Deputy SENDCo/ English teacher

Deputy SENDCO/Teacher of English

Salary: United Learning Pay Scale up to £48,050 + TLR2 £4,434

Job type: Full Time, Permanent

Apply by: 11th October 2024

Interviews: Week commencing 14th October 2024

The purpose of Deputy SENDCo is to ensure outstanding provision and inclusive practice for all children with additional needs across the school, thereby facilitating the best possible academic and social outcomes. The Deputy SENDCo has a critical role in raising standards of attainment for disadvantaged learners, both academic and pastoral, to ensure that a quality education is provided for all students regardless of their ability.  

General Requirements

• To ensure that Academy practice is compliant with the SEND Code of Practice (2014) and other relevant statutory requirements. 
• To support maintaining the Academy's SEND Profile, ensuring that it is always up-to-date and is an accurate picture of student SEND need across the Academy. 
• To contribute to the responsibility for the Academy SEND Offer, ensuring high quality targeted interventions enabling students with SEND to make better progress. 
• Contribute to improving the high expectations of students in the English department, 
• Contribute to inspiring, developing, innovating and invigorating the teaching of English at Irlam and Cadishead Academy. 
• To support the SENDCo in the regular tracking and analysis of student data (and department tracking systems) and implementing appropriate interventions to tackle underachievement at Key Stage 4; 

Through setting high standards of academic achievement and delivering an education with character, we strive to bring out ‘the best in everyone’.

Our approach is underpinned by our core values:

- Respect – for ourselves and others in all that we do;

- Enthusiasm – to seek opportunity, find what is good and pursue talents and interests;

- Ambition – to achieve the best for ourselves and others;

- Determination – to overcome obstacles and reach success.

United Learning is a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer life-changing education to children and young people across England.

Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum, and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.

As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff's wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone.

Our pledge, to all our academy teachers, is that by working for us you will benefit from more pay, more time, and more support. 

More pay…

• We pay an average of 5% above national scales – the best rates of pay in the sector

 •  Cash towards medical treatment

 •  Generous staff discount scheme

more time…

•   Three extra INSET days for planning

•   At least one personal day a year

and more support

•  Great training for your career

 •  Exceptional curriculum resources

 •  Expert subject advice

 •  Support for your wellbeing