Senip Foundation Degree Officer - Feltham, United Kingdom - Reach Academy Feltham

Reach Academy Feltham

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SENIP Foundation Degree Officer

Job Description & Person Specification

March 2023

Degree officer, Special Educational Needs and Inclusive Practice, The Reach Foundation

Location:
Reach Foundation, TW13 4AU

Contract:1 year fixed term contract*, 0.5 FTE (approx. 2.5 days per week), term time only

Position reports to:
SENIP Degree Lead

Start Date:
As soon as possible

Introduction to the Reach Foundation

The Reach Foundation is a charitable organisation providing cradle-to-career support to families in order to ensure every child can enjoy a life of choice and opportunity.

The Foundation's activities consist of:

Reach Academy Feltham, an Outstanding allthrough school educating 900 pupils aged 21
The Reach Children's Hub, providing cradletocareer support and services to parents and their children (aged 021+)
The Feltham Convening Partnership, a collective impact initiative to improve outcomes for children and young people (CYP) across the community
Reach Training, a series of networks, opportunities and resources to share our learning more widely across the UK.

Position summary

We are seeking to recruit an experienced practitioner with expertise in Special Educational Needs, who shares our passion for developing professional and leadership capacity across the sector, locally in Feltham.

We plan to do this by:

Delivering Kingston University's
Special Educational Needs and Inclusive Practice (SENIP)

foundation degree course:
a 2-year, work-based degree for practitioners looking to deepen their knowledge and open more opportunities for career progression.

Setting up a
Special Educational Needs Network, which will bring together local practitioners

(building on the existing Feltham Convening Partnership SEN Working Group): offer free training to practitioners and seek to raise awareness/galvanise the provision for all SEND students locally.

Following on from the successful work to build up the Early Years Network and Kingston University's

Early Years Foundation degree provision in Feltham, this is an exciting opportunity to create a new teaching team with responsibility for developing a high quality SEND careers development pathway.

The SENIP team will be able to use the wealth of experience gained by the Early Careers team to accelerate the SENIP model.

The Degree Officer's main focus would be delivering the degree course, as well as supporting the SENIP Degree Lead with the wider development pipeline offer.

Outcomes

Teach and support students to successfully complete the SENIP Foundation Degree course
Act as a core member of the SENIP Practice team to ensure successful implementation of the workforce development pipeline offer
Fulfil your role inline with the vision, values and principles of the Foundation in order to ensure children and young people can enjoy lives of choice and opportunity.

Responsibilities
We are going to start delivering the SENIP Foundation degree course in September 2023 and are also recruiting a SENIP Degree Lead to start as soon as possible, in preparation for the course beginning in

September.

The role of Degree Officer will vary and evolve as the degree course and our wider workforce development pipeline grow through different developmental phases.

The responsibilities outlined below are therefore not exclusive and are intended to give examples of the expected areas of work for the Degree Officer:

Support the SENIP team to deliver, teach and lead on the SENIP Foundation Degree
Contribute to the administration related to the SENIP Foundation Degree as appropriate to experience
Contribute to the planning of online materials for distance learning purposes
Set, assess and moderate work as required
Act as an academic advisor for groups of students and as a personal tutor to individuals
Attend Kingston University meetings as required e.g. Assessment Boards, moderation and training
Participate in Open Days and recruitment of potential students
Contribute to marketing and publicity of the degree across the community
Support with the planning and implementation of other activities across the EY workforce development pipeline e.g. the Early Years Network, apprenticeships
Work in accordance with the Reach Foundation and Kingston University Equal Opportunities

Policies

Person specification

Qualifications & experience:

Essential criteria:

A postgraduate degree in a relevant area
Uptodate knowledge of current developments in the field of special education in the UK and more widely

Desirable criteria:

Qualified Teacher status
A SENDrelated professional qualification
Recent successful experience of lecturing, work or research in special needs education or policy setting.
Experience of working with students within a Higher Education or Further Education setting.
Experience in the area of continuing professional development, advisory