SEND Hub Teacher-in-charge

Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE3 9XD

4 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  20 May 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  13 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £31,650.00 - £47,338.00 Annually (Actual) MPS/UPS (plus SEN1 allowance)

SEND Hub Teacher-in-charge job summary

• The governors and the leadership team are looking to appoint a teacher-in-charge for our newly established SEND Hub, supporting up to eight children with ASD.

In September 2024, Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School opened a SEND Hub for up to eight children with ASD. Due to the promotion of our current teacher within our school, we are now looking for a knowledgeable and skilled teacher-in-charge to lead this provision.

The successful candidate will:

• Have an in-depth knowledge and understanding of SEND, in particular ASD, and a thorough knowledge of appropriate teaching and learning strategies for these pupils.
• Be passionate about ensuring that all children can learn to read.
• Be confident leading training and managing and leading staff.
• Be adaptable and able to work under pressure.
• Be open to support and advice from the local authority, families and other professionals working with these children.
• Have high expectations of what all pupils can achieve, no matter their starting point.
• Be approachable, kind, compassionate and act in accordance with the Catholic ethos and values of the school (we welcome applications from both Catholic and non-Catholic candidates).

Job description and main responsibilities:

• Overseeing the day-to-day operation of the school’s SEN policy with a focus on the Specialism of the SEND Hub.
• Co-ordinating provision for children/ young people in the SEND Hub.
• Liaising with the relevant Designated Teacher where a Looked After/Child in Care pupil attends the SEND Hub.
• Advising on the graduated approach to providing specialist support for children/ young people attending the SEND Hub.
• Advising on the deployment of the school’s delegated budget and other resources to meet the SEND Hubs children/ young people’s needs effectively.
• Liaising with parent/carers of SEND Hub children/ young people.
• Liaising with other schools, educational psychologists, health and social care professionals, and independent or voluntary bodies regarding children/young people attending the SEND Hub.
• Being a key point of contact alongside the SEND Hub Manager for external agencies, especially Peterborough City Council and its specialist support services regarding children/ young people attending the SEND Hub.
• Liaising with potential future providers of education to ensure a child’s/ young person and their parents are informed about options and a smooth transition is planned.
• Undertake any reasonable duties outlined by the Headteacher in line with the role of a teacher.

What we can offer you:

• A strong and supportive leadership team
• Appropriate release time to effectively carryout leadership duties
• Opportunities for funded NPQs
• A Trust-wide and school-level wellbeing charter.
• Cycles of professional learning that are designed to improve pedagogy through the use of deliberate practice and peer coaching.
• A collaborative and positive environment which fosters personal and professional growth.
• Opportunities to lead and support across the Trust and within the local authority.
• A visible and approachable SLT, LGB and Trust who all hold the same values and see staff wellbeing and happiness as vital ingredients to working at Sacred Heart.
• Performance development with a clear focus development of practice to improve teaching and learning
• A dedicated pastoral team to support both staff and children.

Visits to the school are welcomed. Please contact the school office on 01733 262449 or office@sacredheart.peterborough.sch.uk to arrange.

Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare, both physical and emotional, of every pupil both inside and outside of the school premises.

As part of safer recruitment, Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, which is part of the St John the Baptist Catholic Multi Academy Trust, might conduct an online search in accordance with the Keeping Children Safe in Education framework.

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.

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About Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 210 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/sacred-heart-catholic-primary-school-peterborough

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