SEND Teacher
Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form, London, N16 9EX46 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2025 or Immediate Start where possible
Closing date
1 September 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
16 July 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time, term time: 32.5 hours a week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Inner London Pay Scale
Additional allowances
SEN Allowance (£2,539)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Post Purpose:
- To be a specialist SEND Teacher. Other subjects may also be taught as identified by the Headteacher according to candidates subject specialism, if required.
- To plan, oversee and deliver SEND interventions.
- To contribute to the planning, evaluation and curriculum developments in SEND and your subject department for years 7-13.
Main Tasks and Responsibilities
- To plan and teach high-quality lessons or SEND interventions and to maintain a stimulating learning environment.
- To implement the National Curriculum across the age range.
- To pitch teaching at a suitably challenging level for all students in accordance with school targets.
- To keep clear records in accordance with department and school policy, and to assess, monitor and report on individual pupils’ work and progress.
- To mark students’ work in line with school policy.
- To ensure all students make excellent progress through well-planned, differentiated classwork or intervention activities with determined follow-up and support.
- To work with individuals and groups both within and outside the classroom setting.
- To help plan the reintegration of students after extended absence or exclusion.
- To monitor progress before, during and after the intervention to measure the impact.
- To organise training for other support staff.
- To attend and participate in multi-disciplinary meetings.
- To act as a key worker for some students with EHCPs and to chair their annual reviews.
- To collaborate with the classroom teacher to define appropriate activities for SEND students in relation to the curriculum.
- To assess children who have long or short-term learning needs and work with colleagues to identify individual students' special needs.
- To deliver SEND interventions.
- To work with the Headteacher and Governing Body to ensure that the requirements of the Equality Act (2010) are met in terms of reasonable adjustments and access arrangements.
- To liaise with other professionals, such as social workers, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists and educational psychologists.
- To deliver training to Learning Support Assistants on SEND interventions.
- To work closely with parents, carers and guardians of students with SEN.
- To help with the smooth running of the department by undertaking tasks as requested and directed by the Head of Inclusion/SENCO.
- To attend parents’ evenings and progress review days.
- To attend school meetings as directed the department or by the Headteacher.
To carry out all responsibilities in accordance with the school’s and the Authority’s equal opportunities policies.
Skills and Abilities
- Ability to work hard under pressure.
- Ability to use I.T. effectively in teaching.
- Ability to be effective in record keeping.
- Good communication and organisational skills.
- Good interpersonal skills and a strong ability to work collaboratively.
- Excellent creative teaching ability.
- Ability to convey enthusiasm for your subject at all levels.
- Commitment to personal career development.
- Ability to deliver SEND interventions to a high quality.
Knowledge and Understanding
- Knowledge and understanding of the National Curriculum for your subject and related examination courses.
- Knowledge of the importance of appropriate planning, assessment for learning and homework.
- Knowledge of all school and local authority’s policies relating to SEN.
- Knowledge of a range of general SEND intervention strategies or programmes.
Equal Opportunities
- Highest ambition for the achievement of every student
- Understanding of the needs of different students, and the appropriate policies and strategies to support them.
- Understanding of the needs of SEN students.
Experience
- Successful experience of working with young people with SEN.
Qualifications
- Excellent Batchelor’s degree.
Relevant SEND qualification.
- Recent SEND Inset.
What the school offers its staff
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a successful and popular 11–19 inner-city comprehensive school. The school is especially committed to creative teaching and learning. We aim that every colleague has excellent professional development, which leads to every student having an outstanding education. Stoke Newington School is dedicated to being anti-racist and inclusive by striving hard to challenge through our curriculum. We seek to inculcate and strengthen the knowledge, confidence, and skills for all in our community to challenge racism.
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.
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About Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1666 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- lau.bal@sns.hackney.sch.uk
Welcome to Stoke Newington School – a vibrant, diverse and inclusive school delivering excellence for all. We are at the heart of our local community in North Hackney and strive to provide an inspirational learning journey for every student. We believe that all our young people have the potential to achieve in school and succeed in life. We ensure that students flourish at our school regardless of their starting point or individual circumstance. We have a culture rooted in high expectations for all, which cultivates a love of learning and ambition for success, together with a strong sense of belonging and civic duty.
Our teachers and support staff are creative, skilled and committed professionals, who work tirelessly to improve the outcomes for all our students. We have a strong focus on creativity in our classrooms. We believe everyone has creative capacities and know that creativity is the skill of the future. Our students past and present are strong evidence of our success. We are proud of their academic progress, sporting achievements, musical performances, drama productions and many have successfully achieved places at Russell Group universities, leading Art schools and high quality apprenticeships. Our year on year improvement at GCSE and A level reflects our strong commitment to continually evolve and deliver on our pledge to provide a great education for all.
We recognise that every young person is different and deserving of success. We have high expectations of behaviour to allow everyone to thrive and succeed. We place a strong emphasis on primary-secondary transition and recognise this moment can be both exciting and daunting for students and their parents. We pride ourselves on our compassionate pastoral care and environment of kindness. Many of our students choose to stay with us at Sixth Form, one of the largest in Hackney.
I hope our website has given you an insight into our school and encourage you to apply.
I look forward to welcoming you.
Zehra Jaffer
Headteacher
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