SENCO & Head of Learning Support
Forest Hill School
Lewisham
- Expired
- Salary:
- £27,543 to £45,905 plus £10,916 pa TLR 1.3 (inner London) per annum pro rata
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2015
- Apply by:
- 15 May 2015
Job overview
An allowance of £12,642 (TLR 1.4) may be available to a suitably experienced candidate
We are seeking to appoint a dynamic and inspirational SENCO to lead our highly successful SEN Department. Ideally you will hold the National SENCO Award or its equivalent. However, there may be the opportunity for an applicant to train to acquire the relevant qualification on commencing the role. You will lead a team within the Learning Support Department as well as having a whole school role working with teaching staff to challenge and support students with additional educational needs to make the best progress possible. The successful candidate will be an outstanding teacher with a passion for learning, a solid understanding of the new SEN Code of Practice and excellent organisational and leadership skills.
Forest Hill is a thriving all-ability inclusive community school with a reputation for providing the highest quality educational opportunities for all its students. We have a large and flourishing Learning Support Department currently comprising of the SENCO, four teachers and a team of HLTAs, Inclusions’ Support Assistants and Learning Mentors. We have developed strong in-house systems to identify and support students presenting with a range of SEND and outcomes for this group are good. At our most recent Ofsted inspection the school was judged to be Good with Outstanding Leadership and Behaviour.
Please visit our website at www.foresthillschool.co.uk to make direct on-line applications, which must be returned to vacancies@foresthillschool.co.uk.
Informal visits are welcome and should be arranged directly with Mr Haresign – Associate Headteacher.
Closing date for applications is 12 noon Friday 15th May 2015 with interviews scheduled for week commencing 18th May 2015. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be notified and that the interview process will include a lesson observation.
Forest Hill School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Our commitment is underpinned by robust processes and procedures that seek to maximise opportunity, minimise risk and continuously promote a culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce.
FOREST HILL SCHOOL
A SPECIALIST SCHOOL IN PERFORMING ARTS
Dacres Road Forest Hill London SE23 2XN
Roll 1360: Boys 11-16, Mixed 16-19
Tel: 020 8699 9343
www.foresthillschool.co.uk
About Forest Hill School
Forest Hill’s ethos is aptly summarised in our motto Aspiring to Excellence Together. We are a community in which mutual support and a spirit of relentless ambition drive a desire to ensure that we constantly strive to surpass previous achievements. All community members are encouraged and expected to contribute to this culture thus ensuring that the creativity and evolution of our student offer is maintained. We are a performing arts’ school, but creativity does not simply apply to our performing arts’ subjects; it also applies to the academic curriculum in which we promote engagement, enquiry and ingenuity. We want our students to emerge from Forest Hill School as engaged citizens and leaders of the future, fully equipped to confidently enter a competitive world.
We communicate and reinforce the vision and ethos of the school community through our Core Values (https://foresthill.lewisham.sch.uk/motto-and-values/), which were developed in consultation with all stakeholders:
• Hard Work
• Ambition
• Respect
• Kindness
All aspects of life at Forest Hill is underpinned by these values, and we promote them as the prerequisites of academic excellence and success. The values also encapsulate a sense of pride in belonging to Forest Hill, something which is shared by all students and staff.
Headteacher
Mike Sullivan
Ofsted report
Pupils study a broad and interesting curriculum. The school has carefully considered the important knowledge that they want pupils to study. In the sixth form, a wide range of A-level choices is supplemented by several different vocational qualifications. Within subjects, the chosen topics of study have been put together in a logical way. This helps pupils to build on their prior knowledge so they learn more and remember more over time. This means that, from the start, pupils are well prepared for the rigour of GCSEs and for sixth-form studies. Leaders also make sure that content is relevant and interesting for pupils.
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