SENCO

Job Title: SENCo

Contract: Full time or Part time, Permanent (0.6 - 3 days per week or 0.8 - 4 days per week for the right candidate)

Salary: Leadership L1-L5 - (£47,185 to £52,073 per annum)

Actual Salary: 0.6 = £28,311 - £31,244 /0.8 = £37,748 - £41,658

Start: As soon as possible

We are looking for a SENCO to join our supportive and talented team at Lansdown Park Academy. The CLF is a diverse multi-academy trust, looking for professional and ambitious people, with a passion for transforming our students’ learning.

What we are looking for:

We are looking for a SENCO to join our supportive and talented team at Lansdown Park Academy. The CLF is a diverse multi-academy trust, looking for professional and ambitious people, with a passion for transforming our students’ learning.

What we are looking for: 

To be successful in the post, we are looking for a professional who can take on the role of SENCO to provide oversight and tracking of all SEND students including SEMH across the Academy to monitor impact and to direct the quality of provision, ensuring that students are supported as individuals. You will work closely with wider SEND team, the Inclusion team, and the Senior Leadership Team, to ensure that all vulnerable students are supported to achieve, receive the appropriate statutory provision and are supported to be successful. 

This role will be based across Primary and Secondary (KS1-3) with a small teaching allocation to cover PPA. The post will also include SEN administration for all pupils and the successful candidate will represent Lansdown Park Academy at key local authority panels.

About the Cabot Learning Federation: 

The Cabot Learning Federation is a diverse Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) in the South West. We are proud to serve 18,000+ pupils who all attend ten secondary academies, seventeen primary academies, an all through provision, a studio school, a discrete Post 16 provision, two alternative provision schools and three SEMH special schools.  

CLF is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The trust is proud to serve a diverse student population and their communities. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.  

We are proud to be part of diverse communities in the region and celebrate the richness of cultures, faiths and backgrounds of our students. We aim to develop a curriculum that is responsive to our pupil’s needs and reflects their diverse interests and backgrounds.  

How to Apply: 

To Apply, you will need to click the 'Apply Now' button on this page, which will redirect you to the CLF advert page. Within the CLF advert page, you can download and review the job description and person specification and then register/login to apply for the role.

CV’s will not be accepted and any submitted will not be considered alongside your application.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.    

If you have a query on any aspect of the application process, or need additional support with the submission of your application, please email the CLF recruitment team. 

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Safeguarding and pre-employment checks: 

The Cabot Learning Federation are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This role has significant responsibility for ensuring safeguarding practice within the academy. This role involves working with children on a daily basis and is therefore in regulated activity. 

The successful applicant will, in accordance with statutory guidance, be subject to a comprehensive pre-employment checking process including references from current and previous employers, health, right to work in the UK and a child disqualification check. The checks will also include an enhanced DBS check and a further check against the appropriate barred list.