Special Educational Needs & Disabilities Coordinator (SENDCO)
The Swan School, Oxford, OX2 7WP9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2024
Closing date
11 October 2023 at 8am
Date listed
8 September 2023
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- No, visa sponsorship not available
Subject
- Special Education Needs (SEN)
Working pattern
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS/UPS + TLR1(2)
Special Educational Needs & Disabilities Coordinator (SENDCO) job summary
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to be part of starting an exceptional comprehensive school. As a member of The Swan’s team, you will help to build the foundations of an outstanding school from the ground up. In this role you will work closely with other colleagues (including both senior and middle leaders) to ensure that students with special educational needs and disabilities can achieve more than they ever believed possible. This is an interesting and varied role that will include:
- - Championing students with SEND across the school;
- - Liaising closely with parents/carers and outside agencies;
- - Helping to ensure that quality first teaching is a reality in all classrooms as the first, and most effective, intervention to support students with SEND;
- - Developing effective systems to ensure that students with SEND are making exceptional progress and receiving the support they need and are entitled to;
- - Leading a large team including Accelerated Learning Champions, Specialist Support Champions, and School Counsellors to ensure that the best additional interventions are put in place for students with SEND.
The Swan School, part of the River Learning Trust, is Oxford’s first new secondary school for over 50 years, and opened in September 2019. When full, we will have approximately 1,200 students on roll, of whom around 300 will be in the Sixth Form. Our students will be drawn from a local catchment area and the school will be at the heart of the community.
Learning from the most successful approaches at the best schools, The Swan School provides a uniquely challenging and structured experience in a caring and disciplined environment. The ethos is academic; we regard an excellent academic education as the entitlement of all young people, no matter what their background or previous experiences of learning. Students are inspired and nurtured, acquiring the knowledge and skills to think critically and creatively. They will learn to be confident, resilient and ambitious, and will have high expectations in terms of their own achievements and their contribution to wider society.
The successful candidate will share our ambitions for our students. You will relish the challenge of creating a new school that will be different to other comprehensive schools in the city. You will be a highly motivated team player with some experience of leadership, a creative thinker who is unafraid to try new approaches, and a reflective practitioner, keen to continue learning in order to achieve the best possible outcomes for our students. Above all, you will be passionate about supporting students with SEND to achieve more than they ever believed possible.
If you have any questions or would like to speak to someone about this post, please contact us via headteacher@theswanschool.org.uk or on 01865 416070. You are advised to visit theswanschool.org.uk/work-at-the-swan/ to find out more about working at The Swan and to visit the school/speak to an existing member of staff prior to making an application. Please contact us if you have any queries regarding the application process.
The closing date for applications is Wednesday 11th October at 8am with interviews are likely to be held on Wednesday 18th October. Applications will be considered as they are submitted and the school reserves the right to withdraw the advert early if a suitable candidate is found.
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The River Learning Trust and The Swan School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. All staff must ensure that the highest priority is given to following the guidance and regulations to safeguard children and young people. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. Employment will also be conditional on the receipt of at least two acceptable references (one from current/latest employer) and evidence of the formal qualifications required for the role.It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. You should contact the school if you are unsure if this role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
- For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link
- The Swan School's Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy can be found here
The Swan School is a free school managed by The River Learning Trust, which is an exempt charity and a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales with a registered company number 7966500. Registered Office: c/o Gosford Hill School, Oxford Road, Kidlington, Oxfordshire, OX5 2NT
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About The Swan School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
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- School size
- 667 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
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