SEMH Lead - Sacred Heart Primary School

Overview

If you are a SEMH Lead Practitioner who has the passion, drive and experience that ensures the best outcomes for our children, our school might be the place for you.

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Sacred Heart Primary School for an SEMH Lead Professional. We are seeking a highly skilled, motivated and experienced person to join us.

Sacred Heart Primary School is a two form-entry primary school in Tipton for children from 3 to 11 years of age.

Our vision is to develop young people who will have active and creative minds, a sense of understanding and compassion for others, and the courage to act on their beliefs. We stress the total development of each child: spiritual, moral, intellectual, social, emotional, cultural and physical. We are a richly diverse community, and pride ourselves on our highly inclusive practice, endorsed by achieving the Sandwell Inclusion Quality Mark for the second time at the highest level (Enhanced level).

The Governors at Sacred Heart Primary School are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated SEMH Lead.

• Have high expectations and a positive outlook
• Have experience of leading an SEMH Hub
• To complement the professional work of teachers by taking responsibility for agreed learning activities under an agreed system of supervision. This may involve planning, preparing and delivering learning activities for individuals/groups or short term for whole classes and monitoring pupils and assessing, recording and reporting on pupil’s achievement, progress and development.
• Responsible for the management and development of a specialist area within the school and/or management of other teaching assistants including allocation and monitoring of work, appraisal and training.
• Assess the needs of pupils and use detailed knowledge and specialist skills to support pupil’s learning
• Establish productive working relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and setting high expectations
• Develop and implement interventions according to Pupil Passports/EHCPs and Learning Plans
• Such other duties as may be appropriate to achieve the objectives of the post.
• Take the initiative as appropriate to develop multi agency approaches to supporting children
• Recognise own strengths and areas of specialist expertise and use these to lead, advise and support others.
• Manage other teaching assistants. Liaise with Managers/SENDCo/teaching staff and teaching assistants
• Hold regular team meetings with managed staff/inclusion Manager and SENDCo
• Other duties which may be appropriate to achieve the objectives of the post.
• Be an enthusiastic person with a passion for working with children
• Be someone who can engage and enthuse pupils in learning at all times
• Be someone who can focus on maximising progress
• Be someone who will support the aims and ethos of our school
• Experience of working in a primary school and can work as part of a team and independently

• Wonderful children
• Supportive Community
• Competitive salary
• Pension Scheme
• Excellent professional development opportunities
• Regular support and supervision
• Staff support (Mental Health First Aid, Occupational Health Service, Employee Assistance Programme with access for your whole family, Staff Briefings and events).
• A supportive and friendly team environment
• A school that prides itself on providing professional development opportunities
• A wide range of fantastic resources

Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable groups including children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS clearance, safeguarding checks and satisfactory references are therefore required for this role. Pre-employment checks will be carried out in line with KCSIE.

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak English is an essential requirement for this role.

Sacred Heart Primary School always welcomes visits. Tours of the School are encouraged and can be made via appointment through contacting Mrs Elwart - Office Manager. To arrange an appointment:
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