Assistant Headteacher with responsibility for SEND & Inclusion

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Job Title: Assistant Headteacher with responsibility for SEND & Inclusion

Salary: Up to £53,000.00 per annum

Location: New Barn School, Newbury, Berkshire

Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Contract: Permanent, Term Time Only

UK applicants only.

As part of our continued growth, we now have a fantastic opportunity for an Assistant Headteacher – Personal Development to join our close-knit team at New Barn School, part of Acorn Education.

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking to appoint an Assistant Headteacher to lead on SEND and Inclusion.

The successful candidate will have experience of working with young people with a range of complex learning needs. You will be able to demonstrate a working understanding of how these needs impact upon learning and behaviour in the classroom. You may have specialist knowledge and experience of working with pupils with special educational needs such as Social, Emotional, Mental Health (SEMH). You will be expected to create a culture that enables all learners and staff to excel. You will understand principles of curriculum design and quality assurance processes and will be a driving force in further moulding our curriculum at New Barn School.

Key Responsibilities:

1. To assist the Headteacher in ensuring the achievement of the highest possible educational standards and attainment, through design and delivery of an outstanding, comprehensive and engaging personal development programme across the school.
2. This will be achieved through the strategic and operational leadership of the core areas of:
3. Careers and Work Experience
4. Enrichment, Trips and Visits
5. PSHE
6. Pupil Voice
7. Staff training on personal development
8. As a senior leader, modelling outstanding practice in the classroom is paramount to the role.
9. Visible leadership through school duties, behaviours support, stakeholder engagement.

We Are Looking For a Colleague Who:

1. Is positive and passionate about changing lives for the better.
2. Has a passion for delivering an excellent personal development provision to students.
3. Can motivate and coach staff to support them in pursuing outstanding practice.
4. Thinks creatively and looks for ways to engage learners of all levels.

About The School

New Barn School offers a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum to boys and girls, aged 6 – 19 years who have Social, Emotional and Mental Health complexities.

New Barn School takes full advantage of its beautiful settings and fosters a love for using the outdoor curriculum including forest school, farm experiences and horse riding. The School is within a commutable distance of Swindon, Oxford, Andover, Basingstoke and Reading and other surrounding towns and villages.

Our services offer a stable, secure and supportive environment, in which the pupils and young people we care for can develop the skills and confidence necessary to help them fulfil their potential.

Acorn Education is the UK’s leading independent provider of specialist education for vulnerable pupils. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.

We are really proud to say that in 2024, Outcomes First Group were officially certified as a ‘Great Place to Work’ for the fifth year running.

Why join Acorn Education?
Benefits
Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including:

1. Life Assurance
2. Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
3. “Your Wellbeing Matters” – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks.

And a Market-leading Benefit Offering Through Our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, Enables You To Choose The Package That’s Right For You, Including:

1. A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits.
2. 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad.
3. Cycle to Work Schemes.
4. Electric Car Purchase Scheme.
5. Critical illness cover.
6. Family Growth Support - inclusive benefits package covering enhanced maternity and paternity leave, along with paid fertility treatment support.

And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the pupils in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils. All applicants will be subject to social media checks and successful applicants to a fully enhanced DBS.