Assistant Senco - London, United Kingdom - School 21

Description

Core Purpose

To work closely with the Head of Inclusion and SENCO, supporting their role through liaison with students, parents/carers and external bodies.

To provide additional support resources including visual cues and/or design individual revision or key fact cards as needed.

To support students in lessons as requested by the SENCO or Head of Inclusion.

Core Responsibilities
To support the Head of Inclusion and SENCOin ensuring that appropriate provision is made for individual students through:

• Working closely with the SENCO, scrutinising applicants for school places with EHCPs (Education, Health and Care Plans), identifying the extent to which the school can meet their needs, making recommendations for additional resources needed
• Liaising with other schools for entrants and for midterm admissions, attending annual reviews for individual students where practical and where thus delegated by the SENCO.
• Interpretation of information obtained from the assessment procedures used by the school to inform students' learning needs; after advice from the SENCO, identifying and advising on provision for students with special educational needs considering round robins and other information
• Tracking and monitoring progress, using school data collection and analysis systems, intervening and advising of interventions as needed after advice from the Trust SENCO or SENCO
• Taking part in Student Review Group meetings, or liaising with other staff in the school as needed to ensure students' progress is at least good.
• Observing students in lessons and conducting Learning Interviews as directed by the SENCO, providing written feedback to parents, year teams and the SEN team.
• Liaison with external support services with regard to individual students with special educational needs, representing the school as appropriate, including transition arrangements for new students.
• Working with the EP with regard to individual students as required, advising the school on strategies to be implemented or action to be taken
• Liaison with assessor for examination concessions for students with special needs after identification of students by the Trust SENCO or SENCOand ensuring that access arrangements are put in place
• Liaison with Year teams leading on Student of Concern meetings, to ensure that students have suitable programmes of support.
• Meeting with parents regarding individual students' progress, focusing on those with EHCP, and contributing to annual reviews where practical
• To oversee catch up progress, discussing outcomes with the SENCO and Head of Inclusion, and implementing further action in collaboration with the SENCO.
• To lead training or contribute to training of LSAs and other members of teaching and support staff as directed by the SENCO.
• To attend external and internal professional meetings, on behalf of the SEN Team.
• To attend a weekly meeting with the SENCO and a weekly management meeting with the Head of Inclusion.

To lead in the development, monitoring and delivery of the Nurture Programme and other mentoring opportunities to support vulnerable students suggested by the EP through:

• Developing, delivering and monitoring nurture programmes and supporting others to deliver them.
• Attending planning meetings and supporting staff to deliver a wellplanned differentiated curriculum.
• Developing opportunities to celebrate the success of Inclusion and SEND in our community.
• Sharing, developing modelling and observing interventions to ensure that they can be run successfully.
• Working with the EP, SALT, SENCO and Head of Inclusion to design, develop and implement a mentoring programme for key identified students at School 2
• Leading training sessions for all staff on delivering an inclusion classroom curriculum.
• Monitoring, tracking, and presenting data each term to evaluate nurture groups and other interventions.

To implement management of resources assigned to SEN after discussion with theSENCO and Head of Inclusion as follows:

• Take responsibility for SEN areas and use of rooms as directed by the SENCO, including effective organisation of materials and resources held by SEN

To take part in whole school quality assurance procedures e.g. observations, book scrutiny, mark book scrutiny, student feedback

Attending school events, where needed, to provide information or answer queries relating to SEN

Undertaking lunchtime duty or activity (outside your designated lunchtime)

To work within the Borough team as required to support students in class or at social times, including running interventions after school and/or supporting homework clubs.

To supervise other student groups as needed at the end of school.

To undertake training to support Speech and Language training and other small group or individual work.

Carrying out such additional duties as may be reasonably required from time to time by the Head Teacher or Designated Leadership Team Member for