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Meridian Business Support
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB21NT, England
£44,409 per annum
Full Time
Retirement Plan
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Sonic Summary
- Meridian Business Support is seeking an Assistant Head of Department (Inclusion) for their FE client in Cambridge, with positions available in Cambridge, Huntingdon, and across both campuses.
- These full-time roles require 37 hours of work per week, Monday to Friday, and offer a salary of £44,409 per year.
- The successful candidate will collaborate with the Head of Department and other staff to ensure effective coordination of practical and theoretical activities, focusing on inclusion and support for students with SEND and High Needs.
- Candidates should possess extensive relevant experience in a specialist SEND department or college, with a strong understanding of special educational needs and a commitment to fostering inclusivity.
- The role also emphasizes leadership qualities and the ability to manage staff wellbeing, with a focus on developing personalized curricula and ensuring high levels of achievement for all students.
These are full time positions working37 hours per week, Monday to Friday with a salary of 44,409 per year.
The colleges haveoutstanding teaching and leisure facilities and a reputation for excellence in several fields.
In addition, they value their staff as they understand that they make the difference in transforming lives, and this investment in staff has been formally recognised by being accredited withInvestors in People Gold status.
Benefits
- Generous Holiday entitlement plus8 days bank holidays plus Christmas closure
- Generous pension scheme
- Free gym membership option and discounted classes
- Discounted rates on college courses
- BUPA Health Expenses cash plan and Occupational Health services
- Free annual flu vaccination and Corporate Eye Care Scheme
- Free on-site car parking with EV charging spaces available
- Exclusive discounts for high street and online stores
- On site subsidised restaurants, retail and coffee outlets including Costa and Starbucks
- Free independent telephone counselling service with our Employee Assistant Programme
- Staff Development opportunities.
- Discounted or fully funded rates on college course.
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About the role:
You will collaborate with the Head of Department and other Assistant Heads of Departments across the organisation, plus lecturers and Technicians to ensure the day to day practical and theoretical activities are co-ordinated appropriately. The role will involve working with teams to embed equality and diversity, inclusion practices and to ensure that students with SEND and High Needs are provided with a clear and ambitious personalised curriculum embedding English and Maths within vocational learning and across the Supported Learning Department. The role ensures that staffing, to support all students achieve on their programme, and daily timetables of learning support are maximised to support high and excellent levels of achievement and attainment for students. You will be accountable for implementing high levels of personalised curricula for students with High Needs with ambitious and stretching outcomes and to be accountable for the use of all college systems linked to learning support. In addition to this you will champion inclusivity within the department, through effective mentoring with colleagues and model excellent inclusive practice in the classroom/workspace setting for all learning support. Your management style will create and develop a collaborative approach to planning, preparation and adaptation of resources and learning support mentors to ensure that all students reach their full potential in every learning environment including students with high needs.
All about you:
You will be confident about your leadership qualities and ready for a new challenge to join the Supported Learning leadership team. You will have a high-level understanding of special educational needs, enjoy working with students, next of kin, other professionals and stakeholders. You will have a high level of pedagogic practice, and be able to lead and inspire others around inclusion, supporting students with high needs and understanding the importance of evidence required for audits around the learner journey.
You will have experience of developing curriculum opportunities within the department and working with other stakeholders to support the SEND agenda atthe College. You will also have experience of internal quality assurance for accredited and non-accredited programmes and work closely with internal college teams, such as exams, student records, MIS to ensure that all student records are up to date and accurate for all parts of the learning journey.
You will have extensive relevant experience of working in a discrete or specialist SEND department in a college or a school, with post 16 experience. You will also have a strong relationship approach to management, including the use of HR policies, procedures and managing the wellbeing of staff to engage teams with high levels of staff satisfaction. With your delivery experience, you will have extensive ability to implement and advise of putting in place reasonable adjustments to promote inclusion and access to the curriculum.
Meridian Business Support is an employment agency acting on behalf of our client for this vacancy.
