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  • Start date details

    September 2025

  • Closing date

    19 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    14 May 2025

Job details

Job role

  • SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)

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Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£62,505.00 - £68,922.00 Annually (Actual)

SENDCO job summary

The role of the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Coordinator is to provide vision, leadership and management for all students who are identified as students with SEND, holding responsibility for student outcomes and achievement for these students. The post holder will also share in the responsibility for leadership of the Academy as a member of the Leadership Team to provide the leadership to continue the transformational journey to ensure the best for everyone, the best from everyone.

The SENDCo will be responsible for enabling all students with SEND to successfully access the curriculum and be successful, working with the assistant SENDCo and a team of Teaching Assistants to enable student to be the best that they can be. The SENDCo will be a successful and experienced teacher of a curriculum subject currently taught at Cedar Mount Academy, who is able to enthuse, motivate and inspire children, generating a love for learning regardless of the barriers. The successful candidate will have demonstrated the potential for excellent leadership, management and communication skills in their present role. Good teamwork, high standards and a capacity for hard work will have been at the core of this success.

The successful candidate will be a creative thinker with an ability and determination to secure high-quality outcomes. The role of SENDCo will bring with it a teaching timetable in line with other senior leaders in the academy.

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

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About Cedar Mount Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
830 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
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School website
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Cedar Mount Academy is located within Gorton Educational Village in Gorton, East Manchester and shares the campus with two of our partner schools in the Trust; Melland High School, a Special Educational Needs school for 11-19 years and Rushbrook Primary Academy.

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