Assistant Head Teacher - SEND Leader

Wyndcliffe Primary School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B9 5BG

20 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025 or earlier

• Closing date

  5 May 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  11 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £57,831.00 - £63,815.00 Annually (Actual)

Assistant Head Teacher - SEND Leader job summary

As Assistant Head Teacher – SEND Leader, you will:

Lead and strategically develop SEND provision, ensuring high-quality teaching, learning, and pastoral care for all pupils with additional needs.

Oversee the Resource Base (RB), ensuring that pupils with ASC receive specialist support and an inclusive, aspirational curriculum.

Be the school’s SENCO, leading on EHCP processes, intervention strategies, and multi-agency working with external specialists such as Speech and Language Therapists and Educational Psychologist.

Provide high-quality training and professional development for staff on inclusive teaching strategies and SEND best practice.

Be a key member of the Senior Leadership Team, contributing to whole-school improvement and safeguarding as a Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL).

Work closely with parents and carers, fostering strong relationships to support pupil progress and well-being.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Wyndcliffe Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 589 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Wyndcliffe Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wyndcliffe-primary-school

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