Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Coordinator (SENDCo)
Hall Green School
Birmingham
- New
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS3 + TLR 2.3 (£7,763), pay award pending
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Easter 2025 (or sooner)
- Apply by:
- 27 November 2024
Job overview
We are currently seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, dynamic and well-qualified Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Coordinator (SENDCo), a colleague who can:
- Provide strategic direction and development of the SEND provision
- Assist with teaching and learning and pastoral needs
- Lead and manage staff, ensuring efficient and effective deployment of staff and resources
- Work as part of the school’s Middle Leadership Team
You will have a proven track record of raising achievement for different groups of students through a wide range of support and intervention strategies. The successful candidate will work with the Assistant Headteacher (Inclusion) to strategically direct and coordinate the provision for students with a range of additional needs in SEND, leading a highly committed and experienced team. You will be supported in your role by a highly experienced, committed non-teaching Administrative Assistant to the SENDCo, in addition to a large team of dedicated Teaching Assistants.
This role is ideal for a colleague seeking to progress into middle leadership, offering an excellent opportunity to develop leadership skills within the SEND provision. While full qualification as a SENDCo is not required initially, a commitment to pursuing the National Award for SEND Coordination is essential, with support provided for professional development in this area.
Hall Green School is a very popular, heavily oversubscribed and academically successful 11–16 Converter Academy. We are a highly diverse institution, both ethnically and as a fully accessible mainstream school, attracting pupils from across the city with physical disabilities and other special educational needs. We have wonderful students who fully contribute to the school’s ‘caring, nurturing and inclusive culture’, described by Ofsted (2019) as ‘a welcoming and inclusive school’ where ‘pupils are happy, and they achieve well’, and the ‘positive relationships between pupils and staff are a hallmark of the school’.
Most importantly, we are looking for a candidate who shares the school’s approach and commitment to inclusion and the success and wellbeing of its young people. You are warmly invited to speak to the Assistant Headteacher and to make an appointment to visit the school in action.
For further details and an application pack, please see the school website www.hallgreen.bham.sch.uk or email recruitment@hallgreen.bham.sch.uk.
Please note that all applicants must complete the school’s application form only. Any other form of application or CVs alone will not be accepted.
Closing date: 9.00 am on Wednesday 27 November 2024.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016), and therefore, the ability to speak and write fluently in English is an essential requirement for this role.
Hall Green School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all those working at the school to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to the following checks: enhanced DBS, Childcare Disqualification (where applicable), a prohibition from teaching (where applicable), qualifications (where applicable), medical fitness, identity and right to work. All applicants will also be required to provide two suitable references.
About Hall Green School
- Hall Green School
- Southam Road, Hall Green, Birmingham
- West Midlands
- B28 0AA
- United Kingdom
Founded in 1964, Hall Green began as a foundation school administered by Birmingham City Council. It converted to academy status in September 2012 but often coordinates with Birmingham City Council for admissions.
We are a popular, vibrant and successful school with a track record of high standards and successful outcomes for pupils of all backgrounds and ability. As a Fully Accessible Mainstream school which fully reflects the local area, the diversity of our school community enriches all our lives and has earned the school an enviable reputation for inclusion.
Headteacher
Miss K Slater
Mission Statement
‘Learning together, shaping the future’
Values and Aims
Hall Green is a school that continually seeks to build on the successes of the past and adapt to the needs of the future and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all its pupils. In a changing world, we continue to focus on the essentials that make Hall Green successful: the quality of our teaching and learning; personal pastoral care for every individual in the school; strong relationships with parents, carers and the wider community.
Our governors and staff are committed to providing the very best for the children in our care.
Our aims are that:
- Every pupil makes outstanding progress.
- Every pupil leaves with personal belief in and aspiration for their own successful future, and as a result takes responsibility for their learning.
- Every pupil has the skills and attitudes to make a positive contribution to society as an active and engaged citizen.
- Every pupil shows care and respect for others.
- Every pupil values and celebrates diversity.
- Every pupil is aware of and sympathetic to the needs of others, particularly those less fortunate than themselves.
- We call this our Journey to Outstanding.
Ofsted Report
We can now proudly share with you our most recent Ofsted report. We feel it reflects a number of key strengths including our inclusive ethos, attitude towards learning, success and togetherness. Thanks to all members of the hard-working Hall Green community, as we continue on our “Journey to Outstanding”.
https://www.hallgreen.bham.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Hall-Green-School-2019-Final-Report.pdf
School Prospectus
https://www.hallgreen.bham.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Prospectus-Alternate-Cover-2.pdf
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