Interim SENCo/Head of Inclusion — Hackney

Competitive rates | Hackney, London | Self-employed hours

Why ASEND?

• Competitive pay: Generous and competitive rates of pay, reflecting your specialist expertise.
• Flexible working: Flexible assignments you can arrange around your existing schedule, within school term time and school hours.
• Dedicated support: You’ll be supported by our specialist and experienced SEND team throughout every assignment.
• Professional development: Opportunities for CPD and training in working with children with SEND.
• A role with purpose: Join a specialist SEND organisation making a difference in the lives of the UK’s most vulnerable learners.
• Varied and interesting work: Therapy programmes, school consultations, and opportunities for report work.

Interested? Apply now or get in touch to discuss the work we have available.

About this role

A secondary school situated in Hackney is looking to appoint an innovative leader to join their talented senior leadership as Interim Assistant Headteacher/SENCo. The school is a vibrant, diverse and inclusive school at the heart of the local community in North Hackney. They strive to provide an inspirational learning journey for every student and have a culture rooted in high expectations for all, which cultivates a love of learning and ambition for success, together with a strong sense of belonging and civic duty. The school has a highly skilled staff body who are passionate about achieving the very best for all students.

Main purpose of the Role

• Effective leadership of the Inclusion team.
• Establishing and maintaining a unified purpose to the SEND provision across the whole school.
• Strategic oversight of the provision for students with a medical condition or additional need.
• The deployment of all Learning Support Assistants (LSA), Senior LSAs and HLTAs across the School.
• Maintaining and enhancing a culture that is both supportive and aspirational, ensuring barriers to learning are removed and the needs of SEND students are met, helping them to achieve.
• Ensuring the school meets the statutory provision according to the SEND Code of Practice (2015).
• Establishing highly effective working practices with staff, parents and students.
• Supporting leaders and teachers by setting challenging targets and developing clear improvement plans and systems, where the impact of actions can be shown.
• Using data to support, monitor, evaluate and enhance aspects of provision and support.
• Working with positivity, determination, optimism, humour, commitment and a relentless approach to fulfil our school improvement aims.

The successful candidate will demonstrate success in implementing and sustaining whole school initiatives and the line management of staff. Previous experience will include the leadership of a team, or equivalent, and the ability to support and challenge staff to ensure outstanding classroom practice. The successful candidate will present the best possible example of professional standards to colleagues and will have the NASENCo qualification.

About ASEND

There are over 2 million vulnerable young people in the UK with additional needs who face barriers in learning and development. ASEND was founded to help bridge that gap. For over 15 years, we’ve been building a leading network of SEND specialists who support children and young people with SEN/SEND ranging from SEMH needs, MLD, SLD and PMLD. This includes therapists and consultants who play a vital role in understanding need, shaping provision, and improving outcomes. We believe in child-centred, transformative support, and we’re looking for skilled professionals to help us deliver it. Join us and be part of something meaningful.

Applying

Interviews and conversations are being scheduled on a rolling basis. Apply now and start making a difference. We are keen to hear from candidates from all backgrounds. The UK’s vulnerable children are disproportionately from minority and LGBTQIA+ communities, as well as people with disabilities, refugees and migrants, and people living with mental health conditions. It is integral to our mission that our team reflects the experiences of the young people we support. We take Safer Recruitment seriously. All candidates must pass through our safer recruitment process to ensure their suitability to work with children and young people. Due to the number of applications we receive, we are unable to respond to every applicant. We aim to respond to all successful applicants within two weeks.