Virtual School SEND Lead

4 weeks ago

AshtonunderLyne, United Kingdom Tameside Council Full time


Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: Grade H. Scale 29 - £37,336 to Scale 31 - £39,186

Hours Per Week: 36

Base Location: Hyde Town Hall, Market Street, Hyde, SK14 1AL

Assessment Date: 18th and 19th November 2024

The Role

Tameside Virtual School is looking for a Virtual School SEND Lead to join their team. Main duties and responsibilities will include:

  • To be the main contact and lead within the Virtual School for all children with Special Educational Needs.
  • To liaise with schools, SEND Team and other relevant colleagues to ensure appropriate support for all children with special educational needs and a social worker.
  • To facilitate and support educational providers in the reviewing of Education, Health, Care Plans on an annual and interim basis, ensuring compliancy with all legislation if fulfilled in relation to amending, re-assessing and/or ceasing a Plan
  • To liaise with SEND team and other colleagues to ensure a consistent approach across Children’s Services.

About You

You will have previous experience of leading/supporting pupils with Special Educational Needs in a school, early years, college. We are looking for candidates with alternative provision or local authority setting, ability to build good working relationships across a range of teams, as well as good knowledge of SEND Code of Practice and its implications.

About Us

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager Kath Hankinson on kathleen.hankinson@tameside.gov.uk


We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.

This position is subject to Enhanced with Barred List Disclosure Procedures.

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

Reference Number: DPT356

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