SENCo
Ditton Park Academy
Slough
- Expired
- Salary:
- Responsibility & salary is negotiable upon calibre and experience of applicants
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2018
- Apply by:
- 11 March 2018
Job overview
This is a great opportunity for an ambitious SENCo to join the academy and a small core team to drive standards, ethos, vision and expectations in a brand new, oversubscribed school. We moved into our brand new £19 million building in September 2017.
Ditton Park Academy is the first school opened by The SASH Education Trust (Slough Association for Secondary Headteachers) and we benefit enormously from the support and collaboration of the 13 secondary Head teachers in Slough. Another SASH School (Grove Academy) opened in September 2017 as an all through school for 3-18 year olds making us now a Multi Academy Trust.
The ideal candidate will be:
- a qualified teacher educated to degree level
- a passionate classroom practitioner
- an advocate for young people
- someone with clear potential to learn and improve
- innovative, creative, resilient and dynamic
- an excellent communicator who has a positive attitude to life and work
- experienced colleagues need to be able to demonstrate impact in their current role.
Please contact Sarah Cuthbert for a recruitment pack at S.Cuthbert@dittonparkacademy.co.uk or visit our website www.dittonparkacademy.co.uk
Closing date: 10am, Monday 19 March 2018
Interviews to be held: Tuesday 27 March 2018
Ditton Park Academy is committed to safeguarding children; successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
About Ditton Park Academy
About Ditton Park Academy
Ditton Park Academy is a mixed, mainstream secondary school located in Slough, Berkshire. The academy has a sixth form and educates students within the 11-19 age range. Currently, there are 1100 pupils and we are heavily oversubscribed.
We are a local, co-educational community Academy serving the young people and their families in the South-East of Slough in the Kings Reach Estate just off Upton Court Park. Ditton Park Academy opened in 2014 and moved into a multi-million-pound purpose-built building in 2017. The academy is part of an innovative collaboration between the headteachers of the 13 secondary schools in Slough (SASH).
Values and vision
Ditton Park Academy promotes an ethos of “active citizens”, whereby students are empowered to participate in decision making and provide input into the wellbeing, public service and economic sufficiency of their community. To help students achieve this, the academy is focused on providing an excellent teaching and learning environment that is inclusive and caters for students as individuals.
The academy’s aim is to provide educational and workplace opportunities that are geared towards maximising achievement. Teachers work hard to deliver the right curriculum for students, along with a wide range of extra-curricular and enrichment opportunities.
All visitors will notice, when they visit, how proud the students and staff are of our Academy.
Nick Caulfield
Principal
Address: Kings Reach, Slough, Berkshire, SL3 7UX, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1753 537594
Website: http://www.dittonparkacademy.co.uk/
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