Senco - Thurrock, United Kingdom - Harris Federation

Harris Federation

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Thurrock, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Summary

Do you have experience supporting students with SEN? Harris Primary Academy Mayflower is seeking to appoint an exceptional, experienced qualified teacher as SENCO.

About Us

Harris Primary Academy Mayflower is a successful academy that was judged outstanding in every category in our May 2017 Ofsted inspection.

We are a 5 form entry primary school, opening with a Reception cohort and are growing by a year group at a time with currently 1042 pupils on roll from Nursery to Year 6.

This will make our academy, which was funded under the free school programme with backing from Thurrock council, the Department for Education and the Harris Federation which sponsors the free school, the biggest primary free school in the country.

We are a sister school to Harris Primary Academy Chafford Hundred and Harris Academy Chafford Hundred, along with the other Academies in the Harris Federation.

We work very closely together and share the very best practice and leadership knowledge and capacity to make the education we offer outstanding.

Our shared belief is that children thrive when they feel consistently happy and safe at school and our commitment to excellence is encapsulated in our vision statement:
"Excellence, Every child, Every day."

Our Core values of :
Manners, Perseverance, Responsibility, Community and Achievement, underpin everything that happens at Harris Primary Academy Mayflower.

They are our foundations and we have a clear expectation that all adults as well as children and staff model and respect these values both inside and outside the academy.

These foundations have enabled us to build high quality, inspiring education for our children within the two years the academy has been open.

This is reflected in both the exceptional day to day practice here as well as the outstanding outcomes our children have achieved in each year.

Main Areas of Responsibility Job Purpose**- To ensure that Academy practice is compliant with the SEND Code of Practice and other relevant statutory requirements.

To work with the Academy Leadership team ensuring an ethos of Inclusion within the Academy and a culture of high aspirations for students with SEND.
To work with the Academy Leadership team ensuring the implementation of the Academy SEND Policy.
To ensure that the provision of SEND support is in accordance with the aims of the Academy and the curricular policies determined by the Governing Body and Principal of the Academy.
To be responsible for maintaining the Academy's SEND Profile, ensuring that it is always uptodate and is an accurate picture of student SEND need across the Academy.
To be responsible for the accurate identification of SEND need across the Academy, ensuring a rigorous and thorough assessment process.
To be a role model with regard to Quality First Teaching and differentiation within your own teaching practice.
To be responsible for the embedding of Quality First Teaching across the Academy.
To be responsible for the Academy SEND Offer, ensuring high quality targeted interventions enabling students with SEND to make better progress.
In consultation with the Academy Leadership Team, to provide a programme of professional development with regard to SEND, that ensures all staff have the knowledge, skills and understanding to plan teaching and learning effectively and enable students with SEND to make expected progress.
To be responsible for tracking the progress of students with SEND, using a wide range of Academy data relating to progress, attainment, referrals, exclusions, detentions and attendance to identify barriers to learning.
To deploy staff and resources according to the needs of SEND students.
To write a termly report to the Governing body on progress and developments.

Operational/Strategic Planning

To work with Heads of Department, Coordinators and Faculty Directors to ensure that Quality First Teaching Strategies are embedded in teaching and learning across the Academy.
To work with Heads of Department, Coordinators and Faculty Directors to ensure that strategies on Student SEN Profiles are being used as part of the lesson planning process and are integral to teaching and learning across the Academy.
To work with Heads of Department, Coordinators and Faculty Directors to monitor, evaluate and review the quality of teaching and learning across the Academy, with regard to SEND students
To work with teachers, Heads of Department, Coordinators and Faculty Directors to ensure that Quality First Teaching is embedded in teaching and learning.
To work with Faculty Directors to monitor the academic progress of students with SEND within the Academy, ensuring expected progress and the provision of targeted interventions as appropriate.
To work with Heads of Department, Coordinators and Faculty Directors to ensure efficient and effective use of Teaching Assistant support.
To ensure that the SEND Development plan has clear aims and ob