Your Name

Maintain an allocated caseload of schools and provide advice and support to them

Promote improved outcomes for children and young people across Lambeth

Observe children at school and provide reports and advice as necessary

Offer informal mediation between schools and families

Deliver training for school staff

Conduct SEND reviews and provide detailed verbal and written feedback

Coordinate and deliver regular Area SENco meetings

Provide training and drop-in sessions to colleagues from other LA directories

Facilitated regular SENco surgeries to address specific concerns of schools

Deliver parent information sessions/workshops

Collect, collate and distribute data ahead of borough-wide Y6-7 transition event

Participate in LA Assessment Panel meetings and other LA panel meetings

Liaise with other key professionals including SEMH, LAAS, DSCO SEND and DCO SEND

Collaborate with the EHC coordinators

Contribute to strategic planning related to SEND C YP in the borough

Monitor the impact of ENG funding across the borough

Produce SENco toolkit and OAP guidance

• Responsible for the day to day operation of the school’s SEN & Inclusion Policy to ensure that children with Special Educational Needs are fully included across the setting.
• Apply the SEN CoP in my work across the school and ensure that statutory procedures are adhered to.
• Work with SEN governor to ensure policy/practice within school has the SEN CoP at their cores.
• Strong working knowledge of the statutory assessment process;work with colleagues – in school and external (SALT, EP, LASS, LVSS, LHSS, playtherapy, CENMAC) to:

- apply for EHCPs

- provide advice as part of the statutory assessment process

- organise and chair AR meetings in keeping with statutory timeframes.

- facilitate the assess, do, review cycle for students at school

- support teachers to set, share and review SMART targets

- liaise with colleagues at Lambeth SEN to address complications, requests and placements

- respond to consultations from the LA in line with the legal framework

- support families with SENDIST appeals

- support YP and families with transition to new/specialist settings

Have led and have effected change within schools:

• Collaborated in the development and implementation of the School Improvement Plan and school policies, including the production, implementation, and review of the SEN Action Plan.
• Delivered staff training sessions about how to ensure appropriate adaptations can be made to support students as part of the school’s Curriculum development.
• Overseen and supported colleagues with the implementation of various Government strategies and the 2014 Curriculum,
• Organised and facilitated regular Family Learning opportunities to support targeted children in KS1 and 2.
• Plan, organise and deliver INSET for the whole staff on a regular basis
• Manage a significant budget
• Interview, recruit and appraise staff and facilitate regular training to ensure their ongoing professional development
• Collaborate with colleagues to ensure early identification of SEN and that early intervention programmes are targeted correctly and delivered effectively.

• I have experience of teaching across KS1 and KS2
• Developed engaging lessons tailored to diverse student needs and abilities, ensuring alignment with national curriculum.
• I collaborated closely with colleagues to plan lessons, school events and projects.
• Communicated effectively with parents about student progress and behaviour, fostering strong home-school partnerships.
• I led Maths in posts in several schools and was responsible for the implementation of National Strategies and CPD opportunities for staff
• I developed and implemented a successful Family Learning Programme whilst at John Burns School in Wandsworth.
• I monitored the quality of learning and teaching and children’s achievements
• I supported student teachers and newly qualified teachers
• I assessed, recorded and reported on the attainment and progress on a regular basis
• I have experienced several OFSTED inspections; my own teaching has always been judged to be good or outstanding and whilst at John Burns, was part of the team that achieved an outstanding overall judgement.

Improved inclusion for refugee and asylum-seeking students and families across a group of primary and secondary schools.

I delivered INSET to teachers and Head teachers from across the borough

I developed and distributed materials, available in several languages, to promote the inclusion of new arrivals

I worked with families to support access to services as well as language learning and the development of social networks

I supported young people in schools with their learning

I worked closely with colleagues in the Inclusion team and therapists to develop inclusion policies, materials and action plans