Salary:
TPS + TLR + SEN
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
April 2025
Apply by:
7 February 2025
Job overview
An exciting and rare opportunity to join one of the UK's leading schools for the deaf in a leadership role.
We are seeking to appoint a SENDCO to lead our highly experienced and skilled support team who meet the special educational needs of our deaf pupils.
The SENDCO will be responsible for the day-to-day interventions for our pupils who have additional educational needs to their deafness as well as contributing to our future strategic development.
We look forward to appointing an enthusiastic and committed professional who can bring additional expertise and leadership skills to our team.
A brief overview of the SENDCO's tasks will be to:
* Determine the strategic development of special educational needs (SEN) policy and provision in the school
* Be responsible for day-to-day operation of the SEN policy and co-ordination of specific provision to support individual pupils with SEN or a disability
* Provide professional guidance to colleagues, working closely with staff, parents and other agencies
* The SENDCO will also be expected to fulfil the professional responsibilities of a teacher, as set out in the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document
To apply for this role, you must complete our Mary Hare application form in full with a covering letter.
* Please be aware that we will not accept a C.V. for this position. For Safer Recruiting purposes we will only accept a completed Mary Hare application form, which can be downloaded during the application process.
Start Date: From April 2025
Application Deadline: 7th February 2025
Interviews: 12th & 13th February 2025
Mary Hare is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to an Enhanced DBS Disclosure check.
About Mary Hare School
* Mary Hare School
* Arlington Manor, Snelsmore Common, Newbury
* Berkshire
* RG14 3BQ
* United Kingdom
+44 1635 244200
Our vision
That all deaf children should receive the education and support which will enable them to achieve their full potential at home, school and in their subsequent careers.
Objectives
* Achieve the highest possible standards of educating deaf children, from early learning to tertiary education
* Be a major influence of national policy, practice and guidance in relation to deaf children and their education
* Enable families to achieve their vision and aspirations for their deaf child
* Support deaf children and young people in their emotional and social well-being
* Be recognised as a key provider of the highest quality training for all practitioners working with deaf children and young people
* Provide consultancy, advisory support, assessment and technical services that support the vision
Our history
Towards the end of the 19th Century, a number of prominent women were beginning to influence events in ways which were to have a profound effect on developments in 20th Century society. One such woman was the educationalist Miss Mary Hare. Her vision was that deaf children were capable of realising the full potential of their intellect and that they had no need of shelter from the rigours of hearing society in the growing number of asylums for the deaf and dumb. Such shelter served only to deny them opportunities and fundamental rights. She set about overturning the short-sighted view that the deaf child's prime needs were for care and protection, by establishing a small school in London in 1883. By 1916 this centre of learning had blossomed into the Dene Hollow Oral School for the Deaf based in Sussex and widely regarded as one of the best schools for deaf children in the Kingdom. During these twenty or so years of growth and development, Mary Hare had been able to show that her vision was not only justified and realistic, but achievable.
It was to honour the great contribution that this pioneer had made to the education of deaf children, that shortly after her death in 1945, Dene Hollow School was redesignated as the National Grammar School for the Deaf. Bearing her name, The Mary Hare Grammar School came to serve the needs of potentially able severely and profoundly deaf children throughout the United Kingdom. The rapid growth that this change brought necessitated a move to larger premises, and in 1948 the school acquired and occupied its present beautiful site close to Newbury in Berkshire. It is our hope that half a century after Mary Hare's death, the achievements of our pupils today still serve to honour her name and her vision.
Local information and facilities
Newbury is a market town located in West Berkshire in England in the UK with good bus, rail and road links and is located 50 miles south west of London. There are a wide selection of hotels in Newbury offering good hotel accommodation and bed and breakfast accommodation for visitors in and around Newbury. The Kennet and Avon Canal dissects the town which has many historical buildings and places of interest including the Corn Exchange Theatre and the Museum by the Canal. The Newbury Racecourse is within 1 mile of the town centre and nearby are Highclere Castle, Donnington Castle, Snelsmore Countryside Park, the Ridgeway, the Downs and a host of other attractions.
School Information
Mary Hare School is the largest school for profoundly and severely deaf children in the UK. Mary Hare teaches using an auditory oral approach, so that children learn through spoken and written English – no sign language is used in teaching. The school has maintained a high standard, with over 85% of pupils gaining 5 or more GCSEs for the last 5 years and 95 % pass rate at A level. Nearly all leavers go on to further education.
The school is part of a large national charity and benefits from the additional activities of the Mary Hare Charity. An active fundraising department and various trading activities generate funds to support the development of the school. The Training Division provides opportunities for teachers to attend national and international conferences organised on site. The Training Division also offers post-graduate courses including the mandatory qualification for Teachers of the Deaf and the MSc in Educational Audiology and MA in Special Education (Hearing Impairment).
Mary Hare also has an Arts Centre on site, which houses the school’s music and performing arts department, but also offers a programme of arts events including music, theatre dance and comedy.
For further information please visit our website: www.maryhare.org.uk
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