Job Description and Person Specification Job Title Responsible to Responsible For Context Strategic Responsibilities Head of Learning Support and SENCo Headmaster Providing strategic leadership for SEND across the school to ensure that provision is structured and mapped optimally, so that the school remains structurally equipped for SEND students to make excellent progress. This is a full-time appointment. Cundall Manor School has a non-selective intake with pupils from a full range of abilities. Our nurturing environment usually ensures excellent value-added performance at GCSE placed within a curriculum which is determinedly holistic. The aims of the school include maximising the achievements of each pupil and developing their personal qualities. This role is key to helping achieve these aims in collaboration with parents, pupils, external professionals and members of the leadership team. Positive, effective relationships are integral to the successful working of the school and the safety and wellbeing of the pupils. • Manage the strategic development of Learning Enhancement across the School. • Oversee Learning Enhancement in all forms, from SEN (Special Educational Needs) to HPL, and ensure that the school structure and provision model remain optimal. • Report to SLT as required on staffing, provision mapping, statutory obligations, and structural review updates. • • Have a strong understanding of the strategic aims of Cundall Manor School, and use these to map provision of Learning Enhancement. Liaise closely with each phase of the school to ensure that SEN provision model, and the profile of students is mapped effectively across the organisation, especially robust processes between Key Stages. • Work closely with admissions team to monitor and advise on • • recruitment and profile of new students. Liaise closely with external feeder schools at key transition points into school. Lead on the development and implementation of inclusive practice throughout the school. • Advise on and deliver whole staff training on inclusive practice and quality first teaching as required. • Oversee and maintain an accurate SEND register and provision map to ensure that provision always meets the needs of students and statutory provision. Ensure this is shared with teaching staff. • Ensure that the school carries out its statutory responsibilities regarding all students with SEND. • Ensure that pupils with learning support needs are appropriately supported, considering their areas of strength and difficulty. • Work with SLT to ensure pupils needs are being supported through learning walks and book looks. • Ensure that subject teachers are kept informed about the individual needs of those with academic and pastoral support needs and how they can best be supported. Identify those pupils who may need additional short or long-term support, write and implement support programmes for them, • Job Description and Person Specification Operational Responsibilities Person specification including Pupil Profiles (and EHCPs where applicable), in close liaison with Heads of Phase. Lead the Picture of Need process and communicate expectations with staff. Lead on record keeping, so that records are maintained, updated and in optimal format for clarity and utility. • • • Establish and maintain strong working relationships with pupils, classroom-based staff, form tutors, parents, and outside professionals to ensure that pupils are properly supported across the school. • Research and keep abreast of new initiatives and research in SEND. • Specific knowledge of the JCQ regulations in ensuring that those who qualify for access arrangements (AAs) in examinations are provided for. • Coordinate assessments with outside professionals such as educational psychologists or medical practitioners where appropriate. • Organise the assessment of pupils who may require AAs and ensure all paperwork up to date. • Work closely with the Exams Officer to ensure that the necessary arrangements are made to support pupils in both internal and external examinations. • Coordinate the EHCP process with relevant teaching staff and ensure all statutory deadlines are met. • Maintain effective and proactive communication with parents and guardians. • Work with each department to ensure their provision of additional learning support is fitting and effective. • Work with the pastoral team and health and wellbeing team to ensure SEMH and physical needs of pupils are met. • Fulfil the leadership role of Head of Department. • Attend HODs and pastoral meetings and other whole school committees as required. • Manage the Learning Support team and their continuing professional development. • Chair weekly department meetings. • Oversee staff deployment within the department. • Manage apprentice LSAs within the department and support their training needs. • Outstanding administrative and organisational skills. • Accredited SENCO qualification. • Knowledge of the SEN Code of Conduct and its practical application strategies for meeting the needs of SEN of pupils in a mixed ability classroom. • Ability to process Access Arrangements for public exams. • Able to coordinate EAA and Dyslexia assessments. • Experience of working in Middle Leadership (desirable). • Qualified Teacher Status (desirable). • A lover of granular detail, a fast and accurate worker, and a finisher. Job Description and Person Specification • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written. • Experience and enjoyment of working with children and young adults. Offer Conditions Cundall Manor School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, therefore, the offer of employment is subject to the satisfactory completion of a number of background checks including but not limited to an enhanced DBS check with Children’s Barred List check, the taking up and verification of references and the verification of career history and fitness to undertake the role, as well as an online check. Health and Safety Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and subsequent legislation, the school is obliged to provide you with a workplace and working conditions which so far as is reasonably practicable, are safe and without risk to health. You are required by health and safety legislation to take reasonable care for your own health and safety and for the health and safety of others. Commensurate on experience, to include employer pension contribution and lunch. Full Time, Permanent. Other Conditions Salary Contract