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Senior Leader Inclusion/SENDCo

Employer
Birmingham City Council
Location
Hall Green School an Academy, Southam Road, Birmingham, B28 0AA
Salary
Leadership Spine L6-L10
Closing date
9 Jun 2022

Job Details

Hours: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Hall Green School an Academy

Southam Road

Birmingham

B28 0AA

Telephone Number: 0121 628 8787

Email Address: recruitment@hallgreen.bham.sch.uk

Job Start Date: 05/09/2022

We are currently seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and well qualified Senior Leader: Inclusion/SENDCo, a colleague who can:

  • provide strategic direction and development of SEND provision
  • provide strategic direction and development of the wider Inclusion strategy
  • assist with teaching and learning and pastoral needs
  • lead and manage staff ensuring efficient and effective deployment of staff and resources
  • work as part of the Senior Leadership Team

You will have a proven track record of raising achievement for different groups of students through a wide range of support and intervention strategies. The successful candidate will strategically direct and co-ordinate provision for students with a range of additional needs in SEND, leading a highly committed and experienced team. You will be supported in your role by a highly experienced, committed non-teaching Administrative Assistant to the SENDCo, in addition to a large team of dedicated Teaching Assistants.

In addition, you will lead on the important Inclusion strategy; ensuring high quality provision for a range of groups of pupils including Looked After Children (LAC), English as an Additional Language (EAL), Recently Arrived Pupils (RAP) and our Hub provision for pupils with complex behaviour needs.

The successful candidate will serve on the Senior Leadership Team (SLT). SLT members are responsible for co-ordinating and leading major areas of school life, and, by working with colleagues, ensuring that all school policies work in a coherent manner to maintain and improve the quality of provision we offer all students. As such, SLT members make a major contribution to setting and maintaining standards in the school. Hall Green School is a very popular, heavily oversubscribed and academically successful 11-16 Converter Academy. We are a highly diverse institution, both ethnically and as a fully accessible mainstream school, attracting pupils from across the city with physical disabilities. We have wonderful students who fully contribute to the school’s ‘caring, nurturing and inclusive culture’ described by Ofsted (2019) as ‘a welcoming and inclusive school’ where ‘pupils are happy, and they achieve well’ and the ‘positive relationships between pupils and staff are a hallmark of the school’. Most importantly, we are looking for a candidate who shares the school’s approach and commitment to the success and wellbeing of its young people. You are warmly invited to speak to the Headteacher and to make an appointment to visit the school in action.

Closing Date: 9 June 2022, 9am

For further details and an application pack please see the school website where application packs are available to download under the vacancies section.

Please note that all applicants must complete the school’s application form only. Any other form of application or CVs alone will not be accepted.

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.  All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

 

Applicants please note: This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment. Please use the contact details in the advert for information on actual employment conditions.

 

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

 

Company

Working for Birmingham City Council is more than just a job; it's about making life better for the 1 million plus people who live and work in the city.

We welcome people from diverse and underrepresented communities and encourage applications from, those with caring responsibilities, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, neurodivergent, disabled and LGBT+ people. As part of our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, we are committed to promoting and supporting the physical and mental health of all our staff and removing barriers to improve inclusion.   We are making significant strides to understand and continuously improve our employees’ experience and we are committed to implementing progressive diversity talent management.

Information for applicants with a disability

We are a proud Disability Confident Employer.  We encourage applicants to disclose disabilities, so we can support them fully during our recruitment process and make any necessary reasonable adjustments. Please contact: 0121 675 7070 option 3 (lines open between 8.45am to 5.15pm Monday to Friday).

If you require an application in an alternative format, such as Braille or you are unable to complete an application form via WMJOBS, please contact bccHR@birmingham.gov.uk. When you have completed your application form this can be returned to bccHR@birmingham.gov.uk or for Braille applications these can be posted to, Recruitment Team, 2nd Floor, 10 Woodcock Street, B7 4BG.

The Council is a fantastic place to work. You will find an organisation that is both challenging and supportive; with a leadership impatiently adventurous in its pursuit of excellence. 

There is a clear vision which is ensuring that the Council is working for communities today and building for tomorrow, we focus our resources on five key priorities:

  • A Prosperous Birmingham: through a focus on inclusive economic growth, tackling unemployment, attracting inward investment, and maximising the benefits of the Commonwealth Games.
  • An Inclusive Birmingham: through a focus on tackling poverty and inequality, empowering citizens, promoting diversity and civic pride, and supporting and enabling all children and young people to thrive.
  • A Safe Birmingham: through a focus on making the city safer, safeguarding vulnerable citizens, increasing affordable housing, and tackling homelessness.
  • A Healthy Birmingham: through a focus on tackling health inequalities, encouraging physical activity and healthy living, supporting mental health, and improving outcomes for adults with disabilities and older people.
  • A Green Birmingham: through a focus on street cleanliness, improving air quality, continuing the route to net zero, and becoming a city of nature.

We see the Council’s role as providing strategic leadership – that’s being able to visualise a new future for the city and equipping others to share our vision. We want to ensure the provision of services for all, so we can support those least able to support themselves by working with partners and putting citizens and neighbourhoods at the heart of our decision-making.

We are always looking for people who put the customer at the centre of their approach, with a commitment to excellence to help us achieve our vision.  We will support you to develop and thrive in your role, building a pathway for long-term success, with lots of development opportunities, such as apprenticeships.

In return, we offer you excellent terms and conditions, generous annual leave, a great pension scheme, well-being support, annual travel passes and discounts at a number of city centre establishments.

Birmingham City Council is a Foundation Living wage employer - known as the Birmingham Living Wage. The Birmingham Living Wage, is determined by the Living Wage Foundation on an annual basis by the Centre of Research in Society Polity at Loughborough University. The current rate can be found at: www.livingwage.org.uk.

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Birmingham
West Midlands
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United Kingdom

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