SENDCO

Grove Road Primary School, Tring, Hertfordshire, HP23 5PD

23 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Feb 2026 (ideally)

• Closing date

  5 November 2025 at 11am

• Date listed

  13 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £53,198.00 Annually (FTE) L1

SENDCO job summary

SENDCo (Maternity Cover)

About the role

• Full time, maternity cover (1-year fixed term) with scope to become permanent
• Leadership Pay Scale
• Start date, ideally February 2026

Grove Road Primary School is a large 2 form entry primary school that sits at the heart of the local community in Tring. We want to grow and develop leadership capacity by recruiting someone who is keen to develop their school leadership skills. This is a full-time role with leadership terms and conditions. Job description and person specification are attached.

If you are:

- a talented teacher with a positive and optimistic outlook

- resilient in the face of challenges and setbacks

- willing to take risks and learn from the outcomes

- someone who enjoys supporting children to learn and have the ability to take them beyond their own capabilities

- someone who enjoys working with and contributing to a team

…then we would really like to meet you and explain why Grove Road should be the next step in your career journey.

We are particularly keen to recruit a teacher with SEND background or experience. The ideal candidate will be working to achieve, or already have, their SENDCo qualification. We are looking for someone dynamic and enthusiastic. The right candidate will have a robust understanding of school improvement and a passion for inclusion. The role involves working closely with the Head of Inclusion and her Team.

Although non-class based, the role will include some teaching responsibilities. Ideally, the role will start after February half term but there may be some flexibility for a later start.

Grove Road benefits from being part of a small Multi-Academy Trust (The Ridgeway Learning Partnership). This is a 3-19 MAT with 2 primary schools and a secondary school, which offers skills sharing and transition expertise across the age range.

The RLP enjoys close and collaborative working making us a dynamic and successful MAT. We work very closely with our partner schools in the Trust, offering bespoke opportunities for professional development and cross-school collaboration.

The Ridgeway Learning Partnership values their staff and are working hard to support staff well-being.

We currently offer:

- - Wellbeing teams in each school focused on ensuring the staff are well looked after

- - Professional development both in this school and further afield to ensure career development

- - Access to an Employee Assistance Programme

- - Counsellors and Wellbeing Leads

- - Discounted membership for the Tring Sports Centre

Grove Road Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; qualifications; identity (including online check) and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two references.

If you have lived outside the UK within the last 5 years, you will be required to provide a Certificate of Good Conduct or a police certificate from the country/countries you have resided in. Kindly note that this is at the expense of the candidate, as well as any costs involved for translating into English.

Visits to the school are strongly encouraged. Further information can also be found on our school website. Please contact Mandy Lyons for further details and to arrange a visit.

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

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

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 Grove Road Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 454 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Grove Road Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/grove-road-primary-school-tring

Just 10 minutes up the A41 from Hemel Hempstead, Grove Road is a successful, 2 form entry, primary school in the heart of the Tring countryside. We are looking for dynamic and enthusiastic teachers to join our talented team. Now part of a local Multi-Academy Trust, we can offer exciting learning opportunities as well as excellent induction and good career development.

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