STANMORE COLLEGE

JOB DESCRIPTION

POST:                                    SEND Curriculum Lead

((Permanent, Full time, through the year)

Stanmore College has a great opportunity for you to lead on our SEND provision for both young learners, aged 16-19, and adults. You will be responsible for Cross-College promotion, direction, and oversight through effective provision for learners with inclusion needs. This position will also include some additional teaching requirements.

The post holder will be an integral part of the College Leadership Team and they will support the Stanmore College vision and its direction, supporting and implementing strategies that drive forward the college SEND strategy.

REPORTS TO:                    Head of Faculty – Heath & Social Care, Early Years, SEND & Community

The post holder will be responsible for: 

1. Leading SEND teaching and learning across the college.
2. The line management of staff teaching on foundation programmes and the leadership, motivation, and development of the curriculum in line with that the aims and objectives of the college.
3. The operational management of the foundation curriculum ensuring high quality provision, broad and effective use of resources and is flexible to meet needs of all learners.
4. Leading the development of the post-16 curriculum pathways across the college for SEND learners ensuring the curriculum meets the needs of individual learners and is personalised to enable them to achieve ambitious outcomes based on preparation for employment and to live healthy adult lives.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

Curriculum:

1. To lead the development and delivery of an innovative and visionary curriculum, ensuring that the curriculum is effectively managed, developed, reviewed, and consistently improved.
2. To drive quality initiatives and ensure key performance indicators are met and consistently improved.
3. To identify, highlight and share good practice across the college.
4. To liaise with awarding bodies and other stakeholders to support effective delivery, enhance learner experience and maximise outcomes for learners that prepares them for work.
5. Effectively implement quality assurance and improvement processes, in line with both internal and external requirements.
6. Provide data that is accurate, complete, and timely and use data in a timely manner to monitor, evaluate and plan improvements.
7. Foster a culture of innovation, including embedding the use of new technologies, equality, and diversity within the curriculum.
8. Oversee all curriculum timetable management and implementation.
9. Manage the processes and operation of initial assessment and diagnostic assessment to ensure that learners are supported effectively and at appropriate levels.
10. The postholder may be required to teach up to 10 hours per week.

Leadership:

To be part of the:

1. Lead on the development and implementation of foundation programmes.
2. Provide effective management, leadership, and development to all staff through performance objectives, via the College Appraisal.
3. Identify resources needed to meet the needs of learners with SEND and other inclusion needs and advise.
4. Identify resources needed to meet the needs of learners with SEND and other inclusion needs and advise.

Inclusion:

1. Place the learners learning and success first, by ensuring the conduct and progress of all learners is in line college policies and procedures.
2. Monitor and act upon poor attendance, punctuality, and behaviour in line with the College processes and procedures.
3. Ensure learners are given equal opportunity to succeed and learn in a way that makes sense to them.
4. Ensure that all learners feel safe, valued and supported in a way that makes sense to them and they are treated with respect, dignity and equality at all times.
5. Ensure full implementation of Health and Safety Policies and Procedures including ensuring all reasonably required risk assessments are in place, understood by staff and regularly reviewed.
6. To ensure that foundation programmes offered meet the individual needs of learners

General Accountabilities:

• To safeguard and promote the welfare of all young people by being familiar with an aware of the Safeguarding and protection issues, procedures and guidelines and to adhere to them at all times.
• To bring to the attention of your line manager any matter of concern over the wellbeing, safety of safeguarding of a young person.
• To comply with Health and Safety policies and be aware of your responsibilities in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act.
• To be responsible for your own personal and professional development, undertaking learning and development activities including attending role specific training as required.
• To attend and participate in staff meetings, individual formal supervisions, appraisals, staff debriefings to ensure consistency and good practice.
• To undertake any other reasonable tasks as are required at the discretion of your line manager. 
• Willing to be first aider.

The postholder can be required to carry out any other duties consistent with the grade of the post, at any site on which the college may operate.

This job description is current at the date shown below.  In consultation with the postholder, it is liable to variation by management within a reasonable timescale to reflect or anticipate changes in or to the job.

Salary Scale: £31,984 - £42,059 per annum (F/T salary)

SEN allowance £2,539-£5,009

Closing date for applications is Sunday, 19th August 2024.

Interviews will be held on Thursday, 29th August 2024.

Application form and further details of the post available from the Stanmore College website following the link: https://recruitment.stanmore.ac.uk/Vacancies.aspx