[senco-forum] Inclusion manager

Hello Julie
  I don't think you are being irrational at all.  If this happened to me, I would be throwing my toys out of the pram!!

  Do you have a line manager?  Is s/he any use?  I'd see the Head with another adult I trust and, in my case, it would be my line manager.  I certainly would not see the Head on my own.  I'd take in my job description and ask for an indication of what I was supposed to do next year.  
  I would also talk to my Governor for SEN to say that I was sure that the governors were aware of this division of the SEN role and I wanted to explain what I thought my new role was.

  Let me know how it all goes.  I think it sounds like a nightmare for you.

  Amanda
  Secondary SENCO
  Cornwall

J Bullivant <jbullivant at newent.gloucs.sch.uk> wrote:
  I came into work this morning on a real high for the first time in ages. That was until I saw the advert for the Inclusion Manager that school had placed on the noticeboard and in the local press. I have been pushing for years for an Inclusion Unit, but hey, I'm only the SENCo, why should anyone have the decency to tell me that we're getting one and that we are employing a manager to run it? Oh, and that a large proportion of what I do on a daily basis is being taken over by this new role and that I am to have no input at all. Do I feel threatened? Yes!! Especially as they have also taken my responsibility for assessments of special exam arrangements and given that to someone else as well. I am having a conversation with the Head later to try to ascertain how she sees my role in school now if she feels I still have a role that is.
Do they think I'm over worked? Maybe, but then why give me a tutorial in September?
Sorry, I know I'm probably being irrational, but I need to vent my spleen.
Julie
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Amanda
Secondary SENCO
Cornwall