SENCO
| Posting date: | 11 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 September 2025 |
| Location: | Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN40 1SE |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6840c344-b581-4038-bfcd-970389fee7ce |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
• Qualified teacher status (requirement under the SEND Code of Practice)
• National Award for SEN Co-ordination, or a willingness to complete it within three years of appointment (requirement under the SEND Code of Practice)
• Degree
• Teaching experience – preferably in a SEND context
• Experience of working at a whole-school level
• Involvement in self-evaluation and development planning
• Experience of conducting training/leading INSET
• Experience of EHCP reviews
• Experience of responding to LA consultations
• Experience of working with parents/carers to support pupil achievement
• Experience of multi-agency working
• Sound knowledge of the SEND Code of Practice
• Understanding of what makes ‘quality first’ teaching, and of effective intervention strategies
• Ability to plan and evaluate interventions
• Data analysis skills and the ability to use data to inform provision planning
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to build effective working relationships
• Ability to influence and negotiate
• Good record-keeping skills
What the school offers its staff
• We are a happy, thriving school community where respect for one another is key.
• Ours is a caring school. Visitors always comment on the calm, friendly and warm atmosphere of our school
• Facilities are excellent as well as vibrant.
• Behaviour for learning is outstanding as are many of our lessons. Hence, you will have the opportunity to teach, inspire and take risks with our fully engaged and committed learners.
• In spite of being a coastal school, we achieve strong outcomes for all groups of pupils.
• The staff are fantastic as are the pupils, parents and Governors.
• Our Professional Development Programme is excellent.
• Your induction to the school will be first class, ensuring that you feel valued and a key contributor very early on.
• Enrichment is a huge strength of the school.
• You will have the opportunity to support trips to Berlin, Austria, Rome, Barcelona, Aachen, Iceland, Normandy as well as a range of day trips.
• You will be supported to develop your career here at St Richard’s.
• We have a strong programme of staff wellbeing/social events such as yoga sessions, sports activities, country walks, sketchbook circle, Christmas cake baking and decorating, Christmas decorations making and staff choir.
• We offer sports activities, weekend walks for the family and other staff events. We have so many activities as people genuinely care about each other and organise activities for the benefit of their colleagues.
• Bexhill is a lovely place in which to live and work with Hastings, Eastbourne and Brighton on the doorstep.
• We are ‘human’. We do not expect perfection. We fully acknowledge that maintaining a first class school is about all pulling together, learning from each other and supporting one another with challenges. Everyone has their strengths and areas for development. We work as a team to ensure strong outcomes for all our pupils.
• We do not expect you to be Catholic. We have staff of different denominations and staff of no religion. As long as you feel happy and, above all, committed to support our Catholic ethos, we would warmly welcome your application.
Commitment to safeguarding
St Richard's is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
• Qualified teacher status (requirement under the SEND Code of Practice)
• National Award for SEN Co-ordination, or a willingness to complete it within three years of appointment (requirement under the SEND Code of Practice)
• Degree
• Teaching experience – preferably in a SEND context
• Experience of working at a whole-school level
• Involvement in self-evaluation and development planning
• Experience of conducting training/leading INSET
• Experience of EHCP reviews
• Experience of responding to LA consultations
• Experience of working with parents/carers to support pupil achievement
• Experience of multi-agency working
• Sound knowledge of the SEND Code of Practice
• Understanding of what makes ‘quality first’ teaching, and of effective intervention strategies
• Ability to plan and evaluate interventions
• Data analysis skills and the ability to use data to inform provision planning
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to build effective working relationships
• Ability to influence and negotiate
• Good record-keeping skills
What the school offers its staff
• We are a happy, thriving school community where respect for one another is key.
• Ours is a caring school. Visitors always comment on the calm, friendly and warm atmosphere of our school
• Facilities are excellent as well as vibrant.
• Behaviour for learning is outstanding as are many of our lessons. Hence, you will have the opportunity to teach, inspire and take risks with our fully engaged and committed learners.
• In spite of being a coastal school, we achieve strong outcomes for all groups of pupils.
• The staff are fantastic as are the pupils, parents and Governors.
• Our Professional Development Programme is excellent.
• Your induction to the school will be first class, ensuring that you feel valued and a key contributor very early on.
• Enrichment is a huge strength of the school.
• You will have the opportunity to support trips to Berlin, Austria, Rome, Barcelona, Aachen, Iceland, Normandy as well as a range of day trips.
• You will be supported to develop your career here at St Richard’s.
• We have a strong programme of staff wellbeing/social events such as yoga sessions, sports activities, country walks, sketchbook circle, Christmas cake baking and decorating, Christmas decorations making and staff choir.
• We offer sports activities, weekend walks for the family and other staff events. We have so many activities as people genuinely care about each other and organise activities for the benefit of their colleagues.
• Bexhill is a lovely place in which to live and work with Hastings, Eastbourne and Brighton on the doorstep.
• We are ‘human’. We do not expect perfection. We fully acknowledge that maintaining a first class school is about all pulling together, learning from each other and supporting one another with challenges. Everyone has their strengths and areas for development. We work as a team to ensure strong outcomes for all our pupils.
• We do not expect you to be Catholic. We have staff of different denominations and staff of no religion. As long as you feel happy and, above all, committed to support our Catholic ethos, we would warmly welcome your application.
Commitment to safeguarding
St Richard's is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.