Job Description

St Martin's School

Hanging Hill Lane

Hutton, Brentwood

Essex CM13 2HG

Tel: 01277 238300

NOR: 1834 including 361 sixth form students

Executive Headteacher: Jamie Foster

Role - SEN Administrator

Salary Range - LGS points range 9-12

Start Date - ASAP

37 hours per week, Term time, plus 5 non-pupil days, plus 5 additional days in the summer (to be agreed with SENDCo) Monday to Thursday 8.00am to 4.00pm, Friday 8.00am to 3.30pm

We are looking to appoint an experienced and dedicated Administrator to join our SEND team.

Duties include:

· To accurately and robustly provide full administrative clerical support to the SENDCo, including writing, monitoring and maintaining SEND records.

· Timetabling SEND support for students

· Maintaining relationships with individual pupils and groups, including acting as a key worker for specific SEND students

· Good IT skills and confidence in dealing with a wide range of people are essential for this post

St Martin's is an over-subscribed, friendly, co-educational, fully comprehensive school located in Hutton, Brentwood. The school is on one site with extensive grounds which also includes a large sixth form block. Our ethos is a non-bureaucratic approach to all aspects of school life, while maintaining a relentless focus on learning and teaching, to ensure outstanding achievement for our students.

It is our policy to only recruit staff to permanent positions via a direct application, not through an agency placement. Application can be made via TES.com or http://www.essexschoolsjobs.co.uk

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early upon appointment of a successful applicant.

St Martin's School is an academy that forms part of the Discovery Educational Trust.

The Local Schools Committee will ensure that all staff, job applicants, and students seeking admission to the school do not suffer direct or indirect discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, religion or belief, and are not disadvantaged by any other condition or requirement which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

Closing date: Friday 1st December 2023 at midday.

St Martin's School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. This post will be subject to an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Information about the School

St Martin's is a large co-educational comprehensive school located in Hutton, Brentwood. The school benefits from a pleasant semi-rural environment with agricultural land to the rear. The school, which also includes a large sixth form block, is situated on an open, attractive 30 acre site. Parking is available on-site and there are good transport links by both rail and bus. Hutton is five miles from the M25 and 19 miles from London, which is easily reached by road or train (25 minutes to Liverpool Street Station).

This is a large, but friendly school in which all staff are helped to develop their talents. This is supported by an extensive and wide ranging in-house continual professional development programme (CPD). We have high quality mentoring and induction programmes for staff with excellent opportunities for training and professional development.

2022 - 79% of students achieved grades 9-4 in both GCSE English and Maths and ALPS 3 progress in the sixth form 2023 - 84% of students achieved 9 - 4 in English and 80% achieved 9 – 4 in Maths Over Subscribed - 1184 applications for 292 year 7 places in 2023 Ofsted 2024 - Good with outstanding leadership