Special Educational Needs Coordinator Senco

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**Job Title:

- SENCo**

**Location:

- Belmont Secondary School, Rawtenstall, Lancashire**

**Salary:

Up to £35,000 per annum dependent on experience**

**Hours:

37.5 hours per week**

**Contract:

- Permanent, Term Time only**

**Are you a SENCo committed to improving the lives of children and young people?**

We are looking for an experienced, qualified SENCo Coordinator to join our fantastic team at Belmont Secondary School in Rawtenstall. As a SENCo, you will deliver fun based learning to pupils according to their educational needs, in a way that maximiseschildren’s achievement and ability to develop.

This is a great opportunity for a SENCo who wants to develop creative learning opportunities for children with varied and complex needs. Your work will be challenging and rewarding in equal measure, working with individual and small groups of pupils in aschool where we maintain a strong safeguarding culture, where pupils are listened to, respected and involved in as many decisions as possible.

When it comes to looking after our children, we never settle for second best.The SENCO will have overall responsibility for the strategic development of the school’s Special Educational Needs (SEN) policy; including oversight of the day-to-day operationof that policy with the aim of raising all students’ attainment and achievement.

Already experienced in an SEN environment, you will be forward thinking, engaging, resilient, and have an innovative style of teaching, motivated by supporting families and helping every child to reach their potential.

**Essential**
- QTS - graduate or teachers’ certificate
- Qualified SENCo status or a willingness to enrol on this course immediately
- Evidence of continuing and recent further professional development and qualifications relevant to the post
- Being able to demonstrate good classroom and behaviour management
- To show evidence of being an experienced and effective class teacher through excellent teaching practice

**Desirable**
- National Award for Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators
- Experience of being a SENCo
- Driving Licence

**About the School**

Belmont is an independent specialist day school for boys 11 to 16, catering for children with a wide range of needs. Our dedicated team work together to ensure successful outcomes for pupils who often arrive at the school with a troubled view of educationand life.

We pride ourselves in steering children in the right direction, nurturing aspiration to progress them both academically and socially to encourage them to take pride in their achievements. Socially, we build con?dence in our students so they are able to havea greater understanding of the wider community in which they live.

**About the Group**

We are part of Acorn Care and Education and can promise you plenty of challenges, and a rich variety of opportunities to develop your career.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate Art Lead to join this thriving specialist SEMH School. Responsible to the Deputy Head Teacher they will be responsible for the running of the Art department and to ensure that the department and the schoolis successful in achieving its aims. You will be an enthusiastic, flexible and determined individual who shares our values and is looking to develop their career in this specialist area.

**Why join Acorn Education & Care?**

**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

And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the children and vulnerable young adults 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.