Assistant Principal – SENDCo (with other responsibilities)
Avanti Meadows Primary School, Bishop's Stortford, CM23 1FQ10 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
11 May 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
1 May 2026
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L1 - L7
What skills and experience we're looking for
Please note:This role commences in September 2026
About The Role
Avanti Meadows is seeking a committed and experienced Assistant Principal – SENDCo to join our senior leadership team. This is a significant leadership role with responsibility for shaping and driving inclusive practice across the school, ensuring that all students, particularly those with SEND, receive a high-quality and well-coordinated education.
You will lead on strategy, systems and provision, while maintaining a strong operational presence to ensure that support is effective, consistent and impactful.
Working closely with the Head of School and senior colleagues, you will have the opportunity to influence whole-school priorities, develop staff expertise and embed strong practice in classrooms. You will oversee identification, intervention and progress, ensuring that provision is both ambitious and responsive to students’ needs. This role offers real scope to refine and strengthen existing systems, build capacity within the team and drive measurable improvements in outcomes.
This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious and thoughtful leader who is looking to take the next step or further develop their impact at senior level, in a role where they can shape provision, lead people and make a lasting difference across the school.
School visits are welcomed and encouraged. Please contact the school to arrange a suitable time.
Interviews will be held on 19th May 2026
Avanti Meadows is a brand-new primary school in Bishop’s Stortford. Surrounded by fields and new housing estates, the school is a centre for the new community developing in the north of Bishop’s Stortford. The school is rated “good” with “outstanding” in personal development.
Avanti Meadows is a non-faith, community school that embraces inclusion and diversity. “From the very start, pupils develop the deep consideration for others, self-reflection and kind relationships that are at the heart of this school.” Avanti Meadows Ofsted Inspection Report, March 2024
Our school is a vibrant, exciting place to be that is open to big ideas and creativity, all with a genuine focus on pupil and staff wellbeing.
“Through our yoga sessions, children are learning to self-regulate, they are learning that they have the ability to control themselves, to try and calm themselves down and to be in the moment” - Sara Thompson, Yoga Teacher
Our staff are inspired and passionate about their roles, the vision of the school, and providing the most fulfilling learning experience for pupils. Learning is a quest to discover each student’s unique gifts and potential, and to lay the foundation for their lifelong journey of learning.
“We have the most amazing staff members; it’s really evident that the team are very close to one another, and there is a real synergy in their approach to children’s learning.” - Sally Allan, Executive Principal
What will you do?
- Provide strategic leadership as Assistant Principal and SENDCo, leading inclusive practice and ensuring high-quality provision and outcomes for students with SEND.
- Oversee identification, assessment, intervention and progress tracking for students with additional needs, working closely with staff, families and external agencies.
- Lead, develop and manage the SEND team, ensuring effective use of resources, strong staff practice and compliance with statutory requirements.
- Promote a culture of high expectations, inclusion and achievement, ensuring all students are supported to succeed academically and personally.
Further information
Pre-employment checks
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.
Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
Safeguarding Statement
Avanti Meadows is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
What the school offers its staff
Why should you apply
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.
You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:
- Great opportunities for professional development
- Teacher pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
- O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
- Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
- Cycle-to-work Scheme
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Avanti Meadows Primary School
- School type
- Free School, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 255 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Avanti Meadows Primary School website
- Email address
- talent@avanti.org.uk
This school will be the latest in the development of the Avanti Schools Trust who already have several highly successful schools in operation and I am very proud and honoured to have been appointed as the Executive Principal Designate for this new member to our family of schools.
Avanti Meadows Primary School will provide parents and pupils with the highest standards of education and pastoral care. We want our children to take pride in the new school and for every member of the school community to work hard to provide high quality education, care and support for every child and every family. We will set the highest expectations from the outset to ensure that we provide creative learning experiences which inspire and challenge our pupils to achieve the very best in all aspects of their learning.
Our curriculum will be based upon the National Curriculum and we will adopt a personalised approach in order to provide tailor- made learning paths for all pupils.
The site for Avanti Meadows will be a brand new building and the facilities will be bespoke, contemporary and first-class, which will make for a unique learning experience. We are working in partnership with Hertfordshire County Council to ensure that careful planning and preparation is in place to make Avanti Meadows a first-choice school for the children of Bishop’s Stortford North. This is a very exciting time for all of us as we see the new school develop towards the opening date of September 2021
Arranging a visit to Avanti Meadows Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email talent@avanti.org.uk.
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