Senco - Dorset Studio School

3 weeks ago

Dorchester, United Kingdom Dorset Council Full time

**About The Role**:
This is a rare and exciting opportunity within a forward-thinking school for a proactive and energetic individual to lead our commitment to students with SEND.

We are seeking a highly skilled individual who shares our ambition for all students to achieve optimally.

As part of our dedicated and skilful student support team, you will lead two other qualified SENDCOs, as well as a team of specialist support staff and teaching assistants, ensuring that intervention makes a sustained difference to the learning and life opportunities of the young people in our care. You will have a genuine involvement with the development of our quality assurance programme and will be expected to lead on EHCP submissions and provision. We expect our SENDCO to be a strong teacher and this role will carry with it a teaching allocation equating to approximately 30% of the timetable.

You will be a strong advocate for students with SEND, able to ensure that they receive ‘Quality First Teaching’ and able to support staff to be able to routinely deliver this. As such, you will provide clear leadership for SEND including the assessment of impact and reporting back to key stakeholders including OFSTED. You will lead a provision that will narrow gaps quickly, that will be involve forensically identified intervention and that will empower staff to support all students to the very best of their ability. In short, you will oversee a provision that will be second to none.

Dorset Studio School is oversubscribed and is proud of its strong reputation. As an evolving and growing school, the range of appointments we make, and the skill set we look for is ever expanding. We are developing our provision in many of our staff teams. If you feel that you have more to offer, and that this post could be the next step in your career development, please do let us know.

If you want to work in a good school with a creative and ambitious outlook, we would love to hear from you.

**Further Information**:
**About Us**:
**What our parents say about our school(statements from this years’ survey)**

**‘Brilliant school, great to see my child thriving. Teachers take the time to understand the child individually and build up relationships. Thank you’**

**‘Thank you for making the last 7 months amazing for my child. We definitely made the right decision to wait for this school.’**

**‘We are really pleased how Dorset Studio School has helped our son through a really hard time, thank you’**

**‘Dorset Studio school has been amazing for my daughter. I have never known a school like it and I am so grateful that she was accepted by them.’**

**‘My granddaughter no longer complains about going to school, which happened daily at previous school.’**

**‘DSS is an amazing school. My child is very happy. You all do an amazing job. Thank you.’**

**‘Absolutely amazing school Thank you so much to each and every staff member for all their hard work.’**

**‘My children enjoy the different outlook DSS has on education’**

**What our staff say about our school (statements from this year’s survey)**

**‘I feel valued’**

**‘Colleague relationships are amazing’**

**‘There is openness and transparency between staff’**

**‘Staff take teaching and learning very seriously’**

**‘The SLT are the most supportive I’ve known’**

**‘I am entrusted to do my job to the best of my ability’**

**‘I have been given the confidence to make my own decisions both within my department and now, at whole school level. I feel supported, encouraged and valued. I have also been supported towards the completion of my NPQSLT. This was not my idea and something the school encouraged me to do.’**

**‘The best thing about working here is seeing the children blossom and grow stronger’**

**And this is what our year students said this year***

**‘Choosing DSS was one of the best decisions I ever made. The teachers are all friendly and supportive and try to get the best out of all of us for the future’**

**‘It is much better than my last school. I much prefer the daily routines here. It feels like staff put more effort into building relationships with students’**

**‘The work is suited to my ability. I am challenged and supported’**

**‘The best school I have ever been to - excellent support in all aspects, both academic and pastoral support’**

**‘Dorset Studio School has given me opportunities I didn’t think about before and would not have been able to access in my previous school’**

**‘Work experience throughout year 10 and 11 has helped me grow as a person. It has helped me overcome my fear of social interaction’**

**‘Dorset Studio School teachers are passionate about what they do and they work hard to guarantee your success’**

**‘DSS is a great school. I no longer wake up and complain about going to school. The teachers here are supportive and wonderful. They help me in my l

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