SENDCo Assistant

Nidderdale High School, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG3 5HL

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  5 December 2025 at 8am

• Date listed

  24 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £22,706.58 Annually (Actual) SCP 7 - 11

SENDCo Assistant job summary

Nidderdale High School is a vibrant and highly successful school, with an ambition to develop an innovative curriculum in support of academic achievement and wellbeing for all. The school continues to grow in size and maintains a strong reputation in the community. Our recent Ofsted inspection confirmed we are a good school with ‘high ambitions’.

The school is seeking to appoint an experienced and successful SENDCo Assistant with the passion, skills and qualities to help realise our ambitions for the future.

This role provides an exciting opportunity for a colleague to contribute to strengthening SEND across the school.

The school has a strong reputation within and beyond our local community and with a wide range of professionals for outstanding pastoral care and inclusive practice. As a small school we are uniquely placed to know our students as individuals and have planned a range of bespoke and innovative programmes to support our young people, this includes our NiddVenture offer.

Relationships are key at Nidderdale High School and the successful candidate will demonstrate a commitment to restorative and relational practice. They will have high expectations and an unwavering commitment to all students maximising their potential through outstanding support, encouragement, collaboration, and mentoring. The SENDCo Assistant role forms part of an inclusive pastoral structure and the postholder will support the SENDCo as part of the wider Inclusion Team.

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check.

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 Nidderdale High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 395 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Nidderdale High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/nidderdale-high-school-harrogate

11-16 secondary school

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