Assistant Headteacher / Sendco

Job Title: Assistant Headteacher / SENDCo
Salary: L1 - L4
Contract: Full-time, permanent
Start Date: 15th April 2024
Apple A Day are seeking an Assistant Headteacher (with SENDCo responsibilities) to join a friendly team at one of our partner primary schools in the Trowbridge area. This is a full-time, permanent position with much of the role not classroom based, but more focused on wider provision, planning, and management.
This positive, forward-looking school has a supportive staff and is at an exciting time of growth and progression. Currently in the process of joining a local trust, there are ample opportunities for collaboration, professional development and learning from other colleagues - especially those within the established resource bases across the trust.
This role will be based within the Senior Leadership Team, working to lead inclusion across the current school site and with a strategic overview of a new building project, specifically the development of two Resource Base classrooms, with support from colleagues within the school and local area.
The school are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, dynamic member of staff who could continue well developed inclusive practices within the setting. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work alongside other school based and local leaders to strategically plan for the embedding of that inclusive practice, when the resource base classrooms open.
The ideal candidate will be an established teacher with a secure knowledge of SEND and a passion for embedding an ethos of inclusion and equity. This would be an excellent opportunity for someone who feels they have some leadership experience, which they would like to progress further, and is looking for the next exciting step within their career.
Candidates would need to hold the National Award for SENCOs (NASENCO) or be interested in commencing the NPQ for SENCOs (the replacement for NASENCO) qualification, supported by the school, within the Autumn Term of the 2024-25 academic year.
In addition, the ideal applicant will need:
* An outstanding classroom teacher with a passion for developing children’s knowledge, inspiring their learning and celebrating their achievements.
* Dedicated to, and have high expectations, of children with a belief that all children can succeed.
* Able to demonstrate how your work will impact on the whole school as part of the senior leadership team.
* Able to demonstrate strong leadership in inclusion, with a proven track record of supporting others to improve their practice and be able to hold people to account.
* Experienced in working with colleagues, children and parents to ensure that all learners make good progress from their starting points, and are advantaged by your leadership.
* Able to lead staff development for inclusion and actively contribute to strategic planning for the school and whole school vision, values, challenges, projects.
* With support, be excited to strategically establish a new Resource Base provision.
To be effective in this role, the candidate will need to have:
* An advanced safeguarding qualification (or the willingness to attain one with the school’s support), in order to work within the school’s well-established and supportive Safeguarding Team as a Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead.
* Excellent communication skills, with high levels of interpersonal skills and approachability
* An innovative, creative and forward-thinking approach
* An ongoing commitment to your professional development and learning
* Enthusiasm for developing strong engagement with the local community and multi-agency professionals.
In return the school can offer:
* A school that Ofsted has rated as Good (November 2018) where ‘morale among the staff is high’ and there are ‘committed staff who share a passion for helping pupils be the best they can be”.
* A 2-form entry, large Primary School with the opportunity for parallel planning and curriculum delivery.
* Governors who are supportive and have a shared ambition for the future of the school.
* A strong partnership with parents and the wider school community; and,
* A clear vision with purpose and values that are supported by all our staff.
* An ambitious and vibrant place to work, with enthusiastic staff and children who are dedicated to the progress of the school.
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A passionate and supportive team
* High quality professional development opportunities from day one, including a commitment to supporting SENDCo and safeguarding qualifications, where necessary
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A clear, comprehensive induction process which will lead into planned and adapted support and mentoring to support success within this role.
* The school has well established leaders who are able to provide support and mentoring, to aid the success of this role.
Benefits of Working for Apple a Day:
* Get paid to scale from day one, for all long-term placements
* Pension scheme
* Access to a variety of ad hoc, short, long-term and permanent roles across Wiltshire and Bath and North-east Somerset
* Opportunity to see if a school setting 'fits' your teaching style before being tied into a contract
* Teacher-led recruitment agency with real world experience in schools across Wiltshire and BANES
Apple A Day is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Therefore, any successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and referencing, and all applicants will be fully vetted in line with Safer Recruitment, KCSIE and APSCo guidance.
Please note due to volume of applicants, only successful applicants will be contacted. An Apple A Day Supply is an equal opportunities employer. We seek to ensure equality of opportunity in employment and the fair treatment of all employees. We seek to ensure that no employee or prospective employee will receive less favourable treatment on grounds that cannot be justified. An Apple A Day Supply work in accordance with APSCo Education Sector group code of conduct