SEND Teaching Teams Manager

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Job Description

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: 37 hours per week, full time

Worker Type: Hybrid Worker

Salary: Starting Salary is L01/L11 £63,815 to L01/L14 £68,586

Location: Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3NG

We've got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you've been looking for?

Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.

In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.

About the Role

The SEND Teaching Teams Manager will manage the SEND Teaching Teams (Learning Support, Autism, Sensory & Physical, and Early Years SEND teams) to ensure effective leadership and high-quality outcomes for children and young people with SEND. This includes line managing team leaders, overseeing HLN funding, promoting evidence-based practices, and supporting the strategic direction of the service.

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

• Essential Qualifications: Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or equivalent teaching qualification.
• Essential Experience: Proven experience in managing and leading teams to improve educational outcomes for pupils with SEND.
• Essential Knowledge: Comprehensive understanding of SEND legislation, inclusive education, and curriculum adaptations.
• Essential Skills: Strong interpersonal and communication skills to engage with schools, agencies, and families, and the ability to use data to inform and improve service delivery.
• Desirable: SLT experience in a school setting

This post requires a DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity.

You can find the job description for this post here

Please attach CV and covering letter when you apply for this role.

At Nottingham City Council, we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.

For informal enquiries, please contact Mark Joshi, Head of SEND, by email at mark.joshi@nottinghamcity.gov.uk.

Closing Date: 20th January 2025

Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before

About Us

Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits.

In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:

• 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years' service) + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
• Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
• Smart Working - to support your work life balance
• Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!

Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference.

We particularly want to hear from you if you are from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic community, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community (LGBT) and if you are Disabled - these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we'd like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes.

We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process, should this be something you are interested in.