Job Overview
Your opportunity / the purpose of the SENCO role
Passionate about making a difference?
As SENCo, you will have the opportunity to work with the Senior Leadership Group (SLG) to ensure an ethos of inclusion and high aspirations for students with SEND.
The Purpose Of The SENCo Role Includes
* Ensuring that Academy practice is compliant with the SEND Code of Practice (2014) and other relevant statutory requirements
* Working with the SLG ensuring the implementation of our SEND Policy
* Ensuring that the provision of SEND support is in accordance with our aims and policies
* Maintaining the Academy’s SEND profile, ensuring that it is always up-to-date and accurate
* Being responsible for the accurate identification of SEND need across the Academy, ensuring a rigorous and thorough assessment process
* Being responsible for our SEND offer, ensuring high quality targeted interventions enabling students with SEND to make better progress
* Providing an effective programme of professional development with regard to SEND, in consultation with the SLG
* Being responsible for tracking the progress of students with SEND
* Deploying staff and resources according to the needs of SEND students.
* Writing a termly report to the Governing body on progress and developments
* Providing parental training and support for emerging and existing SEND needs
The Successful Candidate Will Have
* QTS (or equivalent) and an undergraduate degree
* Evidence of CPD relevant to the SENCO role (or willingness to undertake this training) and, ideally, SpLD Assessment Practising Certificate or equivalent qualification
* SEN experience in a secondary school
* The vision to develop the SENCO role within a high achieving grammar school
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