SENDCo

Under the direction of the Principal and Vice Principal, the SENDCo is responsible for the strategic leadership of SEND across all areas of school.

The SENCo has a duty to promote high quality inclusive education, ensuring students fulfil their potential through effective teaching and learning and high expectations.

• Support the Academy to ensure it meets the statutory requirements of SEND. Including the Academy’s graduated Response
• Provide effective direction and leadership to SEND support staff in order to effectively provide support and challenge to pupils with SEND in mainstream classrooms and within the specialist classroom areas.
• Model best practice, lead staff training and support staff to deliver high quality inclusive education.
• Liaise with outside professionals to ensure adequate provision for pupils.
• Arrange effective SEND INSET days/Staff Meeting in collaboration with the leadership team and executive team, supporting colleagues / visitors who do so.
• Prepare and organise SEND timetables and provision plans
• Take a leading role in reviewing / writing SEND policy documentation that reflect the schools practice.
• Assist in the display and dissemination of information to staff / parents and the community for whole school and SEND specific matters.
• Co-ordinate the writing and review of student support plans
• Write HLN bids and take a full role in the EHCP process when required.
• Oversee admissions and transitions for pupils with SEND.
• To contribute to the development, monitoring and evaluation of the Academy Development Plan.
• To monitor teaching standards with the SLT.
• To monitor and evaluate standards of learning in the school with SLT.
• Attend Leadership meetings as required.
• Contribute to the creation of a climate that enables all staff to develop and maintain positive attitudes towards their teaching.
• Work collaboratively with the leadership team on identified academy priorities.
• To have responsibility and devolved leadership under the direction of the Principal for the strategic leadership and management of SEND.
• To ensure that the school complies with all statutory requirements in terms of the curriculum, assessment and recording and reporting of pupils’ attainment and progress and the code of practice.
• To implement appropriate strategies for improving and sustaining high standards of teaching, learning and achievement for all pupils.
• To ensure that teachers – through short, medium and long term plans – understand how to adapt planning to meet the needs of all learners.
• To use data effectively to establish clear and challenging targets for pupil achievement and improvement, including SEND.
• To train as a Deputy DSL
• To offer support and guidance to staff in the effective teaching of pupils suggesting appropriate strategies and CPD opportunities to ensure high standards.
• To liaise with relevant members of staff including outside agencies,
• Lead CPD meetings and INSET for the school.
• As a member of the Leadership Team - analyse and interpret relevant national, local and school data, research and inspection evidence to inform policies, practices, expectations, targets and teaching methods.
• To establish and implement clear policies and practices for assessing, recording and reporting pupils’ attainment and progress.
• To write an annual action plan and to monitor and evaluate it against the success criteria and to use this to identify future priorities for development as part of the academy plan.
• To maintain an evidence file for inclusion in the SEF, as appropriate
• To establish staff and resource needs and take responsibility for managing a budget of likely priority expenditure.
• To allocate, deploy and maintain resources to ensure value for money.
• To maintain effective communication with governors ensuring they are well informed about subject plans, policies and priorities.
• To develop appropriate networks with other outside agencies, including cluster groups, network learning communities, business, industry, community groups and ITT providers.
• To provide guidance and support to staff in their written communications regarding SEND, including the annual report to parents.
• To ensure the effective teaching of pupils by overseeing planning, preparation and assessment, and by any other appropriate evaluative activity.
• To develop a clear SEND referral and identification process
• To aid the identification and collection of evidence for appropriate access arrangements.
• To liaise with student support and Year leaders to develop strategies and provision for students with SEMH needs.

These tasks and accountabilities are intended to be a guide to the range and level of work excepted of the post-holder. This is not an exhaustive list of all tasks that may fall to the post holder and employees will be required to undertake any duties which may reasonably be regarded as within the nature of the duties and responsibilities/grade of the post as defined.

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Source: UK Teaching Vacancies Service (teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.