Special Educational Needs Coordinator
St. Joseph's CofE Junior School, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1DQThis job expired on 7 May 2024
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
7 May 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
25 April 2024
Job details
Job role
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 4 days a week (flexibility to hours can be discussed at interview)
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS-UPS
Additional allowances
SEN allowance £2287
What skills and experience we're looking for
Key Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
- Qualified Teacher Status - essential
- Teaching experience in a relevant setting with evidence of delivering high quality inclusive teaching and learning
- Strong commitment to raising educational attainment for pupils with SEND
- Up-to-date knowledge on identifying and support pupils with SEND
- Understanding of evidence based, best practice strategies and interventions to improve access to all lessons for pupils with SEND
- National Award for Special Educational Needs Coordination (NASENCO) or ability and willingness to achieve the qualification within 3 years of undertaking the role; a willingness and ability to develop specialist knowledge and keep up to date with local and national policy and developments – essential
- Excellent, effective communication skills; oral and written
- Ability to build and maintain good productive working relationships with colleagues
- Good coaching, influencing and negotiating skills that demonstrate empathy and emotional intelligence;
- Ability to assess, analyse and problem solve and actively contribute to raising performance of pupils with SEND
- Good organisation and time management skills
- Ability to quality assure provision including carrying out effective lesson observations
- Understanding of budgets including budget monitoring, costed provision mapping and deployment of the SEN notional budgets
- Ability to effectively allocate resources including additional adults to support pupils with SEND to achieve best outcomes
- Ability to motivate and inspire confidence in pupils, staff, parents and the wider community in order to further develop and promote the school.
- ICT and its effective use as a management tool as well as across the curriculum to enhance teaching and learning
What the school offers its staff
- A happy school team who will share your enthusiasm
- Experienced and approachable leaders who will support you and your professional development
- Commitment to supporting you to find a work, life balance
- Opportunity to join the schools at an exciting point on our journey with a new Executive Headteacher starting in September
- A kind, caring ethos that puts children at the heart of everything we do
Further details about the role
What we are looking for in our new SENCo:
- Commitment to the vision and values of the schools
- Commitment to nurturing and inspiring every child to their potential
- Commitment to growing in their practice; willing to try new things and learn with us as we explore how we better enable every child to flourish
- Commitment to working with the staff team to realise this vision in our community
- Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all pupils
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 St. Joseph's CofE Junior School
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 151 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- nodonovan@stjosephscejunior.school
- Phone number
- 01243 783709
Set in the heart of Chichester, staff at our schools work tirelessly to ensure all children are cared for and educated in an environment where nurturing the uniqueness of each child is of the greatest importance.
St Joseph’s CE Junior School
St Joseph’s CE Junior School, previously Central CE Academy, joined DCAT in 2016 when the school was in Special Measures. With the support of the Trust and dedication of the staff and wider community, the school has been on an improvement journey and received a ‘Good’ Ofsted rating in 2022.
‘Love one another as I have loved you’, underpins the way that every child feels valued and included. We have high expectations for all pupils, and they are encouraged to explore, discover, and question through a range of learning opportunities both within and outside the classroom.
St Joseph’s Infant School
At St Joseph’s Infant School we aim to provide the best possible start to every child’s education. We work together to ensure that children feel safe, nurtured, and comfortable in their environment.
The school joined DCAT in 2020, was previously named Lancastrian Infant School, and in September 2023 moved to its current site.
The school offers wrap around care for the children with an on-site nursery and before and after school clubs.
Arranging a visit to St. Joseph's CofE Junior School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email nodonovan@stjosephscejunior.school.
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