Inclusion Leader (SENCO)

Job Description

Permanent & Part Time (expected to be 0.6FTE)

The team, children, governors and community are seeking a new Inclusion Leader to lead an ambitious and professional team in the pursuit of excellent learning in our happy, vibrant and inspiring school.

The successful candidate will:

Be of the highest integrity; an elite colleague who leads by example.
Provide excellent support as SENCO, being qualified with QTS and NASENCO.
Be accountable for outcomes for the vulnerable students and low achievers.
Be an active and effective member of the Senior Leadership Team.
Liaise with colleagues, families and external agencies.
Be in a team of Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads.

The school will provide:

A motivated team, dedicated to improving the life chances of all students.
A consortium network in which to work collaboratively.
Dedicated Family Support Worker, Speech and Language, Therapeutic and Nurture Mentor services.
A dedicated office space in which to work, free of timetabled class teaching commitments.
A mission to strive to be the best we can be!

Further details are available to download from the school website. Please call us at the school or contact aleung@st-georgesnewtown-jun.essex.sch.uk for more information.

Visits to the school are essential.

Closing date for applications: Monday 29th April 2019 at noon.

Interviews: Week of May 6th 2019

St. George's School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all persons at the school to actively share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to a DBS clearance, employment checks and satisfactory references.

Information about the School

We are passionate about our school. Why? … you ask.

It’s simple really. St. George’s School is at the heart our community. It is a well-established school with a sense of pride, community spirit and values. It is also a school which is proud to be pushing forward; developing increasingly effective teaching and learning strategies that support all of our children … a truly inclusive place to be.

We are focused on improving many aspects of school life. We promote a love of reading for all children, grow skilled writers and mathematicians and support children effectively in both their learning and well-being. We aim to provide an engaging curriculum for all our young learners through interest, breadth and depth, and offer excellent facilities.

Our school is one that has been on an exciting journey of development. Formed from previous separate infant and junior schools in 2021, our newly formed primary school serves the community of New Town and beyond, and is committed to be inclusive of all.

Many of our classrooms are newly refurbished and are lovely places to teach and learn. With capacity for 680 children, including our own nursery, we are one of the largest primary settings in the area, and provide a true team ethos in which to grow professionally.

However, we still have much to do and believe that, by working in partnership to achieve a common purpose, we can continue to provide a school that is at the cutting edge of educational practice. We are graded 'Good' by Ofsted (2023) and are an Inclusion Quality Mark Centre of Excellence. In the last available value added benchmarks we were one of the highest rated schools in the locality.

We know that success is drawn from professional cooperation and partnership. We are therefore trustees of the Child First Trust, participants in Partners in Excellence (PiXL) and active members of a local schools’ partnership, newly launched in April this year. These networks enable teachers and leaders to learn from each other, and provide mutual support across schools. We encourage our teachers to develop themselves further through national qualifications, and give them a real and meaningful voice in the advancement of our practice and curriculum offer. Professionally, it is a great place to be.

So, as you can see, we really are passionate about our school and recognise that through enabling inspirational teaching, learning and leadership, we will set the school well on the way to improving further still.

The Headteacher and Governing Body

All appointments are subject to safer recruitment requirements to ensure the safeguarding of children and young people. All positions will involve appropriate checks and clearances.