Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator
The Bishop of Winchester Academy, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH8 9PW10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
9 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
28 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- Leadership Scale (dependent on experience)
Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator job summary
Are you looking for a career in a thriving, friendly and supportive environment where staff welfare is a priority? Are you passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people in a role that really matters? If so, The Bishop of Winchester Academy wants you!
We are seeking a highly experienced and motivated SENCo, who is committed to supporting students with SEND to reach their potential and is able to make a positive contribution to our community. We offer a range of provision for our students to assist them within the mainstream secondary setting.
You will work with a highly professional team who believe in the inclusion and success of all our students and giving them the best possible prospects for their future lives. We are ambitious in striving to meet individual needs and improving their learning opportunities.
Committed to the inclusion of all our students, you will of course have excellent communication skills, and will have vision, expertise and commitment in the area of SEN. You will ideally have strong experience in multi-agency working and have a strong awareness of the relevant SEN legislation that underpins SEN within schools. You will lead on the outstanding teaching and achievement of students with SEND as well as leading the learning support assistant team to ensure high quality in-class support. You will promote inclusion of all students and their families within the academy community to ensure progress and meaningful access to the curriculum, facilities and enrichment activities.
You will need to have excellent communication skills. You will work closely with our leadership team, supporting and liaising with staff, parents and external agencies to ensure identified student’s needs are met.
The position will require vision, expertise, experience and commitment in the area of SEN.
As SENCo, you will be welcomed into an exceptional team of professionals to:
- Support and liaise with staff, parents and external agencies
- Ensure the needs of identified students is met by coordinating support and provision for students with EHCPs
- Support the Learning Support Assistant team with ensuring high-quality in-class support
- Work with class teachers and other academy staff to ensure awareness of the implications of SEND
The Bishop of Winchester Academy is a thriving Church of England school, recently recognised by Ofsted as prioritising ‘wider opportunities alongside achievement so that pupils “live life to the full.”’ (Ofsted 2023). Operating from recently refurbished facilities, our shared mission to improve the life chances of all of our students is at the very centre of our work.
We put the welfare of our staff at the heart of everything we do and can offer you:
- Generous employer pension contribution at 28.6% basic salary from April 2024
- Early Friday finish at 1:00pm
- Supportive and practical marking policy
- Career development with a bespoke CPD programme
- Excellent newly refurbished teaching facilities with free onsite parking and good local public transport links
- Employee Assistance Programme and Cycle to Work scheme
- Close proximity to beaches and the Jurassic Coast to assist your work life balance
The Bishop of Winchester Academy is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants. Please be aware that due to the ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ legislation we do not accept CV’s.
We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date if we have received applications that meet the criteria.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About The Bishop of Winchester Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1148 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Bishop of Winchester Academy website
The Bishop of Winchester Academy is a thriving Church of England school, commended by Ofsted for its ‘inclusive approach, which seeks to support all pupils’. Led by a dedicated team with ‘strong moral and ethical foundation[s]’, our shared mission for ‘improving the life chances of all [our] pupils is at the very centre of [our] work’ (Ofsted, 2017).
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