Assistant SEND Manager (SEMH and Neurodiversity Champion)

Parkside Community School; Birdholme; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Parkside Community School seeks an Assistant SEND Manager to lead SEMH initiatives and champion neurodiversity, ensuring pupils with SEND receive effective, inclusive support. The role includes supporting policy development, monitoring provision, and acting as Deputy SEND Manager to maintain continuity and statutory compliance across the school.

Responsibilities include collaborating with families and external agencies, maintaining SEND records, and ensuring continuous improvement in

Responsibilities

• Champion SEMH across the school, promoting inclusive practice and collaborating with staff, families and external agencies to reduce barriers to learning, participation, attendance, wellbeing and belonging.
• Champion neurodiversity across the school, promoting understanding, acceptance and inclusive practice, ensuring neurodiverse pupils thrive academically, socially and emotionally.
• Support the development and implementation of the school's SEND policy, aligning with the School Improvement Plan, the SEND Code of Practice and statutory requirements; monitor and evaluate SEND provision.
• Act as Deputy to the SEND Manager, providing leadership and operational oversight in their absence, ensuring continuity of support, statutory compliance, day-to-day decision-making, and being a key contact for staff, pupils, families and external agencies.
• Support the SEND Manager in day-to-day SEND provision management, ensuring appropriate support is identified, implemented and reviewed for pupils with SEND to achieve positive educational, social and emotional outcomes; maintain SEND records including the SEND Register, ISPs, provision mapping and SEMH screening information.

Job description

The Assistant SEND Manager (SEMH andNeurodiversity Advocate) will support the identification, assessment andprovision for pupils experiencing Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH)barriers and those with neurodiverse profiles, including autism, ADHD,dyslexia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia and speech, language and communication needs.

Thepost holder will:

• ChampionSEMH across the school, promoting inclusive practice and workingcollaboratively with staff, families and external agencies to reduce barriersto learning, participation, attendance, wellbeing and belonging.
• Champion neurodiversity across the school,promoting understanding, acceptance and inclusive practice, and ensuring thatneurodiverse pupils are supported to thrive academically, socially andemotionally.
• Supportthe development and implementation of the school's Special Educational Needsand Disability (SEND) policy, ensuring alignment with the School ImprovementPlan, the SEND Code of Practice and statutory requirements. Monitor andevaluate the effectiveness of SEND provision to improve outcomes for pupils.
• Act as Deputy to the SEND Manager, providing leadership and operational oversightof SEND provision in their absence. This includes ensuring continuity ofsupport, maintaining statutory compliance, leading day-to-day decision-making,and acting as a key point of contact for staff, pupils, families and externalagencies.
• Supportthe SEND Manager in the day-to-day management of SEND provision, ensuring thatappropriate support is identified, implemented and reviewed for pupils withSEND to enable them to achieve positive educational, social and emotionaloutcomes. Maintain accurate SEND records, including the SEND Register,Individual Support Plans (ISPs), provision mapping and SEMH screeninginformation.

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