SENDCo
Greythorn Primary School, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG2 7GH5 days remaining to apply
Earliest start date
1 January 2025
Latest start date
22 April 2025
Closing date
26 November 2024 at 9am
Date listed
18 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 2 days a week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- M1 to UPR
Additional allowances
TLR2a
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for someone who:
- Has had experience in a primary school as a practicing SENDCo
- Has the National Award for SENDCo or is working towards it/willing to complete it
- Has a secure understanding of the Code of Practice and can translate this into effective strategies and practice at a school level
- Can work with other members of the SLT to determine the strategic development of SEND policy and provision for the school
- Is tenacious in their approach to ensuring all children with SEND have an inclusive education
As part of the role you will be expected to:
- Be responsible for establishing and maintaining the day-to-day operation of the SEND policy and co-ordination of specific provision to support individual pupils with SEND.
- Work with parents and children to ensure a smooth transition into school.
- Have a strategic overview of the provision for pupils with SEND across the school, monitoring and reviewing the quality of provision
- Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of national and local initiatives which may affect the school’s policy and practice
- Identify a pupil’s SEND and co-ordinate provision that meets the pupil’s needs, and monitor its effectiveness
- Maintain an accurate and up to date SEND register, pupil profiles and provision maps.
- Provide guidance to colleagues on teaching pupils with SEND and advise on the graduated approach to SEND
- Advise on the use of the school’s budget and other resources to meet pupils’ needs effectively, including staff deployment
- Work with early years providers, other schools, educational psychologists, health and social care professionals, and other external agencies
- Analyse assessment data for pupils with SEND
- Implement, coordinate and lead intervention groups for pupils with SEND, and evaluate their effectiveness
- Liaise with other schools to ensure continuity of support and learning when pupils with SEND come in to school or transfer to other schools
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you:
- Support to access leadership qualifications
- An opportunity to be part of a supportive, developmental partnership
- CPD matched to your stage of development
- The opportunity for career progression across the Flying High Partnership.
- The opportunity to be part of an ambitious leadership team, working to deliver the best opportunities for the children and the community it serves
- A network of peers who will offer support, friendship and guidance
- A varied job where no day is the same!
- An organisation committed to supporting and enabling the wellbeing of all staff
Flexible working opportunities
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and post holders to share this commitment. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applicants. Applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
Applying for the job
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About Greythorn Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 304 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Greythorn Primary School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- office@greythorn.notts.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01159149779
Primary School
Arranging a visit to Greythorn Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email office@greythorn.notts.sch.uk.
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