Head of SEND
Creative Education Trust, London, WC2E 9JD13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
30 November 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
17 November 2025
Job details
Job role
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday, 37 hours a week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Salary dependent upon experience
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you ready to shape SEND provision across a Trust that champions Ambition, Equity and Opportunity for all?
Join Creative Education Trust as our Head of SEND and lead with purpose - guiding and challenging our schools to deliver exceptional outcomes for children with SEND. You’ll work closely with SENCOs, Headteachers, and external partners, ensuring compliance, driving improvement, and celebrating every child’s success. This is your opportunity to influence policy, elevate practice, and make a lasting difference across our family of schools.
Job Title: Head of SEND
Location: Primarily based in our schools, with regular visits to Head Office and other trust locations
Salary: dependent upon experience
Start Date: ASAP
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full Time
Application Closing Date: Sunday 30th November 2025
Interview Date: Tuesday 9th December, in our London Head Office
About You:
As Head of SEND, you’ll bring deep expertise and a strategic mindset to leading inclusive education across our Trust. With experience spanning multiple schools, you will have experience of embedding high-quality SEND practice and hold others to account. With a track record of working in partnership with SENCOs and senior leaders, you’ve provided expert support while confidently challenging practice to strengthen provision and improve outcomes. Your knowledge of legislation, funding, and external partnerships enables you to drive improvement with confidence. Known for your sound judgement and clear communication, you lead with purpose - balancing strategic thinking with collaboration and a commitment to equity for every child.
Our Ideal Candidate Will:
*Specialist Qualifications: Hold recognised SEND qualification and/or evidence of extensive CPD relating to SEND
*Leadership Experience: Have significant leadership experience, at trust or local authority level, and/or as a headteacher or principal, or a SENDCO who has worked across different schools
*Classroom Expertise: Have significant teaching experience, including teaching children with SEND in mainstream and/or special school settings
*Professional Development Leadership: Bring experience of providing high quality training and development for SEND staff in schools, LAs or other education settings (e.g. to SENCOs, LSAs, LA staff).
*Strategic Problem-Solving: Bring the ability to evaluate accurately and to solve complex problems and challenges.
*Collaborative Leadership: Be able to build and sustain effective working relationships with headteachers, staff, Directors, parents and the wider community, including with the Diocese, LAs and external agencies.
About the Education Team:
At Creative Education Trust, our Education Team leads the strategic development of teaching, learning, and inclusion across our family of schools. Led by Dr Jason Howard, Director of Education, the team brings together extensive experience in headship, multi-academy trust leadership, curriculum development, safeguarding, and SEND. Working in close partnership with Headteachers and school leaders, the team provides expert guidance and challenge to ensure consistently high standards across our network. Rooted in our values of Ambition, Equity and Opportunity, the Education Team’s work is focused on enabling schools to deliver excellent outcomes for all learners - through collaboration, consistency, and a shared commitment to improvement.
What the school offers its staff
About Creative Education Trust:
Creative Education Trust is a growing network of 17 schools, educating over 13,500 children and young people across England. Since 2010, we’ve worked in partnership with communities to deliver an education that inspires ambition, promotes equity, and unlocks opportunity for every learner.
We believe every child has talent, every community has strength, and every school can be a place where excellence thrives. Our curriculum is rich, broad, and inclusive - designed to build knowledge, nurture creativity, and prepare students for the future.
We are united by a shared purpose: to transform lives through education. Our schools are places where students feel safe, supported, and empowered to lead their own lives with confidence. Through collaboration, high expectations, and purposeful leadership, we ensure that success is both expected and achieved - together. Visit our Trust website to explore how we support our staff and discover more about our mission, values, and opportunities.
Ready to Join Us?
Submit your application directly through our website. We warmly welcome visits to our school, and if you'd like to arrange a visit or confidential conversation with the Line Manager, our friendly HR/Recruitment team is here to help. Reach out to our Recruitment Manager katy.youngman@creativeeducationtrust.org.uk, and we'll be delighted to assist you.
Essential Information:
Creative Education Trust (CET) is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people by keeping them safe, we expect all our colleagues to share in this responsibility.
All shortlisted candidates are subject to online checks prior to interview.
The CET Recruitment Policy follows the guidance set out by Keeping Children Safe in Education, where all offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS Check, separate Barred List Check, References and where appropriate a Prohibition from teaching search.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974.
CET is committed to developing, maintaining, and supporting an inclusive culture and environment for the benefit of its employees and the communities it serves.
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
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
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About Creative Education Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- katy.youngman@creativeeducationtrust.org.uk
Arranging a visit to Creative Education Trust
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email katy.youngman@creativeeducationtrust.org.uk.
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