SEND Inclusion Facilitator

Job Description

You will support the development of a group of Reception and KS1 pupils who join the Flourish campus at Bungay. These pupils will be placed due to their special educational needs via the local authority panels. You will work with individuals, teach small groups and sometimes the class and contribute to create a nurturing environment. You will contribute to next step planning, ensuring outcomes of Pupil Profiles (IEPs) and EHCPs are met and that children progress. You will hold a belief that there are no limits to learning and commit to ensuring that every young person achieves their potential.

Responsibilities include:

• Support the teacher in creating a nurturing, communication rich environment whereby both staff and pupils flourish

• Embed an ethos of aspiration, high expectation, low threat whereby staff model expectation through positive interactions with pupils and their families

• Model excellent communication and interaction with pupils and their families and positive behaviour management strategies; ensuring behaviour expectations are understood by all

• Deliver interventions, make observations and contribute to next step planning

• Supporting children in fulfilling their academic potential but recognise that school is about much more than that

• Engaging children in their learning by being enthusiastic and approachable

• Work closely with families and carers; building positive and effective relationships that support pupils to feel safe, secure and make progress

• To support the pupils in the development of skills, e.g. managing emotions and behaviour, speech, motor-control, communication, sensory regulation, basic skills such as vocabulary, reading, writing, spelling and mathematics by encouraging concentration, communication, sharing and other social skills

• To closely monitor the way in which the children are managing the school environment/the demands of the school day and make adjustments as appropriate to accommodate the children’s needs

• To assist with children at the beginning and end of the day and in the playground as required and to have an awareness of and adherence to all school safeguarding procedures and participate in training as appropriate

  ASSET Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

  The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the job description and will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and children's barred list check, health check, online search and satisfactory references. Copies of our safeguarding and safer recruitment policies are available on request.