SENCO

Highfield Community Primary School, Chorley, Lancashire, PR6 0SP

19 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  11 May 2026 at 1:03pm

• Date listed

  22 April 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 45352.00

SENCO job summary

The Role

We are seeking a dedicated, strategic, and highly organised non-teaching Lead SENCO to drive inclusive excellence across two of our primary schools within the Trust.  This is a pivotal full-time role designed for a practitioner who thrives on high-level strategic planning and cross-school collaboration.

As a Trust-based SENCO, you will provide expert leadership for SEND provision at both Highfield Community Primary School (including its on-site SEN Unit) and Gillibrand Primary School. You will act as the central architect for inclusion, ensuring that pupils at both sites benefit from standardised, high-quality support and that staff are empowered through shared expertise.



Why This Multi-Site Role?

• Strategic Breadth: Influence the SEND landscape across two distinct settings, shaping the "Local Hub" strategy for the Trust.
• True Non-Teaching Status: This is a purely leadership-focused position with no regular timetabled teaching, allowing you the capacity to manage two sites effectively.
• Collaborative Power: Lead a diverse team of TAs, specialist Unit staff, and pastoral leads across both schools.
• Efficiency & Impact: By aligning the processes of two schools, you will reduce administrative duplication and maximize the impact of specialist resources.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and oversee SEND policy and strategy across both schools, ensuring compliance with the SEND Code of Practice. Report regularly to the heads of school and executive headteacher on the impact of SEND strategy.
• Unit Management: Provide strategic oversight of Highfield’s SEN unit and facilitate ‘cross pollination’ of skills, allowing staff from both schools to observe and learn from the specialist unit environment. 
• EHCP Management: Lead the statutory assessment process and oversee the delivery and review of all Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs).
• Staff Mentorship: Provide high-quality CPD and "quality first teaching" guidance to staff to ensure inclusive practice in every classroom.
• MAT Collaboration: Serve as a key member of the Trust’s SEND network, leading on ‘best practice’ initiatives. 

This role is advertised as full time but we will consider a job share.

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.

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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 Highfield Community Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 5 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 245 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/highfield-community-primary-school

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