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Position Type:SENCO
Pay Range:MPS / UPS
Position Start Date:September 2024/January 2025
Contract Type:Part-time
Contract Term:Permanent
SENCO/Inclusion Lead
MPS/UPS plus SEN Allowance
2 or 3 days per week (days to be discussed at interview) If 3 days, the extra day would be a teaching responsibility.
The best way to get a feel for our fantastic school is by viewing our website and coming to see us - visits to the school are warmly welcomed and encouraged if time allows. Please contact the school office either on 01245 354875 or by email.
St Pius X Catholic Primary School is part of The Rosary Multi-Academy Trust and due to the promotion of our long serving SENCO, is seeking to appoint an inspirational SENCO to join our school. We currently are below the national average for SEN pupils so this could be an ideal role for someone seeking a new career opportunity.
The successful candidate will play a major role in further developing our excellent SEND provision and approach to inclusion across the school. You will work with our supportive senior leadership team and closely with our staff, children and families to ensure legal and statutory requirements are met for pupils with SEND.
This is a key appointment for our school and you will be joining a friendly and committed team of staff, all focused on delivering the best possible outcomes for every pupil.
You will:
· have a proven track record as an exemplary primary school teacher
· preferably hold the National Award for SEN Co-ordination (and, if not, be prepared to undertake the NPQ SEN qualification)
· be able to demonstrate a thorough knowledge and understanding of the current SEN Code of Practice
· have a clear understanding of provision mapping, early identification of children with SEN, assessment tools and successful interventions to drive progress.
· possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills and be well organised and flexible
· have the skills effectively to liaise with staff, parents and external agencies to co-ordinate and ensure continuity of provision.
· be able to motivate and support staff and pupils
· line manage a team of the LSAs that support pupils with needs, carrying out Performance Management Reviews.
· have high expectations of children's achievement and behaviour
· be committed to working in close partnership with parents/carers, other Trust Schools, governors and the wider community.
We can offer you:
· A friendly and supportive team working together with like-minded schools ensuring the best outcomes for everyone.
· Excellent opportunities for professional development within the school and across our Trust.
· Well behaved and hardworking pupils who have excellent attitudes to learning.
· An inclusive school which promotes achievement for all.
St Pius X Catholic Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This appointment is subject to safer recruitment procedures including an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and medical clearance.
Due to the number of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted once the advertisement has closed.
Closing date: Midday 1st July 2024
Interview Date: Thursday 9th July 2024
Information about the School
Welcome to St Pius X Catholic Primary School
Our school is a small, caring and happy school where staff know all of the children and where every child really matters. Our committed staff work hard to provide a rich and challenging curriculum and strive to encourage a love of learning in our pupils to create resilient, life long learners when they leave us. Our curriculum is progressive so that knowledge and skills are built upon over time and designed in a way, using exciting topics (with clear defined subjects) to engage, inspire and motivate our learners so that they hold onto and build upon their learning each year.
Everything we do is underpinned by our Catholic faith with Christ at the centre:
‘Together in God’s loving family, we believe, we learn, we grow’. We work in partnership with parents and the Church to help the children to grow in a deeper understanding of their faith as they develop. We have close links with our parish church, Blessed Sacrament, Chelmsford.
Our school community has agreed core values, based on the Beatitudes that we want our children to work towards in their strive for excellence, to be the very best they can, no matter what their starting point. Our values of fairness, kindness, forgiveness, peacefulness, integrity and service are weaved throughout our curriculum and we reward our children when they demonstrate these values to help them grow to be the very best they can be! We value the joy of working and learning in a community that is strengthened by common values and expectations and that strives to serve God through service towards others. Our children are also taught to respect and value other cultures and faiths.
We believe in high aspirations, high motivation and high achievement for all. We encourage children to have high expectations of themselves and aspire to be the best that they can be.
Our children, staff and parents, and parish are a happy and caring community who work together to enable our children to grow into successful, happy and caring individuals who are ready to go out in the world and make a difference.
We are all proud of our school where pupils enjoy their learning in a caring environment where they feel safe, secure and valued.
Mrs S.Derbyshire
Head Teacher (B.Ed.Hons)