Start date 1 September 2024 Hours Full time all year round Uffculme School Queensbridge Road Birmingham B13 8QB Contact email HRuffculme.bham.sch.uk Mission - To enable all young people to have the skills, knowledge and experiences to lead meaningful and enjoyable lives, and optimise lifelong opportunities. Vision - We will have an enhanced recognition as a centre for excellent practice of autism, training and supporting others. We will be integrating with the wider community to enhance lifelong learning for students with autism both locally and beyond. Main purpose of the job; as a member of the Senior Leadership Team to lead staff and manage of student needs across school to ensure the individual needs are met in order to achieve best possible outcomes for our students under the guidance of the Deputy Headteacher, Pastoral, to develop a high quality of teaching and learning ethos across the pastoral and specialist teams, consisting of Behaviour team, Education Psychology services, Speech and Language, Occupational Health as well as bespoke partnerships. to carry out under the reasonable direction of the Headteacher, the professional duties of a teacher which are set out in the relevant paragraphs of the School Teachers Pay and Conditions Document and any subsequent amendments co-ordinate links with the full range of external agencies and other professional colleagues to ensure that our pupils receive their full entitlement regarding their specific needs as detailed in pupil Statements/ EHCP ensure that CiC pupils make at least expected progress through effective monitoring and deployment of identified interventions to support with the co-ordination of safeguarding across the sites, as well as carrying out the duties of a DSL liaise with other members of the school to continually develop and improve home/school links to undertake a teaching timetable commitment across your department/school as appropriate to support staff to develop best practice in responding to students needs as an immediate response and for long term success This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role. Please download applicant pack and apply online This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check (where applicable) Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. An online search will also be carried out on all shortlisted candidates. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.