Assistant Headteacher: SEND, Nurture & Inclusion
Little Heaton Church of England Primary School, Manchester, M24 4PU7 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
1 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
31 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership Range 1-4 (£49,781-£53,602)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Assistant Headteacher: SEND, Nurture & Inclusion
Leadership Range 1-4 (£49,781- £53,602)
Start Date: 1 September 2025
We’re looking for an Assistant Headteacher who will lead our inclusion agenda as SENDCO. We want to bring someone in who really cares about children and deals with them and their families sensitively, whilst championing their needs proactively and efficiently. You’ll be someone who makes sure every child’s experience here is supported by all the right people, in all the right ways.
You’ll be:
- A SENDCo with experience in a Primary or specialist provision setting. (Experienced in SEND and inclusion, with the ability to lead this area confidently across the school.)
- NPQ SEND or NASEN qualified or committed to gaining the qualification.
- Strategic – able to oversee the EHCP cycle, lead on early identification, and ensure no child slips through the net.
- Passionate about nurture – you’ll take the lead in developing our newly forming nurture provision and re-integration strategies for children who need a different route back to learning.
- Skilled in SEMH support, with the knowledge and empathy to develop programmes of intervention, signpost support and work closely with external professionals.
- Calm, fair and emotionally intelligent, with high expectations for behaviour and a toolkit of strategies to help embed consistency and compassion across the school.
- A team player who enjoys working with others and can inspire and support colleagues to develop and improve practice.
- Someone who values all people equally and enjoys dedicating your professional energies to making sure all children make progress and feel good about themselves.
Most of all, you’ll be someone who wants to make a difference – someone who’s ready to get stuck in, bring their ideas to the table and help lead real change. You’ll be a vital part of our new leadership team – and we will look to you to shape the vision for inclusion, nurture and SEND across the school.
In return, we offer:
- A chance to be part of a new and ambitious SLT, shaping the future of Little Heaton from the ground up.
- Brilliant children who are ready for a fresh start and need the right adults around them.
- A supportive team and a warm, welcoming school community.
- The opportunity to lead and grow a provision with real impact.
- Opportunities for professional development in a growing Trust
- Teachers career average pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.
If this sounds like the kind of opportunity you’ve been waiting for, we’d love to hear from you.
What the school offers its staff
Working for Little Heaton means that you would be part of the Cranmer Education Trust, a successful, growing Trust which prides itself on looking after its people, offering a high level of support and access to expertise. This is an excellent time to join the team, as we develop collaborative structures and systems to enhance and support our growing family of schools.
Alongside Little Heaton, the Trust is made up of primary and secondary schools across Oldham and Rochdale. The Trust also incorporates a teacher training school and the East Manchester Teaching Hub and a MFL hub, which support the training and development of new and existing teachers across the North West of England. For further details please visit https://careers.cranmereducationtrust.com/.
We offer:
- A competitive salary.
- Membership of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme.
- Generous leave entitlement.
- A professional working environment and the support facilities and resources of the Cranmer Education Trust and its family of Primary and Secondary Schools, which are very accessible, both electronically and in person.
- Free parking on site.
Visits to the school are warmly encouraged – come and see for yourself what makes our school special and hear more about the exciting journey ahead.
We can’t wait to meet the right person to join us in this important role.
Further details about the role
Little Heaton is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The Cranmer Education Trust follows safer recruitment practices. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020 and appointment is therefore subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service.
For further information please refer to:
- the Cranmer Education Trust’s Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy Trust Policies | Cranmer Education Trust
- The Trust’s statement on the employment of ex-offenders, in the vacancy Documents section.
- The job description and person specification for further information regarding the safeguarding responsibilities of the role.
Follow the link Cranmer Education Trust - Careers site to apply for this vacancy.
Please note CVs are not accepted.
Closing date for applications: Thursday 1 May at 9am
Interviews: Week beginning 5 May 2025
Start Date: 1 September 2025
The Cranmer Education Trust is an equal opportunities employer and will provide reasonable support to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Little Heaton Church of England Primary School
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- Up to 210 pupils
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- jjastrzebski@cranmeredt.org
- Phone number
- 0161 672 0555
Arranging a visit to Little Heaton Church of England Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jjastrzebski@cranmeredt.org.
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