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  • Closing date

    17 September 2026 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    20 August 2026

Job details

Job role

  • Assistant headteacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full time equivalent salary

Leadership Scale 12 - 16

Additional allowances

Leadership Scale 12 - 16

Assistant Headteacher - Inclusion (SENCO) job summary

SEND at Harlington has advanced significantly in recent years, and it remains an area where we are determined to go further. Our search here is an opportunity for the right candidate to flourish in their element, lead on institutional change and help enable better outcomes for our students across the school.

Where the role requires strategic oversight of Inclusion, it is also clear that this role will require someone with the knowledge, depth and experience to identify talent, create innovative change and deliver successful outcomes. All of this whilst ensuring they remain with a hands on understanding of SEND practice. We are therefore looking for someone with a proven track record, extensive SEND knowledge and a dedication to place our children at the heart of everything they do. The ideal candidate will have high expectations of what every pupil can achieve and will endeavour to support all staff to develop a more collegiate supportive response to inclusive practice.

Reporting to the Headteacher, and Deputy Headteachers as directed, this postholder will have stewardship over:

- LM of the KS3/Transition SENDCo & KS4/5 SENDCo

- SEND Department

- Alternative Curriculum Provision & Pathways

- Harlington Designated Unit for Autism

- Harlington Special Resource Provision

- Collaboration with the Deputy Headteacher and Assistant Headteacher for Teaching and Learning to support a quality first teaching approach to pedagogy

- The statutory role of Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO)

SEND at Harlington requires next stage thinking and planning and is a major priority for the School. For this reason, this post combines the statutory role of Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator with strategic leadership of the school's wider Inclusion provision. The postholder will be the qualified teacher designated as the school's SENCO under the Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014, enabling the right candidate to flourish in their SEND capacity whilst also overseeing key Inclusion areas around the school.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
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Commitment to safeguarding

Harlington School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All job offers are provisional until such time as the school has undertaken appropriate safeguarding checks and is satisfied that successful candidates are suitable to work with children and young people.

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About Harlington School

Organisation type
Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 19
Education phase
Secondary school
Size
1409 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 19
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Website
Harlington School website
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Harlington School: A caring, forward thinking professional learning community, that develops exceptional educators and kind hearted, hard-working and well-rounded young people, all with a passion for enquiry and scholarship.

Harlington School’s ambition is to offer its students the best possible educational opportunities. We are a mixed, non-selective school for students between 11 and 19 years old. We expect our students to leave Harlington School with the confidence and qualifications to enable them to move onto university or a career of their choice.

To do this we:
• Have high expectations of commitment to learning from students, staff and parents.
• Have high expectations of conduct.
• Provide a safe, caring environment where respect and for others are taught and valued.
• Provide high quality teaching.
• Provide a curriculum that meets the needs of all students, whatever their ability.
• Provide a range of extra-curricular activities.
• Provide regular, careful review and assessment of every student’s progress and needs and tailored support for each child.
• Involve parents in every aspect of their child’s education and emotional well-being whilst at school.

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