SENCo

Limebrook Primary School and Nursery, Maldon, Essex, CM9 6NE

38 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  18 April 2026 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  11 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £13,164.00 - £18,140.00 Annually (Actual) SEN allowance

SENCo job summary

Part time - 2 days per week - Days to be confirmed

Limebrook Primary School & Nursery is looking to recruit an experienced, enthusiastic and committed SENCO. We are a warm, friendly school and team, with wonderful children and supportive parents. Children are motivated to learn, are exceptionally well behaved and deserve the best that we can give them. Teachers are all supported on their ongoing CPD through quality support from the Lion Academy Trust team.

This is an exciting opportunity to implement the Trust agreed provision for SEND and gifted and talented children and interventions, working as a member of the leadership team. Under the direction of the head Teacher, you will determine the strategic development of special educational needs (SEN) and co-ordination of specific provision to support individual pupils with SEN or a disability. You will need to line manage LSA teams and support the SEN interventions across the schools, working closely with the Deputy Head Teacher. The successful candidate will have experience with Essex SEND procedures and will be familiar with documentation for applying for EHCPs and annual reviews.

The successful candidate would be employed as a teacher under the STPCD and will hold specific duties in the role of SENCo.

We are inviting applications from qualified teachers who hold the SENCO qualification.

The ideal candidate will need to be :

• highly professional

• a good team player

• resilient

• an effective communicator with all stakeholders and multi-agencies

• responsive and adaptable and able to follow through on all tasks

• pro-active

• organized

• emotionally intelligent

• Able to develop positive relationships with children and adults

  We can offer you:

  • career progression and leadership opportunities

  • unlimited access to CPD and career development through providers such as The National College and The Key.

  • a dynamic, dedicated team of teachers and support staff who want the best for their children

  • enthusiastic, friendly and aspirational children who are determined to make the most of their schooling

  • a vibrant and rapidly improving school with rewards and opportunities for motivated and committed individuals

  • Lion Pathways Curriculum

  • Employee Assistance programme for you and your immediate family

  • Perks at Work discounted cinema tickets, travel

  The Trust is an equal opportunities employer and committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, the successful applicant must provide satisfactory references and will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service disclosure, along with all relevant safeguarding checks.

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 Limebrook Primary School and Nursery

• School type: Free School, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 113 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Limebrook Primary School and Nursery website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/limebrook-primary-school-and-nursery

Limebrook Primary School and Nursery offers places for all nursery aged children (0-5) and for children starting primary school in Reception.

Offering 30 places in Reception and up to 56 places in the nursery - with extended hours and wrap-around care being on offer from the first day to support local, working parents who are looking for a convenient, quality-based childcare service to meet their needs.

The school boasts fantastic outdoor and indoor facilities, a multi-use games area, large playing fields, spacious classrooms all kitted out with the high-quality resources and IT that we demand for every setting. Our nursery spaces blend both play and learning, and give equal importance to indoor and external learning opportunities.

At all times, our focus is on ensuring our schools are safe and engaging places for learning to take place and our focus on site security and safeguarding means you can confidently leave your child with us, knowing they will be receiving the best possible learning and care while in Limebrook Primary School.

The whole Trust educational offer starts in nursery and we look forward to showing what we mean we say “Your child, our priority” to parents.

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