- Vacancy Reference
- JOB003159
- Job Title
- Assistant SENCo
- Job Start Date
- 1 September 2025
- Salary Range
- MPR/UPR + TLR2b £5,641
- Hours Per Week
- Full time
- School Address
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Aston Tower Community Primary School
Upper Sutton Street
Birmingham
B6 5BE
Telephone number: 0121 327 0339 - Contact Email
- vacancies@astontower.bham.sch.uk
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Closing Date
- 7 March2025, 1:00pm
- Job Information
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The role:
We are seeking to appoint an Assistant SENCo, from a successful teaching background, to work alongside our Deputy Headteacher to ensure the success of our pupils with special education needs and disabilities (SEND). The successful candidate should promote high expectations of SEND pupils and provide the pastoral support they need. The successful candidate should be able to work effectively with staff, parents of SEND pupils and external agencies. Although the role's main focus will be on mainstream pupils, this is an exciting time at Aston Tower as we are opening our resource base for pupils with autism.
The school:
Aston Tower is a popular two-form entry multi-cultural school that serves a community which really values and supports our work. We have friendly, responsive and enthusiastic children whose attitudes to learning were described as ‘excellent’ by Ofsted along with their outstanding behaviour. Our staff team is skilled, caring, and committed; trustees are keen to be involved and highly supportive. The school is very well-resourced. Our well-kept modern premises are set in spacious grounds which lend themselves to being further developed to promote our pupils’ learning. This term we are opening a resource base for pupils with Special Educational Needs following approval from the Department for Education (DfE). The school received a highly successful Ofsted inspection in October 2024 and was awarded the Leading Parent Partnership Award recognising our excellent work with parents.
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How to apply:
Potential candidates are invited to speak to the Headteacher about the role and can book an appointment by email to: vacancies@astontower.bham.sch.uk
An application form and person specification are available from our website
- 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.