SENCo

Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCo / SENDCo)

Teach. Champion. Empower. Safeguard.

Starting Salary: Dependent on Experience

• £47,064 - £50,416 per annum (unqualified)
• £54,060 - £56,710 per annum (with NASENCo qualification)

Location: TCES National Online School (Wimbledon with remote working)

Contract: Permanent, Term time only

This role is open to appropriately experienced applicants with the NASENCo qualification or who are willing to undertake.

We are seeking a highly child-centric education professional to lead the provision of SEN support within our National Online School, providing guidance and advice to tutors and parents in order to fully support the needs of highly complex and vulnerable young people across the UK who access online education.

In this role you will coordinate and oversee all annual reviews, and chair meetings remotely, ensuring they are undertaken in an appropriate timely manner and is a pupil-centric review, inclusive of the pupil's own voice, as part of the wider remit of delivering strategic development of the online school's Special Educational Needs (SEN) provision.

You will also collaborate with the Headteacher, senior leaders, and members of the multi-disciplinary staff team (clinical and inclusion) to ensure that all pupils and staff members have appropriate and effective resources to raise pupil outcomes, and with the young person at the centre of everything they do, support them to reach their full potential.

The service operates through an online delivery model which requires a high level of collaboration and stakeholder management.

Essential requirements to be successful in the role are:

• A champion of SEN and advocate for young people, with similar values to ours: Expect the very best from each other; Develop a strong work ethic; Respect and appreciate all difference; Include everyone and exclude no one; Listen to and involve everyone; Never give up on each other!
• Resilient and robust, role modelling outstanding professionalism.
• Substantial demonstrable experience in meeting the needs of individuals and providing bespoke interventions.
• Proven experience of educational administration linked to Education, Health & Care Plans (EHCPs).
• Competent digital skills, including a good understanding of IT systems and the ability to use them effectively as a member of an online school.
• Proven skills as a collaborative and supportive member of a senior team, actively engaging in solutions focused decision making and interpretation of the SEN Code of Practice.
• Proven skills in coaching & mentoring.
• Organised with attention to detail.
• Proactive and innovative, collaborating with team members in other disciplines, whilst also with the ability to work flexibly and independently.

In return we offer:  

• An opportunity to make a real difference and join a leading provider of specialist education, directly contributing towards positive outcomes for neurodiverse pupils.  
• Excellent CPD opportunities with all staff provided an individual Learning & Development Plan to support career development, including education qualifications at all levels (QTS / QTLS / NPQs / NASENCo) and options to take progressive Ofqual registered Level 3 – 5 qualifications in Therapeutic Education.  
• Comprehensive induction process, including all pupil-facing staff supported in receiving the Level 3 Award in Therapeutic Education and Group Process.  
• Regular half termly staff wellbeing days.  
• A range of employee support and wellbeing benefits including our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), counselling and contributions towards medical costs and an exclusive rewards platform.

The Company

TCES is an independent social enterprise, providing specialist therapeutic education based in London supporting exceptional neurodiverse children and young people aged 7 to 19 who have special educational needs and disabilities typically associated with autism, social emotional and mental health needs and associated disorders. Most of them will have experienced multiple placement breakdowns and significant trauma, often resulting in behaviour that challenges. On average pupils will have been excluded from other provisions up to three times before reaching us and had significant periods out of education.  

TCES pupils learn at one of our two schools, at our Create Learning Primary, through our Create in the Community service or within our National Online School; our Create services support our most complex and vulnerable pupils, with highly differentiated and personalised holistic therapeutic education programmes developed for each pupil focusing on development milestones. When they are ready, we aim for pupils to step down from Create into one of our main school, our Sixth Form, or into mainstream provisions. 

Closing date 30 April 2024

To apply

Please complete the online application form or contact recruitment@tces.org.uk for more information.

TCES is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and expects all staff to share this commitment. The appointment is subject to all relevant checks such as references, medical clearance and a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure.