SENDCo
This job expired on 20 March 2023 – see similar jobs
Closing date
20 March 2023 at 9am
Date listed
2 March 2023
Job details
Job role
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £52,700.00 to £56,583.00
SENDCo job summary
We are:
A lively and purposeful co-educational, comprehensive state boarding school for children aged 7 to 18 years, with approximately 670 flexi-boarders and 430 full boarders. The school is a popular choice for local families who attend on our flexi boarding package, as well as for full boarders from further afield in the UK and internationally. This is due to a wide range of factors including our facilities, academic pathways and results, pastoral care, the boarding and flexi-boarding ethos and environment, wide range of trips and co-curricular activities and the resultant attitudes of its pupils.
We offer:
● Professional, supportive and committed staff team
● Beautiful estate set in 260 acres of parkland
● Convenient location, close to the A23 and M25
● Free on-site parking
We are seeking to recruit an experienced and highly motivated SENDCo and invite applications from professionals with vision and ambition to inspire and lead on the on-going development of SEND policy and provision across the school.
We are looking for an exceptional candidate to be responsible for day-to-day implementation of the SEND policy and co-ordination of specific provision to support individual students with SEND. We want to recruit someone who puts students first and proactively focuses on the development, sharing and monitoring of best practice across the school so that our students have the best educational opportunities and a positive school experience.
Ideally you will be an experienced teacher with a passion for quality first teaching, you will be a qualified SENDCo who is experienced in areas of training and process, in working with JCQ Exams Access procedures and have sound knowledge of the SEND Code of Practice.
The school reserves the right to appoint prior to 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.
About Royal Alexandra and Albert School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 7 to 18
- Education phase
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- School size
- 1097 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 18
- Ofsted report
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