Regional Sendco

**School**
- REAch2 Academy Trust
- **Location**
- Henhurst Ridge Academy Henhurst Ridge, Burton-on-Trent, England DE13 9TQ
- **Start Date**
- Easter 2024 or September 2024
- **Salary**
**About the Role**:
Do you want the chance to actively contribute to the process of shaping England’s largest primary academy trust?

Do you want to be part of a leadership team which is passionate about making a difference to the lives of children?

Do you have the passion and motivation to inspire others, and the ability to lead change and deliver excellence?

Do you have specific skills in SEND?

If you answered ‘Yes’ to all of the above, then REAch2 might just have the perfect post for you

We are seeking to appoint two exceptional individuals as **Regional SENDCo**, to help raise the quality of education, provisions, attainment and opportunities for children across REAch2 and to support the implementation and embedding of our REAch2 SEND Strategy. With a national reach and over 60 primary schools divided into two regions, the Regional SENDCo will report directly into REAch2’s Head of SEND and work with individual schools, clusters, school leaders and the wider education team.

This is an exciting new role for someone who is passionate about developing Special Educational Needs provision and supporting the Trust. To be successful in this role you will have:

- Experience in the analysis of performance data for the purposes of target setting and evaluation.
- Experience of having led, or made a significant contribution to, the success of a school, through its leadership, pupil outcomes and ethos.
- Experience of supporting staff to optimise attainment and progress of pupils, especially those with SEND.
- Extensive experience of successfully and effectively working with children with a wide range of significant barriers to learning.

One of the main areas of focus initially will be the targeting of those schools with the highest number of outstanding EHCP assessments and supporting with collating paperwork and chasing outstanding evidence. Therefore, it would be desirable that the successful individuals have extensive experience of the graduated response and needs assessment processes.

This is a home-based position that will involve travel to schools in your assigned clusters on a regular basis. The cluster grouping is as follows:
**Regional SENDCo One**
Cluster 1 - Cannock, Staffordshire, Telford and Wolverhampton
Cluster 2 - Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire and Lichfield
Cluster 3 - Rugby, Atherstone, Birmingham and Nuneaton
Cluster 4 - Letchworth Garden City, Hitchin, Harlow and Aylesbury
Cluster 9 - Reading (Dark Blue)

**Regional SENDCo Two**
Cluster 5 - Lowestoft and Beccles
Cluster 6 - Essex, Clacton on Sea, Colchester and Ipswich
Cluster 7 - Croydon and West Sussex
Cluster 8 - Kent, Gravesend, Bexley Heath, Purfleet and Deptford
Cluster 10 - London - Waltham Forest, Chigwell, Dagenham, Leyton and Romford

**Benefit**

We offer a flexible work location for this role, paid travel, very competitive salary plus membership of the generous Teachers Pension Scheme, A wide range of professional development opportunities and the opportunity to work with some of the best educational professionals in the country,

As part of REAch2 employee benefits we also offer an eye care scheme, access to an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your immediate family and membership of ‘perks at work’ - which includes discounts on holidays, shopping, family days out and much more.
**Closing Date**
- Tuesday 2nd January 2024 at 12pm (Midday)
- **Application Contact