SEND Practitioner
St. Mary's Menston, a Catholic Voluntary Academy, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, LS29 6AE8 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
3 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
25 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,711.00 - £30,060.00 Annually (FTE) Salary NJC Grade C1, Scale Points 12 – 17, Actual Salary £23,357 - £25,337 per annum
SEND Practitioner job summary
- Permanent, 37 hours per week, term time only plus 1 additional day
- Salary NJC Grade C1, Scale Points 12 – 17, £27,711 - £30,060 per annum
- 8.00 am – 4.00pm Monday to Thursday and 8.00am – 3.30pm Friday (30 minutes unpaid lunch break each day)
- Actual Salary £23,357 - £25,337 per annum
- Required for September 2025
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and compassionate SEND Practitioner to join a hardworking and dedicated team within a high achieving and oversubscribed Catholic Voluntary Academy.
As a practitioner, you will work directly with small groups of students to overcome barriers to learning and provide expert support, guidance and interventions tailored to their needs. This is a newly created role and as such provides a fresh and exciting opportunity for an engaging and self-motivated individual.
If you are keen to make a difference working with young people, coupled with the drive and commitment required to be an excellent member of our team, then we would like to hear from you.
What are we looking for?
- Someone with the ability to provide consistent professional standards regarding work and behaviour.
- A colleague who is able to engage constructively with, and relate to, a wide range of young people with different SEND needs and social backgrounds
- A colleague who has the ability to challenge and motivate students, promoting and reinforcing their self-esteem
- Someone with the ability to work in a positive and flexible way.
What can we offer you?
- Employee discount scheme (offering cycle to work scheme, gym membership, money saving offers across hundreds of the UK’s favourite high-street and online retailers, home and electrical items).
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (Education Support).
- On-site parking and access to canteen.
- Local Government Pension Scheme.
- A supportive organisation with the commitment to professional development and wellbeing.
St. Mary’s is a popular and highly successful school situated on the North-West fringe of Leeds, close to the Yorkshire Dales. The school is part of the Bishop Wheeler Catholic Academy Trust which consists of 2 high schools and 14 primary schools. The June 2019 Section 48 judged St Mary’s as an outstanding school and the March 2025 Ofsted inspection judged St Mary’s to be outstanding in all areas.
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed, please contact Jo-Anne Hughes, PA to the Senior Leadership Team on 01943 883000 to make an appointment.
Further details including a job description, person specification and how to apply are available via the Trust website https://www.bishopwheelercatholicacademytrust.org/Trust-Academy-Vacancies/ or the school website www.stmarysmenston.org in the vacancies section.
The Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy for applications or withdraw the vacancy at any time at its absolute discretion.
St Mary’s is committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of all children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
In line with KCSiE 2024, we will carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This may help identify any matters that are publicly available online, which we might want to explore with you at interview.
Commitment to safeguarding
St Mary’s is committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of all children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
In line with KCSiE 2023, we will carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This may help identify any matters that are publicly available online, which we might want to explore with you at interview.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About St. Mary's Menston, a Catholic Voluntary Academy
- School type
- Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1195 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St. Mary's Menston, a Catholic Voluntary Academy website
St. Mary’s is a popular and highly successful school situated on the North West fringe of Leeds, close to the Yorkshire Dales. The school is part of the Bishop Wheeler Catholic Academy Trust which consists of the high school and 9 primary schools. The November 2014 Ofsted inspection judged St Mary’s as an outstanding school. We became a Teaching School in October 2015 and a National Support School in September 2017.
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