning and engagement with continuous professional development, recognising that meaningful learning is much more than what happens in the classroom alone and the importance of enriching the curriculum through meaningful contributions towards our broad extra-curricular provision.
You will have the opportunity to work with a talented team of like-minded leaders, teachers, and a strong central team, all working together to build sustainable excellence is our schools.
“E21C is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Education for the 21st Century is fully committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.”
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.
About Coopers School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1293 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Coopers School website (opens in new tab)
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