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Role:Deputy Head of Learning Support
Contract: Permanent - required to start September 2025
Salary:Scale 7, points 19 to 24 (actual salary £27,289 - £30,141) starting point 19 £27,289 or £27,646 depending on years' service and experience
Hours:37 hours a week, 40 weeks per year.
Closing Date:12th May 2025at 12pm Midday
Are you ready for a new and exciting challenge and to be part of an amazing team? We have a fantastic opportunity to appoint an enthusiastic, professional and confident Deputy Head of Learning Support. You will be part of our friendly and experienced Learning Support team.
What you'll need to succeed:
Excellent communication
Strong administrative skills
A positive 'can-do' attitude and a great sense of humour!
Good organisational skills
An excellent understanding of supporting children with special educational needs.
Some of the Duties involved:
To discuss reasons for referral with relevant staff and students and set individual targets for improving learning
To conduct interviews with ECHP students and SEND support students and their parents as annual reviews of progress.
To liaise with outside agencies and attend any meetings, both in school and outside school, when required, to support the achievement and progress of students. Such meetings might take place outside school hours.
To consult with teachers to ensure an appropriate curriculum is followed by SEN students
We can offer you:
The opportunity to be part of a highly supportive and ambitious school
A commitment to a personalised progamme of CPD
Opportunity to collaborate across Trust schools
Access to a 24/7 confidential Employee Assistance Programme
Flexible and family friendly policies and we are open to discussing flexible working arrangements at the point of hire.
Benefits platform which offers valuable discounts
Access to the LGPS Pension Scheme
Cycle to Work Scheme
Tech Scheme
24/7 GP
Contact us:
For more information about the school, please visitwww.boswells-school.comor contact Maria Williams onmho@boswells-school.comor phone 01245264451.
Whilst there is a published closing date for this vacancy, we reserve the right to close the advert early if we receive sufficient applications. Early applications are therefore strongly encouraged.
The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is committed within its schools to:
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety, and the spiritual and cultural development of children and young people;
Promoting equality of opportunity and community cohesion where the diversity of different backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and positively valued;
The fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers to share in this commitment.
As an equal opportunities employer, The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join The Chelmsford Learning Partnership.
In compliance with safer recruitment procedures and guidelines, all applications must be made on an application form, CVs will not be accepted. This appointment will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service and satisfactory references. In line with recommended practice the school will conduct searches for information on shortlisted candidates which is publicly available on-line. The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is an equal opportunities employer.
Information about the School
The Boswells School is a large 11-18 secondary school that serves the area of north Chelmsford. The school is an extremely popular, over-subscribed convertor academy that enjoys an excellent reputation in the local and wider community. We were graded ‘Good’ in every area by OFSTED in February 2017 and are working towards our goal of becoming a truly great school.