Assistant Sendco

**September 2024**

**Permanent, Full Time (37 hours per week)**

**Term time plus 1 week (40 weeks per year)**

**Grade 7 SCP 18-23 FTE £29,269 - £32,076 pay award pending**

**Actual Annual Salary £26,144 - £29,173 pay award pending**

We are a Multi Academy Trust comprising of six secondary schools and one primary school with over 750 employees and over 5,500 students, based in Dudley, West Midlands.

The Crestwood School wish to appoint a full time Assistant SENDCo to join our successful school. This position is suitable for a qualified teacher although it is not essential.

We are very much a team at Crestwood; our colleagues work extremely hard to help each student to achieve their potential and they also support each other.

We were very recently inspected by Ofsted in March 2023 and it was noted that SEND is a 'particular strength of the school'.

There is a link SEND governor who is an experienced in this field. We are an oversubscribed school and have, on average, 210 pupils in each year group.

Please see attached job description for more details.

Closing date**:19th May 2024, 12 noon**

We are deeply committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Children and expect all Staff and Volunteers to share this commitment. All necessary Safeguarding checks will be undertaken which must have satisfactory outcomes, otherwise the conditional job offer may be withdrawn. Details of the checks that will be undertake can be found at: Keeping Children Safe in Education, 2023 - KCSIE 2023

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:
Positions at the school are exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to a post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). DBS Filtering guidance can be found on the GOV.UK website.

As a Trust we are committed to ensuring that throughout our recruitment and selection process, no applicant will be disadvantaged or discriminated against because of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.