SENDCO
Ernulf Academy, St. Neots, PE19 2SHThis job expired on 18 May 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
18 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
9 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £52,043.00 - £58,985.00 Monthly
SENDCO job summary
JOIN OUR MISSION TO BECOME ONE OF THE BEST SCHOOLS IN THE COUNTRY!
Do you want to be part of a team where you will make a lasting impact on our students, many of whom are disadvantaged, and rapidly accelerate their progress? Do you want to work in a school where you are free to teach, with impeccable student behaviour and unhindered by bureaucracy? Do you want to play a vital role in ensuring students with SEND receive the full support they need to maximize their potential?
Ernulf Academy is looking for a candidate ready to take their next step in their career to become the SENDCO. This is an excellent opportunity for an existing or aspiring SENDCO with a track record of whole-school impact. The position is ideal for someone who shares the Trust’s vision for educational excellence and has the focus to drive rapid, transformational improvement.
About the Role: The SENDCO will be responsible for the provision, assessment, support, and guidance for students with additional needs and those identified as potentially having additional needs. We believe children identifed as SEND can achieve and do not place limits on their progress. We are committed to provinding them with the same structured environment, knowledge-rich curriculum and traditional approach to teaching, behaviour, and culture as other children receive. This is a truly inclusive approach. In fact, it is children identifed as SEND who benefit from these aproaches the most. We believe in teaching powerful knowledge, ‘the best that has been thought and said,’ and an ‘entitlement curriculum’ for all. Influenced by Lemov’s ‘Teach Like A Champion,’ Rosenshine, and recent developments in cognitive science, we believe in explicit instruction and creating a scholarly culture that is warm, strict, disciplined, and joyful. Our values-driven approach ensures impeccable behaviour, allowing teachers to focus on teaching and pupils to focus on learning.
Our Vision: We provide an inclusive, aspirational, and academic education for all our students, ensuring they learn, thrive, and lead successful lives. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, regardless of their background, prior attainment, or needs. We aim to ensure all our students have the option to attend university or pursue aspirational alternatives. We do not lower expectations due to a child’s background or home life, or because they are new to English or have special educational needs. Instead, we redouble our efforts to help children overcome these barriers so they can flourish.
What We Offer:
- Huge support and progression opportunities
- A knowledge-rich curriculum built on ‘powerful knowledge’ and a traditional T&L approach centered around Rosenshine and TLAC
- Collaborative planning with centralised, shared units of work and resources
- Excellent support from the Astrea Trust Central team
- A feedback policy focused on whole class feedback – no onerous marking policies
- Disruption-free learning and a ‘warm/strict’ behaviour system
- Highly visible and supportive senior leaders who have your back
- Centralised detentions, including homework detentions (you do not need to organize/run/chase them at all)
- No formal graded lesson observations – just ongoing ‘no-stakes’ instructional coaching to help you continuously develop
- Excellent ongoing CPD, career development, and promotion opportunities across the Astrea South Yorkshire region
- Opportunity to complete NPQs
- An unrivalled professional progression model
What We Are Looking For: The successful candidate will be:
- A highly effective or aspiring SENDCO who can motivate and encourage colleagues to share the vision
- Aligned with our values and mission. If you fit our culture, you will love working here
- Someone who passionately believes that all children can achieve, no matter their starting point, background, or needs. Someone who does not make excuses for what children can achieve
Why Join Us? Astrea Academy Trust is committed to providing an inclusive, aspirational, and academic education for all our scholars. We believe in teaching powerful knowledge and creating a scholarly culture that is warm, strict, disciplined, and joyful. Our values-driven approach ensures impeccable behaviour, allowing teachers to focus on teaching and pupils to focus on learning.
Interested in Applying? If you are passionate about education, looking for a fresh opportunity, or simply want to make a positive impact, we would love to hear from you. Take a look at the job description and candidate pack to find out more about the role and how to apply. We actively welcome visits and would be delighted to show you around our Academy to fully appreciate our excellent learning environment. Please don't hesitate to get in touch.
Closing Date: The closing date for applications is 18 May 2025. Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity!
Commitment to Safeguarding and EDI: Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks, including references and enhanced DBS checks. We value diversity and encourage applications from candidates who are underrepresented in our workforce, including people from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, and LGBTQI+ communities. As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to promoting a culture that ensures there are no barriers to the recruitment, development, and progression of disabled staff across the trust. We provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate their abilities.
Flexible Interview Dates: Please note that interview dates are flexible and the academy reserves the right to interview shortlisted candidates during the application window.
Ready to Make a Difference? If you're ready to take the next step in your career and contribute to our dynamic and forward-thinking team, apply today and be a part of our mission to create a positive impact!
Commitment to safeguarding
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks.
About Ernulf Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 733 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Ernulf Academy website
Principal’s welcome – Ernulf Academy
Welcome to Ernulf Academy, an 11-16 secondary school in St.Neots located in North Cambridgeshire. The academy is part of Astrea Academy Trust, a highly successful multi-academy trust of primary and secondary academies in Cambridgeshire and South Yorkshire.
Ernulf Academy is a school fully committed to an inclusive, comprehensive curriculum for all, which is underpinned by our five core values: scholarship, curiosity, tenacity, responsibility and respect. These values are at the heart of our vision for the school and the important qualities and characteristics we want all pupils to develop. Our pupils are encouraged to develop confidence, independence and resilience. We strive for them to be ambitious and ‘be the best they can be’, whilst being considerate, tolerant and willing to contribute positively to the wider community.
Work hard
We firmly believe in a disruption free learning environment and as such we have established nine core routines which form the basis of our academic day. A knowledge-rich curriculum, built on ‘powerful knowledge,’ underpins our teaching and learning principles. We offer a traditional approach to teaching and learning following evidence-based research by Rosenshine and Teach Like A Champion (TLAC) which lead to inspiring and stimulating lessons. Our enrichment provision aims to take learning outside the classroom and we offer an extensive range of extra-curricular activities including sporting activities, residential visits and educational experiences.
Safeguarding is at the heart of what we do and we recognise the challenges that our pupils face. Therefore, we have a dedicated pastoral team with a Head of Year and Pastoral Co-ordinator for each year group and a ‘Wellbeing’ team including our school therapy dog.
Be kind
Ernulf Academy is a friendly and supportive school, which prides itself on treating everyone as individuals and having a ‘family’ atmosphere. We teach our pupils empathy and respect, and we have a zero tolerance to bullying. A scholarly approach is at our core but enabling our pupils to have a holistic education, preparing them for life in the 21st century and becoming global citizens is just as important.
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