Class Teacher with Responsibility for SEND (SENDCo)
Heathfield Primary and Nursery School, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG5 1JU28 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
13 November 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
16 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Main or Upper Pay Scale
Additional allowances
+ SEND Allowance of £2787 to £5497 per year dependent on experience
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking to appoint a Class Teacher who:
- Is a committed, energetic, and creative classroom practitioner.
- Is a positive role model for children, parents, and colleagues at all times.
- Exemplifies the school’s vision and aims to support all pupils to ‘Thrive Together’.
- Can model and demonstrate high-quality teaching and interactions with pupils to support their progress, addressing misconceptions swiftly.
- Is a strong team player who enjoys collaboration across our two sites.
- Is willing to go the extra mile to ensure pupils experience rich, engaging, and inclusive learning.
- Has experience of leading or supporting children from a range of contexts and with diverse needs.
And a SENDCo who:
- Has achieved the National SENDCo Award or SEND NPQ, or is willing to undertake the SEND NPQ at the earliest opportunity.
- Demonstrates a secure understanding of the SEND Code of Practice and the graduated approach to supporting pupils with additional needs.
- Leads the day-to-day operation of SEND provision, ensuring robust systems for identification, assessment, and review across both campuses.
- Uses assessment and whole-school data to monitor the progress and attainment of pupils with SEND, supporting teachers in setting ambitious yet achievable targets.
- Provides professional guidance, support, and challenge to staff to ensure inclusive, high-quality teaching and effective use of resources.
- Builds strong partnerships with pupils, families, external agencies, and colleagues to provide coordinated support and care.
- Promotes early identification and timely intervention through effective provision mapping and the graduated response.
- Supports staff in developing adaptive teaching strategies and provision that enable all pupils to access the full curriculum.
- Contributes to the professional development of colleagues by leading training, sharing best practice, and modelling inclusive approaches.
- Keeps up to date with research, legislation, and best practice in SEND, ensuring this informs whole-school policy and classroom practice.
- Works collaboratively with the Deputy Headteacher for Inclusion to align SEND leadership with wider pastoral, safeguarding, and inclusion priorities.
What the school offers its staff
In return, the successful candidate will:
- Work with enthusiastic, friendly, and well-behaved children.
- Join a highly committed, talented, and open-minded staff team.
- Be supported by an experienced Deputy Headteacher for Inclusion and a proactive Governing Body.
- Receive coaching and mentoring, funded professional qualifications (including the SEND NPQ), and release time to attend local and Trust SEND networks.
- Be part of a school that places Knowledge, Nurture, and Enrichment at the heart of everything we do.
Further information about the job
Heathfield Primary and Nursery School are seeking to appoint a Class Teacher & Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENDCo) to work across our 3.5-form entry, split-site school in Basford and Bulwell.
The successful candidate will work under the leadership of our Deputy Headteacher for Inclusion, taking a lead role in ensuring the highest quality provision for pupils with Special Educational Needs across both our Scotland Road and Kersall Drive campuses.
We are a wholly inclusive school that prides ourselves on our motto of ‘Thriving Together’, supporting pupils with a wide range of educational needs. We achieved the SEND Inclusion Award (SENDIA) in 2024 and were praised for our inclusive provision in both our Ofsted inspection (December 2024) and pilot inspection (September 2025).
This role includes a 0.3 FTE classroom teaching commitment, with the remainder of the week for SEND leadership and PPA time.
Further Information
Visits to the school are warmly encouraged and can be arranged by contacting the school office. Closing date, shortlisting, and interview dates: To be confirmed.
How to Apply
Please complete the online application form and submit an additional covering letter (no more than two sides of A4, size 11 Arial font, standard margins). Your covering letter should directly address the following title:
‘How I, as a Teacher and SENDCo, will meet pupils’ needs and secure the best outcomes, through my teaching and whole-school influence, amid challenging budgets, rising needs, and reduced staffing.’
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
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Heathfield Primary and Nursery School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 719 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Heathfield Primary and Nursery School website
- Email address
- steve.whitehead@heathfield.nottingham.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 0115 9794304
Heathfield is a Nottingham City LA maintained school that works collaboratively as part of the Nottingham Schools Trust (NST). We are a thriving, two-campus primary school serving wonderfully diverse communities, with a shared vision for all pupils and staff to ‘Thrive Together’.
Arranging a visit to Heathfield Primary and Nursery School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email steve.whitehead@heathfield.nottingham.sch.uk.
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