Senior SEND Practitioner

SEND Progression Lead - January Start

Location:

Harrow, West London

Pay: £206-£268 per day PAYE

Contract:

Full-Time | Long-Term

Start Date:

January

Your Experience Has Got You This Far. Where Could It Take You Next?

You've learned how to build relationships with young people.

You've developed strategies for difficult days, adapted your approach when something hasn't worked and discovered that progress rarely looks the same for two pupils.

Those are valuable skills.

Now you may be looking for an opportunity that allows you to develop them further and take the next step professionally.

A supportive education setting in Harrow is looking for an experienced SEND Progression Lead to join its team from January.

You'll play an important role in helping pupils overcome barriers to education while gaining broader experience that can support your own progression within SEND, pastoral support or education leadership.

• Autism (ASC)
• ADHD
• SEMH
• Learning Difficulties
• Communication Needs
• Sensory Needs
• Emotional Regulation Difficulties

Your role isn't simply to provide additional help.

It's to understand why a pupil is finding something difficult and help identify approaches that enable them to participate more successfully.

• Provide targeted individual and small-group support.
• Deliver and develop SEND interventions.
• Support pupils working towards EHCP and individual outcomes.
• Identify barriers affecting learning, engagement and participation.
• Adapt strategies around individual communication and learning needs.
• Support emotional regulation and positive behaviour.
• Help pupils develop greater confidence and independence.
• Monitor progress and recognise when an approach needs adapting.
• Contribute observations and ideas to pupil-support planning.
• Work closely with teachers, SEND staff and other professionals.
• Develop your understanding of inclusive and specialist practice.
• Take greater ownership of the support you provide.

Your next position should give you something you didn't have before.

That might be greater experience of EHCPs and personalised provision.

It could be delivering interventions, developing behaviour-support strategies or working more closely with a SENCO.

Perhaps you want greater exposure to SEMH, autism, pastoral support or complex learning needs.

This role is designed to give you practical experience you can build on.

SEND experience can open doors across education.

Depending on your interests and qualifications, your longer-term pathway could take you towards roles such as:

• HLTA
• Pastoral Lead
• Behaviour Lead
• Specialist Teacher
• SENCO
• SEND Management

You don't need to know exactly which route you want to follow yet.

What matters is that you're ambitious about developing your knowledge and want your next role to move you forward.

We're looking for someone with relevant experience supporting children or young people within education, SEND, alternative provision, pastoral support or a related setting.

• Has already developed a strong foundation of SEND experience.
• Wants greater responsibility and professional development.
• Can build positive relationships without losing professional boundaries.
• Remains consistent when young people are struggling.
• Thinks about what sits behind behaviour rather than simply reacting to it.
• Communicates confidently with colleagues and other professionals.
• Is comfortable contributing observations and ideas.
• Wants to keep learning and developing professionally.

An Enhanced DBS on the Update Service, or willingness to obtain one, will be required.

• £206-£268 per…