Trust Lead for SEND
Cheviot Learning Trust, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE13 9BAThis job expired on 20 September 2024
Start date details
Required for January 2025 or sooner
Closing date
20 September 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
6 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: Part-time will be considered
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £60,488 - £66,628
Pay scale
- L11 - L15
What skills and experience we're looking for
Cheviot Learning Trust are seeking to appoint an outstanding and highly experienced SEND professional to lead the transformation of our SEND provision across our Trust.
The key purpose of this position is to work closely with our SENCOs and Headteachers to provide expert support, guidance and challenge to ensure all schools and the Trust fulfil their statutory SEND responsibilities. The post holder will develop strong, strategic relationships with external agencies involved in SEND provision to ensure high quality external SEND support for our schools, children, young people and families. They will also ensure that the many current strengths of SEND provision in our schools are shared widely across the Trust and will also ensure that high quality CPD is in place for all staff involved in supporting children and young people with SEND.
This new post offers an excellent opportunity for an ambitious leader to combine their detailed knowledge and experience of SEND with our schools’ existing strengths in this area, to develop outstanding SEND provision for all children and young people within our Trust.
Our purpose is to deliver excellent education for the benefit of all and our mission is to develop all our children and young people to have the opportunity to succeed. We are seeking a candidate who will join us in this mission with a particular emphasis on ensuring that such excellent educational opportunities are available to all children and young people with SEND within our schools.
This post will be based at our Central Team Office in Gosforth with regular travel required to all schools within the Trust across Northumberland.
We are committed to investing in our staff and you will receive a supportive induction programme and have access to high quality CPD.
For more information, please contact Dominique Flint, Trust HR Manager via email d.flint@cheviotlt.co.uk.
Application forms can be downloaded from the Trust website www.cheviotlearningtrust.co.uk/careers. The Trust website also contains full information about our Trust, with links to all of our schools’ websites.
Completed applications should be returned to Alice Witherow, CEO, via d.flint@cheviotlt.co.uk. Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.
Shortlisting: Monday 23 September 2024
Interviews: Tuesday 1 October 2024
What the school offers its staff
What you can expect from us:
- Teachers’ Pension Scheme
- Access to a range of continuous professional development opportunities
- Access to a range of wellbeing provisions
- Flexible working opportunities
- Family friendly working practices
- Free car parking
- Cycle to work scheme which enables employees to purchase a bike and accessories for their commute to work
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 search
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 Cheviot Learning Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- d.flint@cheviotlt.co.uk
- Phone number
- 0191 6052031
Cheviot Learning Trust was created in 2023 from a merger of Tyne Community Learning Trust and Three Rivers Learning Trust. We educate over 5500 students across 18 schools between the ages of 2 and 19 and employ over 750 staff.
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