SPECIAL EDUCATION NEEDS COORDINATOR

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Take a strategic overview of all forms of support designed to ensure pupils with special educational needs (SEN) achieve success
• Ensure that the needs of all pupils with SEN are met and that they are supported to make good progress
• Offer practical support and advice to class-teachers, enabling them to offer high quality provision to SEN pupils
• Offer support and advice to learning support assistants, enabling them to offer high quality provision to statemented pupils
• Coordinate the school’s responsibilities during the statutory assessment process, with a view to ensuring that pupils with a high level of need obtain an educational statement
• Support and advise the parents of pupils on the SEN Register, and particularly those parents whose children have an educational statement

• Maintaining the Special Educational Needs Register and keeping precise data on pupils with Special Educational Needs
• Ensuring that information required for statutory assessments is completed to a high standard
• Liaising with staff, external agencies and other organisations with a view to obtaining quality advice and support that will enable staff at the school to offer quality provision to pupils with special educational needs
• Coordinating the organisation of Individual Education Plans and meeting with teachers and support staff each term to establish targets and review progress
• Organising and implementing Annual Reviews for all pupils with educational statements
• Working alongside the Principal to maintain and monitor high quality intervention programmes to assist lower performing pupils to meet the national performance standard for their age
• Supporting the professional development of staff by delivering continuing professional development sessions on aspects of special educational needs
• Teaching individuals and small groups of pupils with SEN who require very specific, targeted additional provision and ensuring they achieve success

Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s Degree of Education

• Minimum of 2 years SENco experience in a school

• Applicants are required to hold a subject related degree

• Must have experience of teaching in a UK/US school (in the UK/US)

• Native English speaker

• Ideally have a good understanding of the UK/US Curriculum

• Demonstrated ability to work well in fast paced environment

• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written

• Capable of establishing positive and productive working relationships with teachers and students

About the Company
Education 1st was first established with an aim to provide exceptional teaching staff in schools. The company was founded by the CEO, Zen Kahn, a committed educationalist in both the UK and Middle East, working as a Senior Leader in schools, she identified the need to set up a professional and personalised educational recruitment company which aims specifically at providing ambitious teachers and leaders to the right type of school.

Education has changed over time and schools are of differing types, sizes and have their own organisational culture which identifies their core purposes, any candidate applying for a school must have the appropriate skills set, personality and attributes for that particular type of school. This idea will alleviate the transient nature of staffing, improve staff morale, help provide a better sustainable school improvement and ultimately improve the level of education of students in the schools that we work with.

Education 1st operates from a number of countries, our consultants in the UK, USA, Canada, UAE and Australia will work closely with candidates with an aim to support them during their application process. Having our team strategically placed in countries where most of our candidates will be sourced allows us to ensure we understand the calibre of our candidates, we are then able to provide specialist advice to ensure they are recommended to the school which requires such a candidate. Our passion and enthusiasm for what we do, coupled with our ability to respond and adapt swiftly to clients’ makes us a cut above.