Section Manager: Foundation Learning (SEND)
hace 14 días
London
Section Manager – Foundation Learning (SEND) Salary: £47,939 – £52,165 per annum (including London weighting)Hours: 36 hours per week, full yearLocation: North LondonContract: Permanent About the Role We are seeking an experienced and inspiring Section Manager - Foundation Learning (SEND) to lead curriculum delivery and staff within a specialist Foundation Learning provision. This is a key leadership role, combining strategic curriculum management with a hands-on teaching commitment, supporting learners with a wide range of learning difficulties and disabilities, including SLD, PMLD and SEND pathways up to Entry and Level 1. You will play a central role in ensuring high-quality provision, excellent learner outcomes, and a fully inclusive learning environment, while contributing to the continued development of SEND and supported employability programmes, including Supported Internships. Key Responsibilities • Lead, manage and develop Foundation Learning programmes, ensuring outstanding teaching, learning and assessment, • Teach across Foundation Learning provision (up to 17 hours per week during term time), • Manage and support teaching, support and agency staff, acting as a role model for inclusive practice, • Oversee curriculum planning, schemes of work, assessment schedules and awarding body requirements, • Drive recruitment, retention, achievement and progression of SEND learners, • Ensure implementation of employability, enrichment, SEND, Skills for Life and careers strategies, • Monitor quality, performance data and targets, leading on continuous improvement, • Support annual reviews for SEN learners and liaise with families, professionals and external agencies, • Contribute to business, curriculum development and resource planning You will be a passionate SEND professional with strong leadership experience and a commitment to inclusive education. You will bring: Essential • Degree-level qualification, • Level 5 teaching qualification recognised in the FE sector (e.g. PGCE, DET or equivalent), • SENCO or Level 5+ SEND qualification, • Proven experience teaching learners with SEND (minimum three years), • Strong knowledge of SEND Code of Practice and current FE SEND provision, • Experience of Functional Skills and RARPA, • Curriculum leadership or coordination experience, • Team leadership and staff management experience, • Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills, • Management qualification, • Experience of Supported Internships and employability pathways for SEND learners