Assistant Principal - SENCO & Safeguarding

Job details

Job role: - Assistant headteacher - SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)

Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5

Working pattern: Full time: 37.5 hours a week.

Contract type: Permanent

Pay scale: United Learning Leadership Pay Scale, Starting £65,520

What skills and experience we're looking for

• • Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
• The National Award for SEND Coordination (or willingness to achieve it)
• Proven leadership experience, ideally at middle or senior level
• A strong track record of improving outcomes for students with SEND
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• A commitment to inclusive education and safeguarding
• Professional development in preparation for a senior leadership role
• A good honours degree
• An excellent teacher with successful experience in teaching own subject
• Successful senior leadership experience
• Experience of leading at a senior level within a successful school
• Evidence of work that has led directly to positive outcomes for students
• Effective understanding of school improvement planning
• The ability to use data to evaluate performance and take effective action on the basis of data
• Experience of, and proven skills with, manipulating, analysing, and reporting with data to a range of audiences
• A knowledge of curriculum developments and opportunities
• Experience in contributing to staff development
• Understanding of high-quality teaching, and the ability to model this for others and support others to improve
• Involvement in self-evaluation and improvement planning
• Experience of working in inner city multi-cultural school settings
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Committed to an ethos of high standards, personal fulfilment, and academic success.
• An innovative and forward-thinking strategist
• Capacity to inspire through leadership, energy and vision
• The ability to relate well to our whole community
• Demonstrated leadership through example and has a research-informed and solution-focussed approach
• Able to react positively to challenges, seeing them as opportunities rather than barriers
• Committed to maintaining confidentiality at all times
• Committed to safeguarding and equality
• Eager to acquire further skills and career enhancement
• A sense of humour and the ability to remain calm under pressure
• Able to retain a sense of perspective
• Ability to establish positive and sensitive interpersonal relationships within the community
• Ability to lead a team, involving people and delegating appropriately
• Ability to work proactively and independently
• Ability to work under pressure, plan time effectively and meet required deadlines
• A clear awareness of whole school management issues
• An understanding of the management of change
• An understanding of people management
• Experience of effective self-evaluation methodology
• Successful experience of budget control and resource management
• Experience of holding people to account in a supportive yet challenging way, taking action when needed however difficult

What the school offers its staff

Rewards and benefits

• ▪ Competitive salary
• ▪ At least eight INSET days per year
• ▪ Enhanced contributory local government pension scheme
• ▪ Enhanced occupational sick pay, protecting you and your family
• ▪ Competitive and enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption benefits
• ▪ Over 250 employee exclusive benefits through our partners Perkbox, including access to wellbeing resources, discounted cinema tickets, holidays and gym memberships, car leasing and Cycle2work schemes

Flexible working opportunities

We are committed to providing excellent education so all the young people we serve are able to make a success of their lives. To deliver this we aim to attract, retain, develop and reward outstanding teaching and support staff, and we believe that flexible working has a key role to play in achieving this. Here at United Learning, we value the dedication, professionalism and hard work of our teachers, support staff and school leaders, and strongly believe that everyone should be able to do their job without sacrificing a family life or compromising their well-being. We are committed to encouraging and enabling flexible working opportunities throughout our schools wherever possible and will support employees seeking to work more flexibly.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):

childcare disqualification

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)

medical

online and social media

prohibition from teaching

right to work

satisfactory references

suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Guidance for Applicants.pdf - 366 KB (opens in new tab)

Benefits Poster.pdf - 247 KB (opens in new tab)

Confidential Disclosure.pdf - 561 KB (opens in new tab)

Child Protection Statement.pdf - 410 KB (opens in new tab)

Vacancy Pack AP.pdf - 1.29 MB (opens in new tab)