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  • Start date details

    TBC

  • Closing date

    3 October 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    30 September 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Other leadership roles

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time: Monday to Friday

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£61,534 to £67,898

What skills and experience we're looking for

As a specialist in SEMH, you will:

  • Champion inclusive practices and lead the development of sustainable strategies for vulnerable children and young people across the Family of Schools.
  • Provide hands-on support to school leaders and staff by designing and delivering targeted training and interventions, including classroom-based demonstrations of best practice.
  • Develop curricula and resources to improve literacy, numeracy and other skills for SEMH students.
  • Analyse the impact of interventions, advise on policy and procedures, and build external partnerships to ensure every child and young person can access learning and achieve their full potential.

What the school offers its staff

This is an exciting time to join Outwood Grange Academies Trust. We are refreshing and renewing our strategy with a clear ambition: to ensure every one of our schools stands as a beacon of sustainable excellence, delivering the very best for the children we serve. Your leadership will foster collaboration, ensure high quality and promote continuous improvement across the Family of Schools. It's about empowering colleagues to deliver outstanding pastoral practice for their students.

This key role offers a unique opportunity for an SEMH expert to make a profound and lasting impact. Your dedication will ensure that our schools are places where every child, particularly the most vulnerable, feels valued, supported, and empowered to thrive, every single day. Through placing students first, you will raise standards and transform lives.

The position requires flexibility and a willingness to work across any of the 42 schools within the Trust, under the direction of the Chief Executive of the Outwood Institute of Education.

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

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About Outwood Grange Academies Trust

Type
Multi-academy trust

We are an award-winning multi-academy education trust with passion, purpose and people at our heart. We manage 41 transformative primary, junior, secondary and Post 16 schools up and down the North of England, from Redcar to Nottinghamshire, each celebrating very different identities but driven by a shared vision. Each academy is individually shaped around the community and children it serves.

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