Job Title
SEN Learning Coach - Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) focus
Job Start Date
3 February 2025
Salary Range
£27,473 - £31,748 actual salary for term time only
Hours Per Week
37.50
Working Pattern
Term time only
School Address
University Of Birmingham School
12 Weoley Park Road
Birmingham
B29 6QU
Contact Email
recruitment@uobschool.org.uk
Contract Type
Permanent
Closing Date
13 January 2025, 9:00am
Job Information

We are seeking to recruit a talented and appropriately qualified SEN Learning Coach, with a specific focus on Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs, including ADHD. This role will enable pupils with special educational needs and/ or disabilities to flourish and make academic and social progress by developing, creating and implementing a range of support programmes and coaching strategies.

The successful candidate will have experience of working with children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, along with a proven record of raising progress and attainment, demonstrating a thorough understanding and knowledge of best practice and the challenges relating to inclusion in mainstream education. They will have the ability to build good relationships with all members of the school community, and exhibit a positive and committed approach to helping each child to maximise their full potential.

We will have high expectations of you to be an outstanding role model committed to the distinctive ethos of our School, where we strive for academic excellence, underpinned by character education.

In return we can offer you:

  • the support of a collaborative and dedicated SEN team
  • a commitment to your continued professional development within school, using additional training days to enhance and develop your knowledge and skills.
  • 3 days per year dedicated to your own research or professional learning
  • access to world class resources, research and people through our partnership with the University of Birmingham involvement in our exciting timetabled enrichment programme

Closing Date: 13 January 2025, 9:00am

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.
How to Apply
For further information and to apply, please visit: http://tinyurl.com/UOBS2024Visits to school are welcome during week commencing 06/01/2025. Please telephone Katie Tennant to arrange. Please note that we cannot accept applications via CV.

How to Apply:

For further information and to apply, please visit: http://tinyurl.com/UOBS2024

Visits to school are welcome during week commencing 06/01/2025. Please telephone Katie Tennant to arrange.

Please note that we cannot accept applications via CV.

Safeguarding
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including:
enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.
References
All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.
Short-listed candidates
An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
Terms and Conditions
This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.
Rehabilitation of Offenders
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.