SENCO (Senior Management Team)
Grace College, Gateshead, NE9 6LE11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2026
Closing date
10 December 2025 at 9am
Date listed
28 November 2025
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
- £61,555.00 - £67,922.00 Annually (Actual)
SENCO (Senior Management Team) job summary
SENCO (Senior Management Team), Term Time Plus 10 Additional Days, Monday - Friday, 37.5 Hours Per Week
Grace College have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our Senior Management Team to help us deliver an even better service to the staff and students. We aim to enhance support for SEND students by adopting an innovative and effective approach, ensuring all students reach their fullest potential through the very best adaptive and quality first teaching and where appropriate tailored individual provisions.
To achieve this, we want to continue to develop the skill and knowledge of our teaching staff and the SEND team so that:
support staff can provide excellent classroom support for students;
ensure teaching staff are leaders of learning for all students and plan learning so that students can engage fully;
the SEND team develop and evaluate effective interventions;
This role demands a deep understanding of students on the SEND register and a commitment to being or becoming high qualified on pedagogical training for various specialist needs.
The successful candidate will be a people person capable of ensuring all staff feel able to support students with a wide range of needs. They must be able to communicate competently and sensitively with parents. They will be intuitive to the needs of students and able to find solutions to support students with complex needs. They will be firm yet understanding with students who are struggling to regulate, providing a calm and safe environment to enable all students to thrive through the delivery of high quality of provision which aims to ensure all students can remain in the classroom with their teacher.
The role will demand excellent classroom management skills which seek to support and encourage students, whatever their ability or stage of learning so that the successful candidate can role model these to other staff. They will also need to be a strong team player and work collaboratively with a variety of members of staff.
Whilst relevant experience and qualifications are valuable, we place significant value and importance upon personal qualities and convictions that align with this demanding role.
There is no requirement that individual members of staff should be Christians, but it is essential however that all staff understand and enthusiastically support our mission, ethos and values.
If, prior to submitting your application, you wish to visit Grace College to find out more about the role and the College, then you would be most welcome.
We have high expectations for our students as they grow and develop and all our staff provide important role models to them in terms of positive attitude, work ethic and diligence.
Further information is available in the job description and person specification.
Join us and in addition to working with committed and helpful colleagues, the Trust can offer access to the following benefits:
- Defined benefit pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Free parking
- Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub
- Employee centred and family friendly policies and practices that support you in and beyond the workplace
- Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave and paternity leave (dependent on length of service)
- Competitive holiday entitlement for support staff (minimum 25 days, plus bank 8 holidays per annum, pro-rated for part-time post-holders)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to T/Cs)
Grace College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. Where the post is engaged in regulated activity, and/or an opportunity for contact with children the position will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. In addition, as part of the shortlisting process, and in accordance with statutory guidance, we may carry out an online search (for publicly available material) to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened which we may want to explore with shortlisted applicants at interview.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Grace College is committed to the safeguarding of children and all staff are expected to ensure that the College is a safe and secure environment for our students. All applicants are referred to the Safeguarding Statement which is to be found within the Policy section of the Grace College website.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Grace College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1146 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Grace College website
As an 11-19 secondary school serving nearly 1,300 students in central Gateshead, we have a clear vision for excellence in character education, the examined curriculum and in service to our community, grounded in our Christian ethos. We are part of the Emmanuel Schools Foundation, which opens exceptional opportunities for knowledge sharing and career development. We have a clear model for school improvement to provide outstanding education for all students and are relentless in the pursuit of this goal. You will be central to delivering our strategy, as you transform both the school and our students’ futures.
We are committed to realising the potential of our students and staff alike. Our hope and expectation are that each person will be deeply valued as infinitely precious, challenged to grow in character and inspired by learning together to achieve their personal best in whatever they do.
Join us and you can expect to be nurtured, supported, and encouraged at every step of your career. We put staff professional learning and development front and centre of everything we do in our partnerships with outstanding regional and national organisations. Ultimately, we are looking for the school leaders of tomorrow who will contribute here at Grace College and across the Emmanuel Schools Foundation.
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