Call/email Alisdair at Integritas Education to get an application form and to receive a full job description

This special needs school is part of a UK wide group of 30 Special Needs Schools with residences attached.

Assistant Head teacher & SENDCo

Location: Tokers Green, Reading
Salary – £47,185 – £50,807 (L1 – L4)
Full time permanent position, starting September 2024

This NEW SEN school in Reading, Berkshire is due to open in November 2024, supporting young people aged 6 -16 with a diagnosis of Autism spectrum disorder, moderate to Severe Learning needs and associated difficulties, who require an individualised, specialist approach

Essential Qualifications

• QTS
• SENDCo or willingness to achieve within 2 years.

Desirable Qualifications

• Accredited training in specific areas of special education,
• Management/leadership qualification

Essential Experience

• Proven track record of excellent creative and structured teaching within relevant key stages and/or special needs environment.
• Experience of working within the guidelines set out in the SEND Code of Practice.
• Experience of holding responsibility for and turning policy into effective and successful practice.
• Leadership of a significant area or phase or inclusion, including responsibility for raising standards across the whole school.
• Effective team management and working collaboratively and effectively with others.
• Communicating effectively to a wide range of different audiences though a range of different mediums.
• Successful management of complex scenarios and conflict resolution
• Effective relationships working successfully with a range of external agencies.

Benefits:

• Life assurance
• Competitive Pension
• Perkbox – offering high street discounts
• Employee assistance programme
• Car lease scheme
• Fully funded training and qualifications
• Bike to work scheme
• Free membership to our Health cash back plan – Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.

Job Summary

• To work with the Head teacher as part of the senior Leadership team in all aspects of leadership and management and to take responsibility for managing and developing learning and teaching, curriculum, assessment, and enrichment throughout the designated phases of the school.
• To take a central role in assisting the Head teacher, to develop our school in accordance with its shared values and our school development plans.
• To develop the schools Special Education Needs (SEN) provision and oversight of the day-to-day operation of that policy with the aim of raising SEN pupil achievement.
• To ensure each pupil’s EHCP paperwork, review, reports and actions are undertaken within statutory timescales
• To hold the role and responsibility for the designated teacher for the school, with responsibility for helping develop strategies and protocols, and understanding the issues which can affect how both looked-after and previously looked-after children learn and achieve, including attending PEP meetings, ensuring all relevant paperwork is completed within timescales and to a high standard
• To carry out any other reasonable duties that the Head teacher may request in support of the effective running of the school.

Integritas Education Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment business for this position.

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and we are therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are “spent” unless they are “protected” under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.

As a result of the volume of applications, If we have not contacted you within two weeks of your application being received, then regretfully your application will not be taken forward on this occasion.