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Director of SEN

Chiltern Way Academy, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP22 6NL

This job expired on 11 June 2025 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  11 June 2025 at 4pm

• Date listed

  9 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £63,815.00 Annually (FTE) £1801 Extraneous per annum

Director of SEN job summary

Internal Secondment Vacancy - Director of SEN

From 1st September 2025 – 31st August 2026

Salary: Leadership Spine point will be based on experience

Chiltern Way Academy Trust wishes to appoint an exceptional SENCo to lead to SEN department as the Director of SEN on a Secondment basis. This will be an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, experienced individual to take the next step in their CWAT journey. You must be an experienced SENDCo and as part of the whole Academy Trust, help shape the Trust and lead on all SEN initiatives. You will be based at our Wendover Campus.

You will work as part of the Executive Leadership Team to provide professional leadership for the Trust and ensure that our vision and mission are embedded in everything we do. It is essential that the successful candidate has the ability to lead, support and motivate staff members and build good relationships with stakeholders, students and staff along with a personal history of successful involvement in educational and operational management.

You will:

To provide direction for the Trust’s SEND team and ensure the provision of high standards of teaching, support, intervention and guidance to help students overcome barriers to learning and engagement.

To provide strategic leadership of the provision for students with special educational needs (SEN) across the CWAT in order to ensure that these students make excellent progress

To oversee the leadership, management and effectively deployment of staff and resources within the SEN provision to ensure EHCP targets are being met across CWAT.

To support and oversee campus Sencos for them lead, monitor and evaluate the development of learning and teaching strategies for students with specific SEN.

To ensure that staff are provided with relevant information and training relating to the support of these students.

Be responsible at Trust level to ensure that paperwork relating to students with SEN meets statutory

requirements, including EHCP’s and Annual Reviews.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrated measurable positive achievement as a classroom practitioner, Exceptional SENCO Leader and evidence of wider success across school life.

We encourage all suitably qualified staff to consider the attached job description before applying.

Interviews will a competency-based question and answer session with a 10-minute presentation. The topic will be - 'Leading effective SEN provision: Balancing priorities through strategic stakeholder management'

Closing date: 11th June 2025

Interviews: Monday 16th June 2025

Expressions of interest – two A4 pages maximum. on why you wish to be considered, linked specifically to the Job Description and Person Specification– to:

Mark Taylor, COO

Commitment to safeguarding

Chiltern Way is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check.

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About Chiltern Way Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 19
• School size: 265 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Chiltern Way Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/chiltern-way-academy

The Chiltern Way Academy Trust is a cutting edge and transformational organisation for students with ASC and SEMH, We currently have 7 campuses across the Trust ranging from Combined to Comprehensive schools.

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