Specialist Teacher - Social Emotional Mental Health and Learning Team (SEMHandL)
An exciting opportunity to join the specialist teacher's peripatetic team within the Social, Emotional, Mental Health and Learning Team (SEMH&L). Due to continued increased buy-in from Coventry schools, we are expanding our team.
This is an opportunity to work in the well-regarded SEMHL Team as part of Coventry SEND Support Service. The team is committed to securing good and outstanding SEN practice, supporting pupils, families, SENCos, and all school staff to meet the increasingly diverse range of needs and competing challenges around SEMH&L.
This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and as such, appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
Who are we looking for?
You should:
1. Be a good to outstanding practitioner with a passion for SEN.
2. Have a genuine interest in achieving the best outcomes for pupils with SEND.
3. Have a flexible, creative, solution-focused approach.
4. Be able to work well in a team and independently using your own initiative.
5. Be committed to the inclusion of all pupils.
6. Be able to work across primary and secondary schools.
In your personal statement, you should focus on:
1. Your expertise and experience in both learning and wellbeing support.
2. Your understanding of what inclusive practice is and your approach to enabling and supporting others to develop their inclusive practice within an educational setting.
3. Your experience working with colleagues in education and families and the sensitivities needed to enable successful cooperative working.
Please contact Sally Longden for further information or to arrange an informal conversation at sally.longden@coventry.gov.uk.
For full details on the application process, please read the attached document labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'.
Interview date: 13 February 2025.
About Coventry
Coventry has a proud, innovative, and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change. We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant, and diverse.
At Coventry, we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around 5100 staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together, and find better ways of doing things.
If you join us, we will provide a fantastic rewards and benefits package - to find out more please visit Coventry City Council Vacancies.
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