Assistant Headteacher- Diversity and Inclusion and SENDCo
Chelwood Nursery School, London, SE4 2QQ11 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
14 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
2 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership L2-L6
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you:
- an enthusiastic and experienced EYFS teacher,
- committed to providing high quality, inclusive Early Years Education,
- dedicated to promoting children’s learning through play,
- passionate about working together with families and other professionals to achieve the best outcomes for all children,
- able to see ‘the bigger picture’ and take a strategic lead alongside the Headteacher in the development of Chelwood Nursery,
- a trained SENDCo or willing to do the SENDCo training,
- motivated to develop professionally?
Would you like to join our ‘Outstanding’ Early Years team at Chelwood Nursery School?
What the school offers its staff
About our Nursery School
At Chelwood we believe that children come first. We have been at the heart of our local community for over 85 years, offering outstanding early years education with a focus on the outdoors. Our aim is for our school to feel like a family.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and well organised Assistant Headteacher to lead on Diversity and Inclusion and to be a part of our friendly, supportive and welcoming team.
We have an extremely talented and committed staff team and a strong tradition of child-centered, open-air education. Chelwood Nursery School is truly inclusive, reaching out to local families and developing our expertise in provision for children with special educational needs and disabilities.
We are very proud of our friendly and diverse community of children, families, staff and governors. We are equally proud of our determination to continuously develop research informed, innovative practice.
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to admin@chelwood.lewisham.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Chelwood Nursery School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 2 to 5
- Education phase
- Nursery
- School size
- 140 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 5
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Chelwood Nursery School website
- Email address
- admin@chelwood.lewisham.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 020 7639 2514
Our Core Values
*Children come first
*Start with the developmental needs of the child
*Listen and respond to the many unique voices of each child
*Nurture the family to nurture the child
*Value play inside and in the ‘open air’
*Value and celebrate every individual
*Research-led early childhood practice
*Work in partnership to develop ourselves and others
*Develop confident, caring, independent children
*Challenge inequality, promote social mobility and safeguard the vulnerable.
In doing this we aim to:
*Provide an education of excellent quality, which raises the level of achievement in all children in our school within a happy, welcoming, relaxed and stimulating atmosphere.
*Create a learning environment which encourages a high degree of independence and autonomy in all the children, so that they can organise their own time and take responsibility for their own learning.
*Ensure a broad and balanced curriculum which focuses on developing the whole child and incorporates meeting the physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, social, linguistic, cultural and cognitive needs of each individual child.
*Value, respect and celebrate the rich mix of social and cultural backgrounds from which our children come and ensure that all the staff rigorously implement Lewisham’s Equality Policies regarding race, gender, religion, sexuality, disability, class and special educational needs.
*Enable equality of access to the curriculum for all our children with opportunities to make good progress in their development and learning.
*Work closely together with parents and carers in order to form a true working partnership, and thus share the important developments in these crucial early years of education.
*Support and encourage parents and carers in taking a full and active role in their children’s learning and in all aspects of school life. Strengthening home/school links and consolidating our ethos of partnership in order to raise achievement in all our children.
Arranging a visit to Chelwood Nursery School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email admin@chelwood.lewisham.sch.uk.
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