SENDCo
Clapgate Primary School, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS10 4AW22 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
1 May 2026 at 9am
Date listed
9 April 2026
Job details
Job role
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L1 - L3
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you passionate about meeting the needs of children with SEND? Do you have the skills and insight to support children with additional needs so they can truly fulfil their potential? Are you confident in providing high quality guidance to teachers and teaching assistants to ensure that our learners with SEND thrive and succeed?
At Clapgate Primary School, we are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for an experienced SENDCo to join our driven, dedicated, and successful senior leadership team. Our school supports a wide range of complex needs, and we are fully committed to delivering the highest standard of SEND provision for every child. We are seeking an experienced teacher who shares our commitment, values, and ambition for inclusive excellence.
This is a non-class based role, enabling the SENDCo to develop a thorough understanding of every child with SEND and to work closely with teachers, teaching assistants, and parents to ensure their needs are effectively met. The role may also include teaching small groups of children with SEND as required.
We also recognise the importance of work–life balance and professional thinking time. As part of this role, you will benefit from the option to work from home one day per week, allowing dedicated time for paperwork completion and submission, strategic planning, and professional reflection without interruption. This flexibility is just one of the many ways we aim to support our leaders to thrive in their roles. The SENDCo is also fully supported by a part-time Assistant SENDCo, providing additional capacity for meetings, paperwork, provision mapping, and day-to-day coordination. This ensures the leadership of SEND is truly collaborative, manageable, and impactful, allowing you to focus on strategic development as well as personalised support for pupils and staff.
Required Qualifications and Experience
- Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
- NASENCo qualification (or willingness to complete it).
- Experience working as a SENDCo or in a key SEND leadership role.
- Strong understanding of the SEND Code of Practice and effective SEND provision.
- Successful teaching experience, ideally across primary phases.
- Experience working with external agencies and managing EHCP processes.
- Ability to support, advise, and train staff.
- Excellent communication, organisation, and record‑keeping skills.
We are looking for somebody who is…
- Passionate about inclusion and committed to improving outcomes for children with SEND.
- Warm, approachable, and able to build strong relationships with pupils, staff, and families.
- Highly organised, proactive, and able to manage a varied workload effectively.
- A confident communicator who can offer clear guidance and support to staff.
- Skilled at problem-solving and thinking creatively to meet individual needs.
- Calm, resilient, and able to work under pressure when needed.
- Positive, reflective, and open to ongoing professional development.
- A team player who contributes to a supportive and collaborative school culture.
- Able to provide strong strategic leadership as a key member of the senior leadership team, driving high-quality SEND provision across the school.
What the school offers its staff
At Clapgate, we deeply value the pivotal role our SENDCo plays in ensuring every child receives the support they need to flourish. Our recent Ofsted inspection (July 2024) praised our outstanding personal development and Early Years provision, recognising our welcoming community, our ambition for every learner, and the high-quality support offered to pupils with SEND. As SENDCo, you will be joining a school where inclusion is a core strength and where your expertise will be respected, celebrated, and central to our continued success.
Our latest Ofsted report (July 2024) made the following comments:
‘Everyone is welcome and made to feel special at Clapgate Primary School’
‘Pupils celebrate and value each other and the adults who work with them’
‘Adults have the highest ambition for every pupil including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND)’
‘The school has created a harmonious atmosphere where pupils behave consistently well’
‘The school has successfully created a culture of care, compassion and high expectation’’
Please view our full Ofsted report.
We can offer:
- A happy, motivated, and friendly staff team.
- Enthusiastic, curious children who love to learn.
- A vibrant atmosphere that encourages creativity and innovation.
- Large, attractive classrooms and outstanding school grounds, including vast playing fields, a nature area, a campfire circle, animals, and allotments.
- An enthusiastic, supportive senior leadership team with a passion for raising standards and improving children’s lives.
- A rich curriculum centred around first‑hand experiences and a highly creative focus.
- A robust appraisal process to support your ongoing professional development.
- A strong respect for work–life balance.
- An assistant SENDCo, providing additional capacity for meetings, paperwork, provision mapping, and day-to-day coordination.
- One day a week working from home.
Visit our website to watch our school video and learn more about our community.
https://www.clapgateprimaryschool.co.uk/
Further information about the job
Application Information
- Closing date: Friday 1st May
- Interviews: Friday 8th May
To request an application pack, please email: clapgaterecruit@clapgateprimaryschool.org or call the school office on 0113 2716700
Completed applications to be sent to the same email or delivered by hand/post to the school.
Visits to our school are strongly encouraged and welcomed. We would like to invite all potential applicants to come and visit our school on Monday 20th April or Thursday 23rd April. Please call the school office to arrange an appointment.
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
If shortlisted, applicants will be asked to disclose relevant information regarding their criminal history
Applying for the job
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Clapgate Primary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 440 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Clapgate Primary School website
- Email address
- beltm@clapgateprimaryschool.org
- Phone number
- 0113 2716700
Clapgate Primary is a highly successful and popular school situated in Belle Isle in the south of the city. The school is two form entry. Most children start school with us in our Nursery and remain with us until they are 11.
Clapgate Primary also has close links with other neighbouring schools and is in the JESS cluster. It is also part of the Red Kite Teaching Alliance.
The school occupies a large site with extensive playing fields, playgrounds, an orchard, allotments and school animals.
At Clapgate we place a huge emphasis on pupil achievement and adopt a creative approach to teaching and learning. We are committed to inclusion and equality of opportunity.
Clapgate Primary prides itself on the positive attitude held by all who work at the school. The children are friendly, polite and welcoming. There is very good behaviour throughout the school.
Clapgate is a good school with outstanding pupil personal development and Early Years provision (Ofsted July 2024) and prides itself on the positive attitude held by all the staff.
Our latest Ofsted report (July 2024) made the following comments:
‘Everyone is welcome and made to feel special at Clapgate Primary School’
‘Pupils celebrate and value each other and the adults who work with them’
‘Adults have the highest ambition for every pupil including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND)’
‘The school has created a harmonious atmosphere where pupils behave consistently well’
‘The school has successfully created a culture of care, compassion and high expectation’’
We wish to appoint dedicated staff with positive attitudes who will continue to maintain these high standards.
Arranging a visit to Clapgate Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email beltm@clapgateprimaryschool.org.
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