Assistant Senco - Billesley Primary School

Vacancy Reference
JOB002919
Job Title
Assistant Senco
Job Start Date
1 March 2025
Salary Range
MPR/UPR plus TLR
Hours Per Week
32.5
School Address
Billesley Primary School
Trittiford Road
Birmingham
B13 0ES
Telephone number: 0121 675 2800
Contact Email
finance@billesleyschool.co.uk
Contract Type
Permanent
Closing Date
31 January 2025, midnight
Job Information

Join our team
We are looking to appoint an inspirational Assistant SENCO to support the SENCO and Inclusion Lead in ensuring effective provision for pupils with SEND, EAL, newly arrived (where relevant) and those with SEMH challenges.
In our most recent Ofsted Inspection in May 2019, we were judged Outstanding in all areas and continue to thrive as an organisation.
‘The provision for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) is outstanding. Disadvantaged pupils also receive exceptional support. This enables these pupils to make excellent progress in all subjects’
Ofsted 2019

You will

  • be passionate about supporting children across the school
  • demonstrate advocacy for pupils with SEND
  • display warmth, care and sensitivity in dealing with children
  • be open minded, self evaluative and adaptable to changing circumstances and new ideas
  • be able to enthuse and reflect upon experience
  • have ability to work flexibly
  • demonstrate drive, energy, enthusiasm
  • have the ability to prioritise and organise self
  • have good interpersonal/communication skills

You must have a degree in a relevant area and have experience of working with children.

How to Apply

A full vacancy information pack can be found at this link.

 

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; Prohibition check; 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.