Assistant Sendco

**Salary**:
Competitive plus benefits, dependent on qualifications, skills and experience

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
January 2025

25 November 2024

**Job overview**:
Wimbledon High School are excited to offer an opportunity for a well-qualified and enthusiastic Assistant SENDCo to join one of the most forward-looking independent schools in London.

Our innovative and highly successful Neurodiversity and Hidden Differences (ND/HD) Department is in an exciting period as it expands to meet the challenges of providing an inclusive and dynamic experience for all pupils.

As Assistant SENDCo you will be responsible for helping the Head of Neurodiversity/SENCO in overseeing the day-to-day operation of the department, ensuring that barriers to learning are identified and managed effectively, where you will assess needs, monitor teaching methods and student achievement, record progress and track interventions. You will liaise with colleagues to identify students with hidden differences and support the assessment procedures, collecting and interpreting specialist assessment data for neurodivergent students to inform practice.

**About the School**:
Since 1880, Wimbledon High School GDST has been educating girls to go out into the world and make a difference. Our acclaimed pastoral programme GROW, enriching co-curricular opportunities, character-forging partnerships and our 'playful scholarship' approach to academic life make for a compelling environment where every individual can flourish and be herself. Located in the heart of Wimbledon, we are less than 20 minutes from central London.

**Benefits**

As part of the Girls' Day School Trust, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:

- Competitive salaries and pay progression
- Access to extensive professional development opportunities
- GDST Flexible Pension Plan (Details from:- Training grants for qualifications
- Free life assurance benefit
- A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
- Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
- A Cycle to Work scheme
- Competitive terms and conditions of employment

**Interviews will take place on Monday 2 December 2024.**
- The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included._

**About **Wimbledon High School**:
**Wimbledon High School**
- Mansel Road- London- SW19 4AB- United Kingdom+44 20 8971 0900

An academically successful school, with meaningful partnerships placing us at the heart of our community, Wimbledon High School is a hub of intellectual activity, fun and laughter.

We are proudly a flagship school of the Girls' Day School Trust, experts in educating girls, from 4 to 18. We like to challenge and inspire our students through an innovative focus on 'play' in our Junior School and 'playful scholarship' in Seniors, which sees us embrace problem-solving, critical and disruptive thinking and creativity in and out of the classroom. It may seem a contradiction but at Wimbledon High we are as serious about play as we are about academic rigour - and indeed, believe that the one cannot exist without the other. A highly selective school, with outstanding results, our students do nine GCSEs and 3 A levels, giving them time and space to explore around, over and above the curriculum. We go off-timetable one afternoon a week for our partnerships work, which sees over 200 visiting pupils get involved in activities and which was noted as a significant strength of the school in our recent ISI inspection.

A vast array of co-curricular clubs and activities allow students to find their thing: passions and interests that they will take with them through life, as on their journey of discovery about themselves, they learn what is important to them. Excellent pastoral care, under our GROW programme, is embedded in everything we do; we teach girls to believe in their own agency and use their voices for good.

**Our school aims**:
**_ Stepping in: _**_we aim for every girl to feel known, supported, confident and able to shine at Wimbledon High._

**_ Striding out:_**_ we aim for every girl to leave us prepared to shape the society in which she lives and works._

We will do this, across the school by:

- Encouraging resilience, independence and kindness
- Nurturing curiosity, scholarship and a sense of wonder
- Promoting excellent teaching and learning
- Running a broad, inspiring co-curricular programme