SEN Administrator

Are you organised, detail-oriented, and passionate about supporting students with Special Educational Needs (SEN)? Longfield Academy has an exciting opportunity for a SEN Administrator to join our dedicated and friendly team. This role is pivotal in ensuring the smooth operation of our SEN provision, helping our students achieve their full potential.

As the face of our SEN provision, the successful candidate will excel in creating a warm, professional, and welcoming environment for visitors, staff, and students alike. This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase your organisational and communication skills while playing a vital role in the daily life of our academy.

We’re looking for someone who:

• Enjoys variety and thrives in a busy environment, managing tasks with efficiency and calm, even when the day is full of activity.
• Values confidentiality and professionalism, handling sensitive information with maturity, tact, and discretion.
• Brings excellent IT skills, confidently using Microsoft Office applications to produce documents, manage data, and ensure accurate record-keeping.
• Is adaptable and resourceful, responding flexibly to the evolving needs of a vibrant school setting while maintaining a focus on delivering exceptional support.
• Loves building positive relationships, whether working with staff, students, parents/carers, or external agencies.
• Has a calm and confident communication style, ensuring information is conveyed clearly and interactions are handled with care and professionalism across all channels – face-to-face, over the phone, or via email.
• Thrives under pressure, prioritising effectively to meet deadlines while maintaining a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Is passionate about providing excellent customer service, going above and beyond to support the needs of the SEN provision and the wider school community.

Your role will be varied, meaningful, and integral to the success of our SEN provision, offering you the chance to truly make a difference every day.

If you’re ready to bring your skills and enthusiasm to Longfield Academy, we’d love to hear from you. Join us in our mission to provide outstanding support for students with SEN and contribute to an environment where every child can thrive.

This is a fixed term position working 37 hours per week, term time + 1 week of inset and offers an actual salary of £20,347 per annum (£23,656 full-time equivalent), based on experience.

If you have any queries on any aspect of the application process or need additional information please contact Amy Wenban (Recruitment Advisor) on amy.wenban@latrust.org.uk.

Working with us: Longfield Academy offers a friendly and supportive working environment with innovation and collaboration at the heart of everything we do. The academy is recognised as an International Baccalaureate (IB) world school and delivers the Middle Years Programme (MYP) to students in years 7 -9. Our most recent inspection in 2018 confirmed that Longfield Academy continues to provide strong educational outcomes for students. The richness of our extracurricular activities allows our students to excel in drama, music, sports and STEM. Leaders of the academy are highly ambitious for all of the students. We have a strong drive for school improvement underpinned by a relentless focus on the core business of improving teaching and learning. We do not limit that ambition to the outcomes of public examinations; our students being prepared for life is equally as important to everyone at the academy. Our pastoral system is truly exceptional and we pride ourselves on the quality of care for every student. Our Post-16 provision continues to go from strength to strength, rated in the top 10% for Kent, with our students securing places at top universities.

Longfield Academy benefits from modern, state-of-the-art facilities for learning across all subject areas. We have a thorough and robust approach to school improvement, and the academy is well on course to becoming a truly Outstanding school.

The school is heavily oversubscribed in year 7 and year 12. For more information about our academy, please click here.

Being part of Leigh Academies Trust: As of 1st September 2024, our Trust comprises 33 geographically organised academies (17 secondaries, 14 primaries and 2 special) educating more than 24,000 students and employing 4,000 talented staff. Currently, 14 of our academies are considered to be “Outstanding” which is nearly 50% of those which have been inspected whilst part of the Trust. The Trust is establishing three ‘clusters’ of academies: LAT Central; LAT North; LAT West. In addition, the Trust is responsible for one of the region’s biggest initial teaching training organisations, a large teaching school hub and is an accredited apprenticeship provider. Our future plans are found in our Vision 2030 document available on our website.

As part of Leigh Academies Trust, you will have ample opportunity to collaborate with your peers both within the academy and across the whole Trust. This is an important part of our vision as we know through experience that we perform better when we work together. You are supported to undertake regular self-development to continue your professional development and hopefully progress further within the organisation.

Click here to view the benefits available to all LAT employees from day one.

Our commitment to safeguarding: Leigh Academies Trust and all of our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process across all academies and business units which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates - you can read more about this in our Recruitment Guidance. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

Our commitment to equality and diversity: As a Trust, we are passionate about diversity and recognise that as individuals, we all bring something unique to the role regardless of any protected characteristics which is why we treat all of our people equally, without compromise. We are committed to providing equality and fairness throughout our recruitment and employment practices and not discriminating on any grounds.

Based on the quality and quantity of applications received, Leigh Academies Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy sooner than the specified closing date. Applicants will be notified of this where possible. Therefore, early applications are encouraged.