What skills and experience we're looking for
This is an exciting opportunity to join GLT / Sandy Lane Primary School as a SENCo. You will be responsible for inspiring and motivating the school community to develop effective ways of overcoming barriers to learning and promoting effective teaching and learning for children with specific needs. You'll be an experienced teacher with a passion for supporting pupils with special educational needs. Working closely with the Headship team and other senior colleagues, you will be a strategic leader of SEND provision, manage day-to-day provision and support teachers and support staff to deliver strong outcomes for all children.
Greenshaw Learning Trust is a highly successful multi academy trust that provides excellent quality, comprehensive, non-selective and inclusive education through primary schools and secondary schools. Our schools are based in London, Surrey, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth. We also have three shared service hubs with remote / hybrid working opportunities where appropriate. We are building a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing their own distinctive character. We thrive from collaboration at every level. We encourage a culture of sharing ideas and learning from one another. As a Trust of schools, we are ‘Always Learning’.
To get a feel of life at Greenshaw Learning Trust, please download our ‘Why you should work for GLT’ recruitment brochure on our jobs portal.
Main responsibilities to include:
To be a strategic leader of and actively champion inclusion across the school;
To provide professional development and support to colleagues across the school to secure the best possible outcomes for all children;
To take responsibility for the identification and monitoring/review/evaluation of the SEN needs within the school;
To regularly review the identification and placement of pupils with SEN on the SEN Register;
To ensure that appropriate information regarding the pupils’ SEN and support strategies are shared with all staff;
To review, refine and implement SEND and related policies to ensure best provision for our pupils.
Provide strategic leadership for the Specialist Resource Provision by identifying the strategic development and working in partnership, where appropriate, with Bracknell Forest Council.
Oversee the provision within the Specialist Resource Provision and line manage the teacher-in-charge of the Specialist Resource Provision.
You will need:
Degree or recognised qualification
Qualified Teacher Status
SENCo qualification (desirable) and/or commitment to engaging with NPQ SENCO (essential)
Evidence of training, experience and continuous professional development relevant to the post
What the school offers its staff
A supportive ethos and concern for the well-being of all colleagues
Excellent CPD opportunities and career progression
Employer contributions to Teachers Pension Scheme
Access to Blue Light Card Scheme
Access to Teacher Art Pass Scheme (teaching staff only)
Cycle to Work scheme
Gym membership scheme
Employee Assistance Programme
Free eye tests
Car benefit scheme
My Health discounts
Being part of a great team and expanding organisation
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 and social media 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.