Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Coordinator (SENDCO)
Park Lane Primary School and Nursery
Warwickshire
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- Asap
- Apply by:
- 11 October 2024
Job overview
Purpose of the Role
· To be responsible for leading and developing SEND provision by implementing the SEND Code of Practice and Equality Act
· To support/lead as appropriate and encourage learning which enables students who require access to support for learning to achieve high standards
· To ensure the School meets all its statutory duties in relation to the education and care of students on the SEND register
· To monitor and support the overall progress and development of students with special educational needs and disabilities
· To effectively manage and deploy HLTAs, TAs, financial and physical resources
· To prepare an annual Support for Learning Department Development Plan and evaluate its implementation annually.
· To prepare and update on an on-going basis a Support for Learning Department Self Evaluation Form.
Main Duties
· Strategic direction and development of SEND provision in the School
· Ensure the School meets all its statutory and local duties in relation to the education and care of students with SEND to ensure reasonable adjustments and access arrangements.
· Have a strategic overview of provision for pupils with SEN or a disability across the school, monitoring and reviewing the quality of provision.
· Actively lead the development of policy and practice concerning the education and care of students with SEND.
· Liaise with staff, families, external agencies and other schools to co-ordinate their contribution to the education and care of students with SEND.
· To keep up-to-date with and respond to local and national developments in SEND education and care.
· Ensure the objectives of the SEND Policy are reflected in the Department Development Plan, that effective systems are in place to identify and meet those needs and that they are coordinated, monitored, evaluated and reviewed.
· Provide regular information to the Headteacher and Governing Body on the progress of SEND students, along with an evaluation of the effectiveness of provision for students with SEND.
· Maintain an accurate SEND register and provision map. Lead on procedures for early identification of need, support, monitoring and assessment.
· Be responsible for diagnostic testing and base line assessments of students with SEND or those identified as requiring additional support.
· To work closely with staff who have responsibility for other vulnerable groups (e.g. Children who are Looked After and students with English as a Second Language) to offer support for students with SEND or additional needs.
· To lead Early Help meetings and multi-agency reviews
· To have oversight of students’ with physical and medical needs.
Teaching, Learning and Assessment
• Identify, model and disseminate the most effective teaching and learning approaches for students with SEND and additional needs.
• Contribute to whole school priorities as an advocate for pupils with SEND and additional needs.
• Undertake an appropriate timetable of teaching in accordance with the duties of a teacher. This will be approximately a 50% timetable.
• Ensure all members of staff recognise and fulfil their statutory responsibility to students with SEND and additional needs, championing their cause at all times.
• Ensure all ECHP documentation are appropriately prepared and reviewed and formal assessments carried out as necessary.
· Prepare costed Individual Education Plans (IEPs), where required. Regular liaison with Plan coordinators and review of Top Up Funding to ensure students are receiving appropriate provision.
· Closely monitor and review progress of students with an EHCP or SEND support, provide guidance to colleagues on teaching pupils with SEN or a disability, and advise on the graduated approach to SEN support. Identify and implement personalised programmes where necessary.
To find out more about Park Lane Primary School and the Trust, please visit:
https://www.griffinschoolstrust.org/
For a confidential discussion with the school in advance of applying, contact Alex Ladbury on 02476 382 924
About Park Lane Primary School and Nursery
- Park Lane Primary School and Nursery
- Park Lane, Nuneaton
- Warwickshire
- CV10 8NL
- United Kingdom
About the Griffin Schools Trust
The Griffin Schools Trust (GST) is a family of ten primary and two secondary schools in the Midlands, London and South East. We have a strong track record in making schools much better for children and their families and for the staff who work with us. Our single most important mission is to provide the conditions in which children discover who they are and then go on confidently to take their places in society, making a contribution to the world through the use of their talents. We will never prepare children to know their places.
When schools decide to join us they bring their histories to us and together we turn them into traditions reflecting the Trust’s mission and values whilst preserving and extending the each school’s individuality. We offer a rich curriculum and an unusual range of enrichment and extension clubs and activities. We also have shared traditions so that children form every school feel part of the same family. Every summer term we hold the Griffin Arts Festival. In the spring we have Founders Day and the Science Symposium and in the autumn students compete in the Griffin Science Symposium. All these festivals are linked in an annual theme schools’ four houses compete for a Trust cup which is awarded to the house colour which has accumulated most points from all Trust events. All staff, including the CEO, belong to a house.
Great GST schools have nothing institutional about them and great GST staff are thoughtfully recruited for their excellent knowledge and their broad interests. They are developed by Heads as well as the research and training opportunities offered across the Trust to add their individual magic to the mix. All our schools practice open and distributed leadership and place a high value on creativity as well as growing great talent pipelines to ensure that there are plenty of opportunities for promotion within and beyond the school.
Look at our website and click through to some of the schools as well as the one to which you are applying. We are frequently told that colleagues have found their professional home at GST. Is it yours? We look forward to hearing from you.
Anne Powell
Chief Executive Officer
Please note that you are wholly responsible for fact checking in respect of the information provided by schools. Please also check for the latest visa and work permit requirements that may apply. Tes is not responsible for the content of advertisements or the policies adopted by advertising schools. Tes asks that all schools follow Tes' Fair Recruitment Policy.