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The Old School Childrens centre; Tavistock; On-site; GBP 7,500 - 9,800; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff reductions

Additional holiday entitlement

Pension scales for long-term emp.

Job summary

The Old School Children''s Centre is seeking a dynamic and experienced SENDCo to support our early years team and advocate for children with SEND and their families.

Applicants will have prior experience working directly with young children with SEN, knowledge of frameworks, and the ability to coordinate referrals, signposting and applications while building positive relationships with parents and professionals.

Qualifications

• Experience working directly with young children with SEN.
• Knowledge of SEN frameworks, guidance and best practices.
• Ability to signpost, refer and navigate applications.

Responsibilities

• Uphold ethos and standards, supporting day-to-day management.
• Promote inclusive practice and SEN awareness among practitioners.
• Advise and lead colleagues in delivering an SEN-friendly curriculum.
• Work directly with individual or small groups of children with additional needs as inclusion worker.
• Liaise with parents, carers, practitioners and professionals; arrange meetings and records.
• Navigate referral processes and funding applications (e.g., Early Years SEN Funding).
• Maintain records evidencing a child’s journey and progress.
• Identify and respond to safeguarding concerns appropriately.
• Ensure children’s wellbeing and educational needs are met at all times.
• Support self-evaluation and action planning within the setting.

Job description

The Old School seeks a dynamic and experienced SendCo to support our experienced early years team and advocate for our SEN children and their families.

Applicants will have previous experience working directly with young children with SEN, identifying emerging need and implementing effective interventions and demonstrate a good knowledge and understanding of the frameworks, national guidance and expected practices within SEN. They will be able to effectively build positive professional relationships with practitioners, parents and external agencies and demonstrate experience in monitoring progress and navigating the signposting, referral and application processes.

The working pattern of this position is flexible and open to discussion. Candidates should be aware that there is a need and expectation for some flexibility to ensure SendCo availability for meetings and to best support our children. You will be expected to work independently at times, managing your own calendar and timetable.

This role is 15 hours per week for a minimum of 42 weeks per annum, though all year (50 week) is an option.

Additional hours/ position available for the right candidate as a Curriculum Lead – Please indicate your interest in this upon application.

Purpose of Post

Working in partnership with senior management the SendCo upholds the ethos of the setting, ensuring that children with SEND are advocated in policy and practice.

The SendCo actively promotes inclusive practice within the setting, ensuring that children with SEND are supported within their individual needs and enabled to access a full curriculum.

The SendCo supports and leads the practitioner team in identify emerging needs and building a unique curriculum to support each child’s learning and development journey.

Following the SEN code of practice, the SendCo works with parents/carers and other professionals to ensure that the continuing learning journey of a child with SEND meets their unique needs.

Key Areas

• To uphold the Ethos and Ethos Standards at all times and to support the Senior Manager in the day to day management of the setting with specific responsibility for;
• 1. Promoting an ethos of inclusive practice within the setting, ensuring that all practitioners understand their responsibilities to children with SEND.
• 2. Supporting practitioner teams in recognising, identifying and supporting emerging needs of the children in their care.
• 3. Advising, supporting and leading colleagues in providing a curriculum that supports the needs of the child.
• 4. Working directly with individual /small groups of children with additional needs as their inclusion worker, following their IEPs, implementing strategies and modelling this to the team.
• 5. Effectively liaising and communicating with parents and cars, practitioners and other professionals as necessitated by the needs of the child, including arranging and attending meetings, TAFs etc and keeping good records.
• 6. Ensure a timely navigation of the referral/ additional support and additional resources processes (such as Early Years SEN Funding) are identified, applied for, reviewed.
• 7. Keeping sufficient records to support and evidence a child’s journey and progress.
• 8. Identifying and responding to Safeguarding concerns appropriately
• 9. Ensuring that children’s individual wellbeing and educational needs are met at all times
• 10. Promoting and continuing the setting and unit self-evaluation and action plan process

The Old School Children's Centre is an established and fair employer, offering a structured employee benefits system including staff reductions, additional holiday entitlement and additional pension scales for long term employment.