SENDCo
Upton-by-Chester High School, Chester, Cheshire, CH2 1NN4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2024 or sooner if possible
Closing date
7 May 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
22 April 2024
Job details
Job role
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPR/UPR
Additional allowances
TLR2(3) £7,842 + SEND ALLOWANCE £2,539
What skills and experience we're looking for
- An experienced teacher who knows how to support the learning needs of SEND learners in the mainstream classroom.
- Ambitious for all SEND learners and for themselves.
- Able to support and coach other teachers to ensure adaptive teaching supports the progress that SEND learners make in all lessons.
- Able to motivate and lead a large team of staff with a clear strategic vision for the delivery for SEND provision across the school.
- Able to liase successfully with external agencies and parents/carers.
What the school offers its staff
- A committed team of leaders and staff who want to support the successful candidate to develop our SEND provision and standards further.
- A commitment to ongoing professional development to support the successful candidate.
- A dedicated team of staff who work to support learners with SEND across the school.
- An excellent pastoral structure which will support the successful candidate.
- An inspirational and rewarding place to work where staff are focused on delivering the schools vision for ALL learners- ‘Learning to Shape the Future’.
Further details about the role
The successful candidate will work closely with our experienced senior and middle leaders to ensure a high standard of provision for SEND learners across the school. This will include ensuring all staff, learners, parents, and carers are informed about learners SEND needs and are supported to ensure highly effective and appropriate strategies are implemented, communicated, and effectively reviewed. Under the leadership of the current SENCO the school has received National recognition – we are keen to continue to build on this and develop SEND provision and standards further. The successful candidate will have the full support of all leaders in the school.
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
Please complete the online application.
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About Upton-by-Chester High School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1737 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Upton-by-Chester High School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- kenway-sevillee@uptonhigh.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01244 259890
“This is a good school with an outstanding 6th Form” OFSTED 2019
Arranging a visit to Upton-by-Chester High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email kenway-sevillee@uptonhigh.co.uk.
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