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JOB DESCRIPTION – Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Co-ordinator (SENDCo)
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Salary: L4
Line Manager: Vice Principal
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To ensure a consistent whole Academy approach to achieving high standards through the high
quality delivery of SEND support by all staff.
To ensure the Academy is meeting all of its legal responsibilities relating to SEND.
To maintain and promote the Academy’s pursuit of excellence in all professional practice.
To fully implement all Academy policies and procedures.
To line manage the Inclusion department
Key Accountabilities (General):
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Advise and support individual staff and HoS in meeting the needs of young people with SEND.
To ensure staff are differentiating learning content to meet the identified needs of young people
with SEND that enables them to make progress.
To review and update the SEND policy.
To make applications and co-ordinate Formal Assessment, where appropriate.
To conduct and co-ordinate reviews for students with Education and Health Care Plans.
To oversee the reviewing and reporting process for young people on the SEND register.
Ensure that young people’s performance targets are set, monitored and reported and that provision
mapping is completed.
To ensure teaching staff use Inclusion Assistants (IAs) as effectively as possible in the planning and
delivery of learning for young people with SEND.
To performance manage Inclusion Assistants, the Inclusion Manager and the Assistant Inclusion
Manager.
To develop the Inclusion Team’s use and handling of data to monitor the progress of young people
with SEND, implementing and recording interventions as required
To create annually, a tailored, relevant CPD programme for all staff within the Academy.
To create annually, a tailored, relevant CPD programme for the Inclusion Team in conjunction with
the Inclusion Manager.
To quality assure evidence pertaining to the effective use by staff of:
o key information (SEN register, student passports, annual review summaries etc)
o differentiation
o deployment of IAs
o displays and support material for young people with SEND
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Assist the Transition Co-ordinator with the progression and transfer of young people with SEND.
Prioritise and manage own time effectively, particularly in relation to managing the demands made
by teaching, leadership and working with the Inclusion Team.
Status of this Job Description
This Job Description is provided as guidance regarding the Academy’s professional expectations of you in
accordance with your contract of employment.
This Job Description is not your contract of employment and cannot in anyway remove your statutory rights.
This job description will be reviewed at least annually.
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