Associate Assistant Headteacher Inclusion: SENDCO

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Glossopdale School & Sixth Form. Our school is an oversubscribed 11-18comprehensive secondary school which serves the Glossop and wider community. Weare a warm and caring school that has the highest expectations of students and ourselves, where every student is expected to work hard, behave well and contribute positively to the school community.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for our school to recruit an enthusiastic and conscientious SENDCO to lead our SEND Team, building on the excellent work thatis already in place and championing our SEND students. We are looking toappoint an ambitious, experienced and dynamic leader who is hardworking and energetic to join our growing Leadership Team in this role. You will need tohave expertise in the key fields of inclusion and working with students with additional needs.

A proven track recordin raising the achievement of all students will be essential.

Weexist to empower our students to find their purpose, develop high aspiration sand thrive, both academically and personally. We provide a knowledge-richcurriculum which exposes students to powerful knowledge, places them on an ambitious pathway and develops the character traits needed as young people andinto adulthood. Our core purpose is not merely finite 'success' for our students,but our culture and curriculum enable them to thrive - to continually grow and flourish.

Weare explicit about the culture we want to create and have clear ideas of the desired behaviours necessary for our students to succeed. At Glossopdale School& Sixth Form, we maintain a relentless focus on the day-to-day actions,behaviours and routines within the school and adopt a disciplined approach to teaching students effective learning habits. We communicate and practise theseregularly, as both staff and students.

While with us, we encourage every member ofstaff to stretch themselves and we give everyone access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities. We are a research-based school with theaim to develop highly effective evidence-based practices including teaching,learning and assessment, where we collaborate as a whole staff to persistentlyimprove our pedagogy and where we evaluate our practice habitually.

We have some of the best facilities in thearea having fully rebuilt our school in 2018. This not only provides both staffand students with everything they can expect for modern teaching and learningbut also gives us exceptional environmental credentials.

I amextremely proud to be the Headteacher of Glossopdale School & Sixth Formand consider it a privilege to be a part of such a vibrant and caring learning community. If you think this sounds like your sort of school, then we very muchlook forward to receiving your application to join us.

Please see attached job pack for more information.