SENCO
The Meadows Primary School, Crewe, Cheshire, CW3 9JX20 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
20 August 2025 at 9am
Date listed
30 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,650-£49,084 + SEN allowance FTE
SENCO job summary
The Meadows Primary School is looking to employ a non-teaching SENCO for 1 day per week. We are an ‘Outstanding’ small school, where our family ethos creates a sense of belonging, pride in our community and compassion for everyone in our school family. We strive to enable all children to be successful - both personally and academically. Our motto is “Learning by caring and sharing.” This is something we are passionate about. We are committed to developing our children into reflective, tolerant and respectful global citizens of the future. We believe that a successful lifelong learner is one who cares about their education as well as caring for others around them: they can share resources, ideas and their knowledge with enthusiasm.
We are really excited to advertise a role of a dedicated one day a week SENCo. Previously this role has been delivered alongside a full teaching commitment. The successful candidate will be the named SENCo for the school, co-ordinating the team support under the guidance and supervision of the Head of School. They will also have the unique opportunity to work alongside established linked from SEND provision within out trust as part of a 'Team around the School approach. This Team will enable the school to access specialist support and advice for our pupils.
The post is one-year fixed term in the first instance. This is so that we can review what we expect to be a significant enhancement to our already established, outstanding SEN provision and determine the course of action for subsequent years.
This role will require some flexibility in order to support attendance of multi-agency meetings and would ideally compliment an already qualified SENCO.
The Meadows is a nurturing small school where our family ethos creates a sense of belonging, a pride in our community and compassion for everyone in our school family. We strive to enable all children to be successful, both personally and academically. We do this by providing them with an innovative, inspiring and inclusive curriculum where all learners become independent and resilient and have the possibility to exceed their potential. Our curriculum, alongside a range of enrichment opportunities, are thoughtfully designed to enable our children to develop and retain a deep understanding of what they have learnt so that they are prepared for the next phase in their learning journey.
Our motto is “Learning by caring and sharing.” This is something we are passionate about. We are committed to developing our children into reflective, tolerant and respectful global citizens of the future. We believe that a successful lifelong learner is one who cares about their education as well as caring for others around them: they are able to share resources, ideas and their knowledge with enthusiasm.
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- Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
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- Experienced leadership and subject-specific support.
- Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
- Access to the Trust’s Institute of Education and SCITT.
- Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
- Participating in peer reviews.
- Access to a suite of online courses.
- Placement projects within our family of schools.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About The Meadows Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 105 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- The Meadows Primary School website
The Meadows is a small school where our family ethos creates a sense of belonging, pride in our community and a compassion for everyone in our school family. In October 2017, we converted to an academy within The Shaw Education Trust.
There are 3 mixed age classes and a small Reception class of 14 pupils. Our small size enables all our children to know each other and all our staff to know each and every child. Our motto is “Learning by Caring and Sharing”. Our children care for one another, their school environment, their community and the world which we all share.
Our aim is for all of our children to be successful learners, so they are able to grow, develop and mature into successful adults. Whilst we strive for high academic achievement, success at The Meadows is about happiness, making good choices and feeling proud of yourself. To be successful all children and adults have to overcome setbacks and show resilience. We believe that a successful lifelong learner is one who cares for others around them and is able to share resources, ideas and their knowledge with enthusiasm. At The Meadows Primary School, we aim to prepare our pupils to become good citizens of the future. Through our curriculum we teach pupils British values and how to celebrate diversity.
At The Meadows we have a community of which we can be proud. Our dedicated, highly motivated and friendly team of staff, governors and supportive parents care passionately about our school and the children who attend it.
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