SENDCo
Nuneaton Academy, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 7PD10 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
29 June 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
17 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday 08:00 - 16:00, term time only
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- £52,000 upwards
What skills and experience we're looking for
Job Title: SENDCo
Location: Nuneaton Academy
Salary: Leadership Pay Range, based on experience
Reporting to: AP SEND
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent Start date: ASAP
Job Purpose:
•To support in leading and coordinating the Special Educational Needs team
•The key task of the SENCO is to ensure that Special Educational Needs (SEN) provision is both efficiently and effectively managed.
•Ensure all legal and statutory requirements are met for pupils with SEN.
•To maintain excellent records
•To address matters that arise skillfully and promptly
•To engage with parents to build and maintain positive relationships
•To facilitate and encourage a learning experience which provides pupils with the opportunity to achieve their individual potential.
•To contribute to raising attendance.
•To identify barriers and work with pupils and their families to remove these barriers
•To share and support the academy’s responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for personal and academic growth.
Safeguarding
To uphold the academy’s policies in respect of Safeguarding and Child Protection and ensure the safety and well-being of all learners.
What the school offers its staff
About United Learning
More Pay – More Time – More support
United Learning is a group of schools which aims to provide excellent education to children and young people across the country. We uniquely comprise schools in both the state and the independent sectors and currently educate over 60,000 students and employ over 9,000 members of staff.
The growing range of outstanding group-wide activities that we can provide will mean that more young people will have truly exceptional and inspiring experiences. We believe that our Group contains the most developed relationships and practical interactions between independent and state schools in the country; creating benefits for all the schools involved whilst respecting both traditions and learning from each other.
United Learning comprises both United Church Schools Trust, which operates our fee-paying independent schools, and United Learning Trust, which operates our state-funded academies. To find out more about United Learning, please visit the website: www.unitedlearning.org.uk
Further details about the role
Responsibilities and Tasks
This list is not meant to provide a narrow definition of specific responsibilities but to serve as guidance and should be seen as enabling rather than restrictive.
SEND
The SENCO takes responsibility for the day-to-day operation of provision made for pupils with SEN and provides professional guidance in the area of SEN in order to secure high quality teaching and the effective use of resources to good progress for all pupils.
Ensuring compliance with the SEND code of practice.
Strategic direction and development of SEN provision including:
Wave 1 Teaching and Learning
Development and implementation of wave 2 and 3 interventions.
Leading and managing the SEND staff team
Efficient and effective deployment of staff and resources
Ensure effective systems of communication, including feedback about pupils’ learning to inform future planning
Quality Assurance of SEN support to meet the needs of pupils
Ensure that the objectives of the SEN policy are reflected in the improvement plan. Liaise with and coordinate the contribution of external agencies
Up to date knowledge of National and local initiatives which may impact upon policy and practice.
Leading on Annual Reviews
Ensure that access arrangements are in place for pupils who require these for examinations.
The screening of all pupils at significant entry points, including in year and managed move entries
The assessment of individual pupils when subject teachers have registered concerns
Encouraging all staff to report their concerns to the SENCO on the concerns form
Completing more in-depth assessments where necessary
Monitor and evaluate assessment data in SEND to identify trends in pupil performance and progress, and issues for development.
Continuously review provision in SEND against performance targets and value for money.
Monitor planning, curriculum delivery and implementation of schemes of learning.
Analyse and interpret relevant data, research and inspection evidence to inform provision and seek improvement where necessary.
Ensure that own teaching is an example of best practice for other staff.
•Support the Principal in ensuring that Academy policies within SEND are followed by staff.
•Monitor and evaluate the impact of the implementation of the SEND strategy.
•Identify good practice, areas for development and strategies for sharing and support.
Planning, Teaching and Class Management
Teach allocated pupils by planning their teaching to achieve progression of learning through:
Identifying clear teaching objectives and specifying how they will be taught and assessed
Setting tasks which challenge students and ensure high levels of interest
Setting appropriate and demanding expectations
Setting clear targets, building on prior attainment
Be aware of and make provision for students who are AEN/SEN, very able, LAC or who have other individual needs
Providing clear structures for lessons maintaining pace, motivation and challenge
Making effective use of assessment and ensuring coverage in programs of study
Ensuring effective teaching and best use of available time
Maintaining discipline in accordance with the academy's procedures and encouraging good practice regarding punctuality, behaviour, standards of work and homework
Manage pupils’ behaviour constructively by establishing and maintaining a clear and positive framework for discipline, in line with the academy’s behaviour policy
Using a variety of teaching methods to:
Match approach to content, structure information, present a set of key ideas and use appropriate vocabulary
Use effective questioning, listen carefully to pupils and give attention to errors and misconceptions
Select appropriate learning resources and develop study skills through library, I.C.T. and other sources
Ensuring pupils acquire and consolidate knowledge, skills and understanding appropriate to the subject taught
Evaluating own teaching skills critically to improve effectiveness
Ensuring the effective and efficient deployment of classroom support
Liaise with the subject Leader to ensure the implementation of department policy and best practice.
Monitoring, Assessment, Recording, Reporting
Plan teaching based upon thorough monitoring and rigorous assessment through:
Assessing how well learning objectives have been achieved and using them to improve specificaspects of teaching
Marking and monitoring pupils' work and setting targets for progress
Assessing and recording pupils' progress systematically and keeping records to check work is understood and completed, monitoring strengths and weaknesses, to inform planning and assess the level at which the pupils are achieving
Undertaking assessment of students as requested by examination bodies, departmental and academy procedures
Preparing and presenting informative reports to parents
Undertaking assessment of pupils and participating in the academy’s system reporting to parents.
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 Nuneaton Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 943 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Nuneaton Academy website
- Email address
- natalie.blair@nuneatonacademy.org.uk
Arranging a visit to Nuneaton Academy
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