Salary details: Leadership Scale: L1 – L5 (£49,781 - £54,939) Plus Extraneous Duties Allowance (Depending on qualifications and experience)
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Standard Teaching Hours
Interviews to be held: w/c 03 February 2025
About us
Chiltern Way Academy Trust (CWAT) provides cutting edge and transformational approaches to educating students with ASC and SEMH. We currently have seven campuses based across Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Hampshire.
The duties outlined in this job description are in addition to those covered by the latest School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document.
Accountability
1. Ensure that there is a strategic overview of provision for students with SEN across the school which maximises their potential.
2. To deliver the school’s SEN policy.
3. To monitor and evaluate the quality of teaching in interventions of students with SEN.
4. To monitor the effectiveness of intervention for students with SEN by outcome.
5. Lead and manage a team of SEN teachers and learning support assistants working directly with students with SEN and ensure that they are effectively deployed.
6. Ensure that the senior leadership team and governing body are informed about current good practice and legislation relating to SEN and inclusion and that policies and practices relating to SEN are up to date.
7. Liaise effectively with staff across the school, including pastoral, attendance and behaviour support teams, to ensure high quality provision for students with SEN.
8. Maintain an accurate SEN register and provision map to ensure that provision always meets the needs of students and statutory provision, including overseeing the identification and review of students with SEN.
9. Ensure user-friendly versions of needs and best practice with individual pupils is freely available to staff and regularly updated.
10. Ensure that Education and Health Care Plans (EHCPs) and other relevant documentation relating to students with SEN are regularly reviewed with students, parents and other agencies and recommendations made are implemented.
11. To ensure that exam concessions for students with SEN are carried out and implemented.
12. Monitor, analyse and report on assessment information and examination results for students with SEN to ensure that they make excellent progress.
13. Prepare for statutory assessments and ensure that all students with a statement of education have an annual review.
14. Lead and manage intervention relating to literacy, and numeracy.
15. Lead and manage interventions related to emotional and relational needs.
16. Support the transition of students between Key Stages, with transition leads.
17. Admissions completed as per admission policy.
Leadership
1. To support the development and implementation of the vision and strategic direction of the school reflecting its educational and moral aspirations and values.
2. To provide strategic leadership of provision for students with SEN across the school.
3. To lead and manage the SEN team.
4. To lead the process of monitoring and evaluation of SEN in line with agreed school policies and procedures, including evaluation against quality standards and performance criteria. To seek/implement modification and improvement where required.
5. To implement internal QA systems within SEN regarding tracking of student attainment, achievement, experience and support.
6. To pay due regard to the school’s equality policy and its application in the work of SEND student support system.
7. To promote the general progress and well-being of individual pupils and provide guidance and advice as necessary.
8. To participate in staff meetings which relate to curricular, guidance, administrative and organisational issues.
Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and accountabilities of the post, each individual task undertaken may not be identified. This Job Description is current at the date shown but following consultation with you, may be changed by Leadership to reflect or anticipate changes in the Job which are commensurate with the salary and Job Title.
About you
The successful candidate will have:
* A calm and positive attitude to all aspects of school life.
* A caring and sensitive attitude towards students.
* Ability to be a positive part of a successful team.
* Ability to foster a feeling of mutual respect in both students and adults.
* Ability to engender a feeling of control and security within the classroom.
* A commitment to the whole of school life.
* Vigour, enthusiasm and warmth.
* Ability to change, adapt, develop and improve.
For further information please see attached Person specification.
Other information
To find out more about this amazing opportunity please contact Hannah Moran, Director of SEND.
Chiltern Way is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
* All unspent convictions and conditional cautions.
* All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).
It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.
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