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  • Job start date

    26 August 2025

  • Closing date

    25 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    12 June 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Other support roles

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time: 37 hours per week, 30 minutes for lunch daily. Monday to Thursday 8am to 4:00pm Friday 8am to 3:30pm Plus, 3 professional learning days.

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

Grade 7 Points 19 – 22 (Actual Salary £30,496).

What skills and experience we're looking for

Job Ref: ASENDCO 25-26

Assistant SENDCO

Details: Permanent, Full Time, Term Time (38.6 weeks).

Start Date: August 2025

Salary: Grade 7 Points 19 – 22 (Actual Salary £30,496).

FTE £35,709 -£38,544

37 hours per week, 30 minutes for lunch daily.

Monday to Thursday 8am to 4:00pm

Friday 8am to 3:30pm Plus, 3 professional learning days.

We are looking to recruit an additional Assistant SENDCO to join our hugely successful SEND faculty.

We wish to appoint a dedicated and enthusiastic, self-motivated individual with an ability to deal positively and sympathetically with students, staff and parents. Knowledge and experience of working with students with SEND, delivering SEND interventions and working in a school SEND faculty are essential.

How to apply:

If you are interested in this post, please read the Applicant pack for instructions on how to apply.

Please see the documents listed below, which may assist you in making your application:

  • Job Description
  • Applicant Pack
  • Application and Recruitment Process document

NO AGENCIES OR CV’s PLEASE

Closing date: Thursday 25th June 2025 midday

Interviews: Thursday 3rd July 2025

TMET are an equal opportunities employer, committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

If we have not contacted you within 4 weeks of the closing date, you may assume that your application has been unsuccessful


What the school offers its staff

You will be working in an environment where:

  • strong, positive relationships are a strength of the school;
  • students of all ages and abilities readily demonstrate an eagerness to learn and make progress across the curriculum;
  • outstanding behaviour is apparent throughout the school; students are polite, open and articulate, making it a pleasure to engage with them in lessons;
  • SEND students are generally taught in mainstream lessons which allows them to thrive in a positive and productive learning environment;
  • the school’s progress 8 score is significantly above average at +1.0, and above average for SEND students, for two consecutive years, and is ranked in the top 5% nationally;
  • Professional Learning is a priority and time for this is integrated into the school day;
  • all students, teachers and parents share a common vision to "make a positive difference".

Successful applicants are subject to an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check and satisfactory employment references.

This post will involve contact with vulnerable groups (children, young people and/or adults) and is therefore, exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. This exemption means that shortlisted applicants for this post will be required to declare all criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands, and bind- overs both spent and unspent in their application, before interview and regardless of the passage of time.

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.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

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About Rushey Mead Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1744 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
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Arranging a visit to Rushey Mead Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email rmrecruitment@rushey-tmet.uk.

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