SEND Team Manager
Big Creative Academy, London, E17 6HL6 days remaining to apply
Job start date
2 September 2025
Closing date
26 June 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
19 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 5 days per week, 35 hours. 52 weeks with 35 days annual leave
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £38,000 to £42,000
What skills and experience we're looking for
Education and Qualifications
Educated to degree level or equivalent in SEND/Behaviour
Qualification or equivalent Child care and Development/ Young people’s work force/ Health and Social Care/Class Room Assistant
Qualification in mental health first aid/Safeguarding Level1
Knowledge and Skills
Knowledge of issues affecting young people as creatives
Ability to work effectively with a range of colleagues both within the Academy and from external agencies
Knowledge of high needs funding for the effective support of students with an Educational Health Care Plan
Extensive knowledge of using, setting up, maintaining and developing administrative systems.
Experience of working with Students who have difficulty attending an education setting
Ability to develop good relations with staff and students and the wider school community
Experience
Must have worked with children and or adolescents supporting SEND needs in an educational setting
Experience in working in an all-inclusive setting
Commitment
Track and manage data
Ability to organise and prioritise workload and work on own initiative
Ability to develop good relations with staff and students and the wider school community
What the school offers its staff
•Flexible Fridays, half day, to provide work-life balance •Employee assistance programme •Research-based professional development •Supportive, caring and developmental environment with full staff wellbeing programme •Excellent career development opportunities and performance recognition •Staff social events •Gym facilities for staff use •Cycle to work scheme
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to bca-hr@bigcreative.education
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Big Creative Academy
- School type
- Free School, ages 16 to 19
- Education phase
- Sixth_form_or_college
- School size
- 0 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 16 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Big Creative Academy website
- Email address
- bca-hr@bigcreative.education
Big Creative Academy (BCA) is a post-16 free school specialising in the creative industries. We believe that teaching skills employers want and empowering young people to think reflectively enables positive outcomes for students and our wider community. Big Creative Academy is committed to wellbeing and excellent teaching. Our mission is to improve the lives of young people through high quality training and creative industry experiences. We have 350 learners studying vocational programmes progressing to higher education and employment.
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