SENDCo
Brighton Hill Community School, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG22 4HSThis job expired on 11 April 2023
Job start date
1 September 2023
Closing date
11 April 2023 at 5pm
Date listed
20 March 2023
Job details
Job role
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
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- 32.5 hours a week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPR / UPR
Additional allowances
TLR 1A
What skills and experience we're looking for
What skills and experience we are looking for
- Must have qualified teacher status.
- Hold the National Award for SENCO qualification.
- Be committed to providing the highest standards of provision for students with SEND
- Be an aspirational practitioner with high expectations and commitment to raising standards.
- Be able to demonstrate effective communication skills with all stakeholders.
- Be highly organised, patient and resilient.
- Experience of using data and data analysis to drive up standards.
- Clear knowledge and experience in all issues arising relating to the safeguarding of children.
What the school offers its staff
Why apply to work at Brighton Hill Community School
The school;
- Exceptional support from Faculty colleagues and the Senior Leadership Team.
- “The drive to continually improve the school is relentless. Leaders and governors constantly focus on their vision of ‘making success inevitable.” (Ofsted April ‘22)
- ” Staff praise the work of leaders and say they are proud of the school. Staff explained that the effective professional development they receive results in continuing improvements to students’ learning and pastoral care.” (Ofsted ‘22)
- “Lessons are calm and focused. When asking students about this, one simply explained, ‘It’s how we do it here. “(Ofsted ‘22)
- The quality of education Good
- Behaviour and attitudes Outstanding “(Ofsted ‘22)
- Personal development Outstanding “(Ofsted ‘22)
- Leadership and management Outstanding “(Ofsted ‘22)
Professional development;
- Support to be innovative and develop your professional skills, with our bespoke and expansive CPD programme.
- Benefit from our alliance with the Teaching School and to collaborate with colleagues.
- Opportunities to contribute towards the planning of the school improvement plan.
- Exceptional support from the Senior leadership team in your role as well as to support strategic development.
- Benefit from a school focussed on staff well-being.
- Opportunities to contribute to an extensive extra-curricular programme for students.
Leadership;
- Collaboration with our established SEND progress officer who will deputise and support.
- Work within the schools newly established ‘Hive’ provision which is a strategic SEN provision to best support our students with SEN.
- Work within an established team who are highly resourced and have a strong sense of collaboration and support for each other as a team.
- Benefit from our accomplished delivery of the ECF programme as a local delivery provider, with opportunities to contribute to the programme.
Further details about the role
Brighton Hill School is looking to appoint a, highly skilled, motivated and qualified SENDCo.
This new appointment will work in collaboration with our Lead SENDCo who will be on Maternity from July ’23. This investment in our strategic vision for SEND is part of our innovative approach to providing high quality provision for all of our students.
Brighton Hill Community School has been rated as ‘Good’ with Outstanding in three of the four Ofsted categories. We are a rapidly growing coeducational 11-16 Community School with 1250 students. You would join the schools newly expanded SEN faculty which comprises of an extremely talented team and to support individualised and targeted intervention programmes, develop the strategic work of our Specialist support and Faculty support staff and engage, inspire and challenge all of young students to ensure an inclusive educational experience.
Candidates will be committed to the learning and development of the school’s students and have the strategic overview of the academic outcomes of learners with SEND as well as supporting the student support team to ensure a holistic approach. You will also be responsible for ensuring that children with SEND have access to a rich, broad and balanced curriculum, which is inclusive of their needs. You will support the training for all teaching and support staff, to ensure appropriate provision is in place for learners with SEND in both interventions and in the classroom.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding children and promoting the welfare of students and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to DBS and other employment checks.
About Brighton Hill Community School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
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- School size
- 1206 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- jlevett@brightonhill.hants.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01256 362523
Brighton Hill Community School is rated as ‘Good’ by Ofsted and is a rapidly improving coeducational 11-16 Community School with 1110 students.
Arranging a visit to Brighton Hill Community School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jlevett@brightonhill.hants.sch.uk.
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