Associate Senco - Rugby, United Kingdom - Transforming Lives Educational Trust

Transforming Lives Educational Trust

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Description

ocation:
Houlton School

Job title:
Associate SENDCo

Salary:
Term Time + 5 days NJC17 £26, NJC22 £29,439.00 FTE

Actual Salary:
£22, £24,977.03

Start date:
As soon as possible

Key relationships:
All staff, pupils and families who are part of the Houlton Family

Job purpose:

To support the Head of Faculty: Inclusion in establishing a positive learning culture for all pupils with additional needs.
To lead and manage the deployment of TA's and deputise for the Head of Faculty: Inclusion as required.
To assume responsibility for a caseload of SEND support pupils conducting meetings with families and external agencies as required.
To manage and maintain Provision Maps for pupils with SEND, developing tracking systems and analysis for learners with EHCP's / SEND.
To support the embedding of the core values of Houlton School.
To support the welfare of pupils with SEND and to work with families to ensure all pupils make excellent progress.

Main roles and responsibilities:

To share and support the school's responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for personal and academic growth.
To collaborate with teaching staff and liaise with parents as appropriate.
To be on call when needed to support children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties.
To work with the Pupil Experience Team to support welfare issues of SEND pupils and liaise with external agencies where approapote.
To help remove welfare barriers to learning, enabling pupils to make at least expected progress.
To deal with issues in a positive manner, communicating actions to staff and parents as appropriate.
To provide pupils with the guidance, support, challenge and resources required to sustain motivation and improve attainment.
To support TA's to ensure that they are present in lessons as specified on their timetables.
To work collaboratively with Heads of Faculty to ensure the implementation of intervention strategies and support the Head of Faculty for Inclusion in the QA of these strategies.
To plan and deliver interventions in groups and on a onetoone basis with pupils as part of the intervention strategy.
To develop curriculum resources in collaboration with the Head of Faculty: Inclusion and relevant class teachers to ensure that pupils with send can access a full and wellrounded curriculum and have the required level of support.
To plan and deliver sessions that support emotional wellbeing.
To provide in class support and work with individuals where required.
To support the Head of Faculty: Inclusion to carry out in depth testing of pupils to better understand their learning, communication or SEMH needs. Use the information gathered from the testing to inform classroom strategies and additional interventions.
To actively use SIMS, CPOMS and Edulink to ensure that incidents and actions are meticulously logged.
To liaise with outside agencies and attend meetings as appropriate.
To attend meetings and reviews as necessary, contacting parents as required.
To build relationships with parents and resolve issues, liaising with external agencies as directed.
To complete any necessary paperwork or referrals as directed by the Head of Faculty.
To be alert to safeguarding issues, log and pass on concerns as appropriate, deal confidentially and sensitively with parents and students undergoing difficulties.
To collate accounts and collation of information in response to incidents of challenging behaviour.
To form positive relationships with children and their families.
To provide a link between the school and external agencies.
To supervise and monitor peer mentoring schemes as required.
Develop links to ensure and enhance the understanding of the school amongst new and existing parents/carers.
Supervise detentions as required.
Respect confidentiality at all times.
Ensure that all duties and services provided are in accordance with School's Equal Opportunities Policy.
To enforce expectations with regard to uniform, attendance, punctuality and respectful behaviour

Management Information

To line manage the TA team.
To maintain appropriate records and to provide relevant accurate and uptodate information for MIS, registers, etc.
To complete the relevant documentation to assist the Head of Faculty: Inclusion as required.

Marketing and Liaison

To take part in marketing and liaison activities such as Open Evenings, Parents Evenings, Review days and liaison events with partner schools.
To promote a positive image of Houlton School through dealings with outside bodies.

Management of Resources

To contribute to the process of the ordering and allocation of equipment and materials.
To cooperate with other staff to ensure a sharing and effective usage of resources to the benefit of the school, team and the pupils.

Pupil Support