Senco Assistant

**_How would you like to be paid for five days but only work four*?_**

**Our colleagues’ wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do at OFG, so we’re always looking for new ways to improve everyone’s work/life balance. We’re taking part in a trial of the 4-Day Working Week, meaning that you could be working one day less a week (or equivalent).**

**If the trial is a success, we’ll be rolling the 4DWW out across the Group - so there’s never been a more exciting time to join #teamOFG**

**Job Title: SENCo Assistant**

**Salary: £25,000 per annum**

**Location: New Barn School, Newbury, Berkshire, RG20 8HZ**

**Contract: Permanent; Term Time only**

**Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday**

**UK Applicants only. This role does not offer sponsorship.**

As part of our continued growth in service, we are looking for a SENCo Assistant to join our amazing team at New Barn School in Newbury, Berkshire.

**About the role**

To support the SENCo’s and Senior Leadership Team (SLT) in various aspects of the schools administrative obligations and requirements in particular the communication with local authorities and administration of annual reviews of EHCP’s, travel arrangements and administration of intervention and tracking of vulnerable young people.

**Main Duties**

A range of support functions including, but not limited to:

- To coordinate with Teachers, Local Authorities, EHCP’s, Social Workers and SLT the production of transfer education reviews and EHCP’s.
- Coordinate, facilitate, take part in, minute and complete all Annual Education Reviews.
- To ensure all relevant and correct paperwork is completed and distributed to all agencies, Local Authorities and families.
- To carry out admin to support in pupil admissions - Includes, setting up ITAC meetings, keeping up to date and sending out induction packs, updating class list, setting up new pupil files
- To maintain pupil files and archiving
- To handle, organise and facilitate transport
- Handling telephone enquiries from professional agencies, parents and others.
- Preparation of reports, letters and assorted internal and external documents.
- Producing school documents using word processing, excel or other software.
- Photocopying, filing, collating information etc.

**About us**

New Barn School offers a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum to boys and girls, aged 6-19 years who have Social, Emotional and Mental Health complexities.

New Barn School takes full advantage of its beautiful settings and fosters a love for using the outdoor curriculum including forest school, farm experiences and horse riding. The School is within a commutable distance of Swindon, Oxford, Andover, Basingstoke and Reading and other surrounding towns and villages.

Our services offer a stable, secure and supportive environment, in which the pupils and young people we care for can develop the skills and confidence necessary to help them fulfil their potential.

Acorn Care and Education is the UK’s leading independent provider of specialist education and residential care for vulnerable pupils and young people. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.

**Why join Acorn Education?**

**Benefits**

**Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including**:

- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
- “Your Wellbeing Matters” - access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

**And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including**:

- A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
- 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Electric Car Purchase Scheme
- Critical illness cover
- Family Growth Support - _inclusive benefits package covering enhanced maternity and paternity leave, along with paid fertility treatment support._

**And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the pupils in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.**
- **_You’ll work 80% of your contractual hours for 100% of your pay, giving you more time to do the things that make you happy._**

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