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SENCo

Job details
Posting date: 25 June 2024
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 03 July 2024
Location: Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 2HE
Company: Teaching Vacancies
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: b8a80ff6-19ca-4acb-8ea4-9451cb2085dd

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Summary

What skills and experience we're looking for



The successful candidate
will:



• Lead, direct and deploy the SEND team, to
create efficient and effective learning support
• Have a full understanding of the SEND code of
practice 2015
• Understand the ‘Assess, Plan, Do, Review’
cycle and how to lead this across a team, to create the greatest impact for the
students
• Have knowledge of the four key areas of need
and experience of creating and delivering appropriate interventions and support
• Lead on the provision for those with formal
SEMH needs and create appropriate interventions and support
• Take a joint lead on referrals, EHCPs and HNF
and as such work with external agencies
• Communicate with a range of stakeholders:
teachers, students, parents etc.
• Secure comprehensive and accessible record
keeping across the department

What the school offers its staff



WHY CHOOSE US?



Do you want to be part of a community which offers a positive, exciting and
rewarding place to work? Hillview School
for Girls is a popular, high achieving, non-selective school based in
Tonbridge, Kent. Working for us will
give you the opportunity to work alongside enthusiastic subject specialists and
engage with creative pedagogical development.



Our calm and focused classroom environments, where students are keen to
learn, achieve and appreciate their teachers’ dedication and support, are the
main reasons why teachers love to work at Hillview.



We are seeking to appoint a SENCo to
work as part of a supportive team alongside our existing Director of SEND and
Assistant SENCO, to secure outstanding SEND provision.

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.

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