Deputy SENDI lead - Part Time Maternity Cover
Trinity Catholic High School, Woodford Green, Essex, IG8 0TP2 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
31 October 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
8 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Part time: 0.6 FTE
Contract type
- Fixed term - 1 year - Maternity or parental leave cover
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS/UPS + Outer London Pay £36,414-£53,994 FTE
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Role
We are seeking to appoint a part time Deputy SENDI Lead to join our growing SEND department, covering a maternity leave for at least one year. This role is ideal for a talented and committed SEND teacher looking to take the next step in their career, or for an experienced Deputy SENDI Lead seeking a new challenge. The successful candidate will be keen to take on leadership responsibilities, including training to manage a SEND team. We are looking for an outstanding and confident classroom practitioner who consistently demonstrates the highest standards of teaching and has a strong passion for supporting students with special educational needs.
We are seeking a professional who:
1.Has experience of teaching of students with SEND and can demonstrate an ability to raise student achievement. An excellent classroom practitioner with a drive for self-improvement and development. Ambitious and committed to the very highest standards of student outcomes.
2. Has an excellent knowledge about a range of SEND matters and demonstrates a compassionate and inclusive approach in their practice.
3. Can take a lead in driving forward an inclusive ethos across the school.
4. Is able to work constructively with and support a wide range of stakeholders.
5. Has excellent IT, organisational and time management skills.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer the successful candidate:
- An opportunity to work with an experienced Headteacher and forward-thinking and supportive Senior Leadership Team
- A pleasant environment conducive to high quality teaching and learning with friendly and motivated staff across the school
- A caring and affirming culture and ethos with a staff social committee who regularly organise events to enhance this
- Opportunities for professional development and progression including support for NPQs
- Well-resourced and well-managed departments with a collaborative attitude to classroom management and commitment to raising standards and securing achievement for all students
- Well behaved students that are keen to achieve and are respectful of their teachers.
- Support for staff wellbeing through access to SAS wellbeing services, including:
- Fair allowances for staff requiring leave of absence beyond that relating to illness
- Non-contact time which is above the national minimum requirement of 10% of timetable
- Cycle to Work schemes
- Long Service days – support staff
- Staff Social events
- Wellbeing Activities i.e yoga classes, staff team football
- Loyalty Award Scheme
Further information about the job
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 Questionnaire
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 Trinity Catholic High School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1598 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Trinity Catholic High School website
- Email address
- recruitment@tchs.org.uk
Trinity Catholic High School is large Catholic comprehensive school situated in the London Borough of Redbridge and within the Diocese of Brentwood. Ofsted have ranked us as ‘outstanding’ on 5 consecutive occasions and we have a reputation for excellence in all aspects of our service to the children in our school and the wider community. Our school’s inspection reports can be viewed on this link: www.tchs.org.uk/about-us/inspections. The highest standards relating to Teaching and Learning are a feature of daily life at Trinity and these significantly and positively impact student progress and attainment. Trinity’s Section 48 report (January 2020) states that “Trinity Catholic High School is an outstanding school and a beacon of high-quality Catholic education. It has an excellent reputation in the local community and beyond and it is rightly seen as a flagship school for the Diocese of Brentwood”. The report also emphasises that “Catholic life at Trinity Catholic High School is outstanding and is of the highest quality” and “Every aspect of Collective Worship at the school is outstanding".
School location
Similar jobs nearby
Get a job alert when similar jobs are listed
Find more school jobs in Essex, Southend and Thurrock