Secondary SENDCO
Ark John Keats Academy
Enfield
- New
- Salary:
- Ark MPS or UPS (Outer London) £35,368- £47,152 or £49,498- £53,230, with TLR1B £11,407 depending on experience.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- April/ September 2024
- Apply by:
- 24 January 2025
Job overview
Secondary SENDCO
Location: Enfield – easily accessible from central, north, and east London, as well as surrounding areas.
Salary: Ark MPS or UPS (Outer London) £37,313- £49,745 or £52,221- £56,157, with TLR1B £12.035 depending on experience.
Working pattern: Full-time (Flexible/Part-time working will be considered)
Contract: Permanent
Start date: April/ September 2025
Closing date: 24th January 2025
We will be reviewing applications on an on-going basis and this advert may close earlier than advertised depending on the level of response.
Ark John Keats is an exceptional school looking to hire exceptional people.
DESCRIPTION OF THE POST:
We are looking to appoint an excellent leader to join our team as SENDCO. You would be joining a highly ambitious team of leaders and teachers at a pivotal point in the school’s journey as we build on the foundations of our school and continue to improve our provisions to ensure that all students are able to drive their own destinies and lead a life of genuine choice.
Key Responsibilities
The Role
Establish and deliver clear and consistent structures for the identification and support of pupils with barriers to learning including all students who have special needs.
Lead, develop and enhance the teaching practice and support strategies for all staff across the Academy in relation to inclusion needs
Effectively line manage and deploy support staff across the curriculum and ensure they add value to the students’ experience
Monitor the impact of teaching and learning activities on the progress of students receiving support and identify any gaps in provision or delivery.
Be accountable for students with special needs.
Produce, with team, an analysis of achievements and areas for development
Develop ongoing self-evaluation strategies in line with SEF to inform future practice
Contribute to the Academy Improvement Plan that reflects the key areas of SEF
Reflect the real targets for improvement in a realistic, time phased and appropriate manner
Hold regular meetings with pupil support team to reflect on progress, strategies to secure improvement and share good practice.
Meet regularly with line manager to ensure needs of department are being addressed and that there is effective support for your needs.
Outcomes and Activities
Leading Inclusion
Model outstanding teaching and lead collaborative planning and development, including the sharing of resources and best practices within the department.
Develop strategies to ensure the early identification of pupils with additional needs.
Identify effective practices that will support the pupils. Disseminate these and train all staff where appropriate.
Induct, train and mentor all learning support staff
Maintain the SEND Hub and Sensory Space as a calm and safe learning environment for all students.
Monitor teaching and learning activities to ensure they meet the needs of students with special educational needs.
Lead a team of staff ensuring a sense of purpose and pride in their work
Work closely with HOYs to ensure they have the fullest understanding of the needs of students with SEND and are party to all strategies.
Liaise with subject leaders to ensure they contribute to, and support inclusion strategies and departmental teams strongly support team teaching.
Liaise with parents and students providing guidance at key moments of transition
Liaise with external agencies to support students and transition arrangements
Monitoring of pupil progress
Co-ordinate the identification, assessment, and monitoring processes for all students with SEND, including the management of SEND register and review processes.
Lead on the production and monitoring reviews of ILPs for students who have special needs.
Use assessment to identify and track specific students and targeted groups
Draw up behaviour contracts and pastoral support plans in conjunction with other key staff. Track and review these plans.
Ensure the totality of performance is reviewed, incorporating tutor effectiveness, where appropriate.
Other
To undertake, and when required, deliver or be part of the appraisal system and relevant training and professional development
To undertake, within reason, other various responsibilities as directed by the Headteacher or Principal.
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About Ark John Keats Academy
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We are delighted to introduce you to Ark John Keats Academy. The academy is a 3 to 18 all-through school in Enfield, with a mixed comprehensive intake. We opened our doors to our first Reception classes in September 2013 and our first cohort of year 7 pupils joined us in September 2014. We currently have over 1700 pupils on roll from Nursery to Year 13.
Ark John Keats is a very proud member of the successful Ark network of schools. Our curriculum is academic, planned to prepare pupils for the best universities by emphasising mastery of knowledge and skills. Our teaching staff are experts in their subject areas and all staff at the academy share a commitment to upholding the highest expectations. We have created an academy that is renowned for its calm, orderly and purposeful environment and where pupils behave maturely and respectfully.
We have developed a character programme to support the development of our pupils, and we ensure pupils develop their wider interests and passions by allowing our pupils access to a variety of enrichment activities, ranging from chess and coding to football and political art. We support pupils in raising their aspirations by helping them understand the structure, importance and value of school. We inspire their thinking about their futures through university and workplace visits and through our external speaker programme, where visitors speak to pupils about their career choices and educational experiences. We are also committed to developing our staff and we ensure they master all aspects of their work and are brilliantly prepared for the next stage of their careers. The academy has first class facilities having undergone an £18 million rebuilding and refurbishment programme that was completed in December 2015.
We are very excited by what we have achieved so far and new staff and pupils will be joining a school with a wonderful ethos, where local children are provided with a first class education. We are intent on developing a school that will match the very best in both the state and private sectors and is a source of pride for the people of north east Enfield.
Principal
Katie Marshall
Primary Headteacher
Emma Penzer
Vision and Values
At Ark John Keats, we aspire for all our children to have the academic knowledge necessary to enable them to progress to university, for pupils to have a love of learning and curiosity about the world, and for them to be polite, well-mannered young people who take responsibility for their choices and drive their own destinies.
The academy’s approach to achieving this is based on our six pillars:
- High expectations: Every adult who works at AJK believes in the limitless potential of all children.
- Excellent teaching: Subject specialists plan lessons focused on rigorous content which make pupils work hard and think deeply about the subject, fostering their curiosity and love of learning.
- Exemplary behaviour: Pupils are unfailingly polite and well-mannered individuals who take responsibility for their own actions and seek to help others whenever they can.
- Depth for breadth: Our rich, challenging curriculum builds pupils’ cultural capital to ensure they can all be knowledgeable, articulate and university ready.
- Knowing every child: Our teachers know and care about every child they interact with, proactively building strong and positive relationships between school and home.
- Always learning: Our continuous professional development, co-planning meetings and coaching ensure teachers feel stretched and supported, able to develop as teachers and leaders in a long-term career at Ark John Keats.
Ofsted and Performance Data
The academy was inspected in April 2015 and was judged outstanding in every area
We see the outstanding judgement only as a validation of the progress we have made to date. We are determined to provide an unrivalled standard of education for local children and know we have more to do to achieve this. Our focus will remain unwaveringly on the further development of exceptional practice within each of our pillars:
- A curriculum that provides challenge, academic rigour, cultural literacy and systematic progression as well as opportunities for pupils to develop key learning dispositions and their literacy and numeracy skills.
- Teaching that is highly effective and high quality support for staff in developing their practice.
- Strong discipline through the highly consistent application of our routines and techniques by all staff. Development of character through the Character programme.
- Raising aspirations through high quality teaching, the speaker programme, university visits and working with external partners.
- Widening pupils’ horizons through a high quality enrichment programme that all staff contribute to.
- Setting high expectations in everything we do and working collaboratively to ensure staff and pupils can meet these expectations.
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