Location:

Remote, with 2 days at Head Office in Staplefield every other month (dates are predetermined)

Working pattern:

52 weeks, full-time 37.5hrs (during office hours 8am-6pm, Mon-Fri)

Responsible to:

The post holder will be responsible to the Pathway Leads.

Salary:

Between £38,000 – £43,000 depending on experience.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Management:

• Oversee a caseload of students with a range of SEN needs; ensuring associates working within your teams are trained in the SENSE Learning approach to ensure high-quality provisions at all times.
• Oversee the Specialist Teachers and Education Mentors who work directly with the students on your caseload, supporting them in ways that ensure the delivery of sessions is always of a high quality.
• Supporting the team in developing and implementing strategies that help the student reach their full potential, including personalised strategies within our Universal Offer such as behaviour, sensory needs, emotional regulation, and creative curriculum implementation.
• Identify training needs in our associate team and lead training sessions on this where appropriate.
• Meet your teams online regularly, ensuring concerns and issues are picked up quickly and that all team members are meeting the expectations of the role including; ensuring the next steps, plans, targets and overall aims are clear for the student whilst at SENse Learning and onwards.
• Monitor absence, lateness, and any other associate-related issues, liaising with HR and the Pathway Lead around any concerns that impact the student’s quality of provision.

Planning, monitoring, and tracking the quality and impact of sessions:

• Manage the whole student’s provision, ensuring their education and SENse Learning sessions are supporting them to make good progress and meeting their needs this includes qualifications.
• Plan high-quality, creative and interest-based sessions to be delivered by Education Mentors and support our Specialist Teachers to plan the same level of quality.
• Plan sessions linked to targets that ensure progress in both our WILL (holistic) Curriculum as well as the academic curriculum (Primary and/or Functional Skills curriculums to Level 2).
• Track and monitor the progress of students, ensuring they are baselined at the start of their provision and then have suitable targets set that are monitored each half term on our monitoring and tracking documents and systems.
• Order resources for your students and teams to be used in sessions, that are linked to their targets and ensure their budget is used efficiently.
• Working with therapy teams to deliver activities which meet children and young people’s communication, social, sensory, physical, emotional, and behavioural needs.
• Develop transition plans for your student when they are moving onto their next provision to ensure this process is successful.

Communication with internal and external stakeholders:

• Liaising with the parent/carers, schools and other professionals involved in the young person’s care, ensuring joined up working and advocating for their needs.
• Communicate at least weekly with key people such as parents/carers, on-roll schools and social workers.
• Developing strong professional relationships with young people and their families, who have complex needs and have often experienced significant difficulties in previous education settings.
• Writing reports that capture the student’s progress and next steps each half-term.
• Attend and write reports for the student’s Annual Reviews.
• Weekly updates and overviews sent to the Pathway Lead.
• Liaising with the wider Head Office team to ensure they have the information needed about your students to complete their tasks, working together to update systems and processes to ensure the best possible workflow and offer for our students.
• Manage the WhatsApp groups related to your students, ensuring they’re used appropriately and within working hours.
• Support at INSET and company-wide events.

Managing all aspects of the provision:

• Be responsible for and manage all aspects of the student’s bespoke educational programme.
• Keep safeguarding at the forefront of your practice, liaising with the DSLs and directing the delivery team to action safeguarding concerns as instructed by the Safeguarding Team.
• Ensuring student information and details are kept up to date on our systems including Learntrek, Salesforce and in G-Drive folders.
• Write and keep up to date a risk assessment for students and their session activities including any trips out of the home.
• Ensure weekly, monthly, termly and ad-hoc documents and spreadsheets are updated including all processes and forms that need to be completed as part of the student’s provision oversight.
• Ensure new students are set up on all our systems, and the direct delivery teams have everything they need to start the new sessions.
• Complete the end of the placement process when a student leaves SENse Learning.
• 50% minimum of annual leave to be taken out of term time.

The duties and responsibilities are difficult to define in detail and may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the duties or level of responsibilities entailed. The post-holder is therefore expected to undertake such other duties as may be requested provided the general character of the duties or level of responsibility does not change. Such variations cannot in themselves justify a reconsideration of the grading of the post.

Due to the nature of this position, any offer of employment will be subject to a satisfactory checking report from the Disclosure and Barring Service at an enhanced level as well as receipt of, at least, two recent satisfactory professional references.

This role closes on the 28th of April with interviews being held virtually W/C 4th of May.