HLTA - SENDCo Support Lead

High Storrs School, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S11 7LH

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  19 November 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  5 November 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £31,015.00 - £33,673.00 Annually (FTE)

HLTA - SENDCo Support Lead job summary

High Storrs is a highly successful, oversubscribed 11-18 comprehensive school in south-west Sheffield. We offer an exceptional learning environment where high academic standards sit alongside a strong commitment to inclusion, creativity and personal development. Our GCSE and A-level results are among the strongest in the city, with students achieving outstanding outcomes and progress from a wide range of starting points, but we are equally proud of the many wider achievements that enrich school life, from the arts, sport and charity work to our celebration of diversity and community values. Central to our success is a strong pastoral system built around our House structure, which supports students to settle, thrive and achieve, alongside a culture of partnership with families. We are equally committed to the wellbeing and professional development of staff through an extensive CPD programme and a proactive approach to staff wellbeing. High Storrs combines a proud tradition with a clear vision for the future, providing a broad curriculum, excellent facilities and a vibrant programme of extracurricular opportunities that ensure every day is purposeful, enriching and rewarding for both students and staff.

We are seeking a dedicated and passionate professional to deliver high-quality interventions that help students develop the foundational skills needed to succeed at High Storrs School and beyond. The role involves supporting the achievement, engagement, and wellbeing of students with SEND, working closely with colleagues across the SEND team and families, and contributing to the coordination and delivery of targeted support programmes that enable all students to thrive.

Key Responsibilities and Requirements

Teach high-quality lessons to a range of intervention groups ensuring they master foundational skills to enable them to thrive at HSS and beyond.

Develop and deliver a range of high impact interventions to enable students to thrive at HSS.

Support the achievement, engagement and well-being of students with SEND.

Coordinate and oversee some duties with the SEND team

Work collaboratively with other members of the SEND team (including TAs, Learning Mentor and Volunteers within the department) to support students with SEND and their families.

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.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About High Storrs School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1706 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: High Storrs School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/high-storrs-school

High Storrs is a high-performing 11-18 secondary school on the South Western outskirts of Sheffield that has benefitted from a £27m refurbishment of our Grade II listed building. Serving a multi-cultural learning community with high expectations and high aspirations, we are an over-subscribed school.

Minerva Learning Trust is an expanding Sheffield based multi-academy Trust with a vision of providing outstanding education for all the students within our schools. The Trust is passionate that all students should see their time at school as happy and fulfilling with their potential developed to the utmost. High Storrs School joined the Trust in April 2018.

We are seeking staff who believe in young people’s capacity to achieve, develop their own character, personality and sense of considerate citizenship. If you believe that learning is important for everyone in a school and share our passion, then you are exactly who we are looking for in an appointment to expand our staff team.

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