Assistant SENCO

As our Assistant Special Educational Needs Coordinator (Assistant SENCO), you will help us transform the lives of autistic children and young people. Working with the school’s senior leadership team and wider staff group, you will play a key role in helping us develop our provision for students with SEN or a disability, providing advice and guidance and promoting a culture that fosters good outcomes for our pupils.

You will be passionate about educational provision that transforms lives, and have relevant experience of working with people with special educational needs and / or in an educational setting. You will bring an understanding of autism and the regulations around special educational needs and disability, together with an organised, professional approach and the emotional intelligence to work effectively with a range of challenges.

The role is based at our Church Lawton School in Staffordshire. You will work 37 hours a week for 45.8 weeks of the year - salary is reduced pro rata to reflect the nature of the role as principally term-time-only.

We offer a competitive salary and pension, as well as a range of benefits and a focus on staff well-being. More importantly, we offer the opportunity to play a part in highly rewarding work, as part of an ambitious and supportive team.

Liberty is a small Trust of three academies, with plans to grow so that our reach and impact can extend further. We are committed to providing an excellent education for autistic children and young people, our approach is to support the whole child, offering a balance of personalised teaching and therapeutic support as standard.

We opened our Church Lawton School in 2015 providing a curriculum for students from across the spectrum who have a range of learning needs. This covers an age range from age 4 to age 19, building each child’s development week by week, term by term and year by year.