SENDCO
Bohunt School Worthing, Worthing, West Sussex, BN14 8AH16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
April 2025
Closing date
31 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
7 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £55,208.00 - £59,458.00 Annually (FTE)
SENDCO job summary
Start date: April 2025
Salary: L5-8
We are seeking an excellent colleague to strategically lead on SEND and Alternative Provision through a Centre for Excellence where all children may grow and thrive. You will be joining a school that has high expectations and high aspirations for all of our students. Applications are welcome from both experienced SENCo’s and someone who is currently a Deputy SENCo or an experienced teacher ready for the next step. Potential for this role to develop and join the Leadership Team is an option.
Staff are engaged with professional development and are supported in exploring new ideas. The successful candidate will be an excellent SEND practitioner or Teacher with a proven record of outstanding teaching with a strong commitment to inclusion and school improvement.
We invest heavily in CPD/ training and have fantastic links with other schools and professional organisations. New ideas and approaches are welcomed with open arms and coaching is used to unlock potential. We work very closely with our ‘family’ of partner schools and are currently the strategic lead for a unique teaching and learning project.
As part of the Bohunt Education Trust, there are plenty of opportunities for support, development and progression. We have a strong desire to create a unique, innovative and rich educational climate underpinned by co-planning and collaboration between professionals, which has the possibility to lead to additional responsibilities with necessary skills and attributes to have a real impact upon our SEND provision at Bohunt Worthing.
You are joining Bohunt Education Trust at an exciting time of its development. We have nine secondary schools across four local authorities: Hampshire, Portsmouth, West Sussex and Wokingham; Bohunt Horsham opened in September 2019, and the newest addition, Bohunt Farnborough joined in January 2024. You will benefit from being part of a multi-academy trust offering the support of experienced colleagues across our schools and greater opportunities for career progression for those with both potential and aspirations to progress.
For further details or to make an appointment prior to applying please contact Karen Calder on 01903 601361, or by email recruitment@bohuntworthing.com.
TO APPLY: Please read the job description, school information, staff dress code and apply online today.
Closing date: Friday 31st January 2025
Interview date: W/c 3rd February 2025
Start date: April 2025
*Interviews will be held as soon as suitable candidates are available, so we invite interested candidates to apply as soon as possible. We reserve the right to appoint before the closing date.
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 are not accepted.
About Bohunt School Worthing
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 909 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Bohunt School Worthing website (opens in new tab)
I am very proud to welcome you to the community and family that is Bohunt School Worthing (BSW). Our purpose built, modern and innovative Academy school opened in September 2015 to Year 7 and 8, and has since grown into a vibrant and successful 11-16 comprehensive school in the heart of the Worthing community, where all our young people and staff genuinely enjoy, respect and achieve.
As part of the Bohunt Education Trust we deliver a shared vision where the highest expectations, opportunities and innovative teaching combine to develop young people who are ‘game changers’. Where every child has the potential to be the best version of themselves.
Our school is built on the firm foundations of high expectations for all, with a creative and personalised curriculum that extends learning both in the classroom and through a wide range of enriching experiences and opportunities.
This is uniquely blended with the firm conviction that all our young people are at the heart of all we aspire to achieve. We are committed to and experienced in developing confident, ambitious and skilled young people who will relish their role in making a positive difference to their communities; whether local, national or global. BSW young people should be well equipped for any challenge.
Our positive and collaborative ethos is underpinned by the belief that all members of our school have the potential for excellence. We are an inclusive place of learning where all young people, visitors and staff, of all gender types are recognised and welcomed and where all young people that require additional support, are cared for. We are committed to raising aspiration and dedicated to supporting the development of, confidence, self-belief, academic reading & numeracy skills and well-being vital for success within our everyday lives. This means everyone at BSW will be able to achieve and thrive, celebrating both whole school and individual successes, academic or personal together.
I am delighted to be able to welcome you to our school and encourage you to review our website or contact us for further information
Bohunt School Worthing is based in a central location in Worthing; a coastal town on the South Coast in West Sussex. With easy access to the A27; centrally between Chichester and Brighton, and also the A24 and the A23. We are well served by public transport, with a train station within walking distance and a bus route on our doorstep.
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