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SENDCO - Higham Lane North Academy
Higham Lane School, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0BJThis job expired on 27 January 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
Easter / flexible start date before September 2025
Closing date
27 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
10 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Full-time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPR/UPR + TLR1A £9,782
What skills and experience we're looking for
Key Requirements:
Applications are invited from suitably qualified, highly effective, and experienced individuals. The successful candidate will need to show that they can transform the lives of children with SEND needs through exciting and innovative leadership.
As SENDCO for Higham Lane North Academy, you will have a unique opportunity to be the founding SENDCO. You will also benefit immensely from the SEND support and network that is especially available from our Trust.
The SENDCO, under the direction of the Headteacher, will:
- Determine the strategic leadership and development of special educational needs (SEN) policy and provision in the school and SRP by implementing the SEND Code of Practice and Equality Act
- Ensure the School meets all its statutory duties in relation to the education and care of students on the SEND register
- Be responsible for day-to-day operation of the SEN policy and co-ordination of specific provision and resources, to support individual pupils with SEN or a disability which enables students who require access to support for learning achieve high standards
- Lead on the strategic leadership and development of the SRP (Specialist Resource Provision)
- Provide professional guidance to colleagues, working closely with staff, parents, and other agencies
- Advocate the needs of students with SEND
While the SENDCO will have responsibility for the oversight of provision for pupils with SEN or a disability, class teachers will hold responsibility for the day-to-day education and support of pupils within their classroom.
What the school offers its staff
At Higham Lane North Academy, our staff are our most precious resource. We are committed to offering you:
- A supportive, collaborative working environment that places staff workload and wellbeing at the heart of all working practices.
- A clear behaviour and praise policy that enables all teachers to teach, and all pupils to learn effectively with a highly visible and supportive senior leadership team. This includes a centralized detention system, ensuring that you are fully supported with your practice.
- A commitment to an ambitious, broad and balanced knowledge curriculum that is highly considerate of teacher workload and wellbeing, particularly around planning, assessment and feedback.
- Research-based teaching and learning practice and strategies developed with workload and wellbeing in mind. Alongside this you will work within an environment that has a genuine passion and enthusiasm for teaching and learning that will enable you to thrive and flourish within the classroom.
- Weekly CPD opportunities with a careful balance between whole-school, subject and personal priorities to be even more effective.
- Opportunities to obtain professional qualifications and develop your career over the coming years in a growing school. We will provide bespoke career stage training such as NPQH and ELP.
- The opportunity to work with a highly experienced, effective, forward-thinking and ambitious senior leadership and Trust team.
- A supportive senior leadership and trust team that will regularly seek your feedback to hear your views on what is going well, and how we can be even more effective, giving you control over your work practice and contributions.
- The opportunity to work collaboratively with other schools within our trust, particularly with Higham Lane School and Oak Wood Primary and Oak Wood Secondary Schools.
Employee Support Schemes:
- Subsidised eye care for extended VDU users
- A Gym Membership Scheme
- A Cycle to Work Scheme
- An Employee Assistance Programme, providing practical and emotional support
- An Employee Benefits Scheme, offering discounts on everyday essentials
- A Health Cash Plan benefit, providing reimbursements for various health-related expenses, including dental treatments, optical care, physiotherapy and more.
Further information about the job
Please be aware that this role is at Central England Academy Trust's brand-new secondary school, Higham Lane North Academy, opening in September 2025.
Higham Lane North Academy is set to open with up to five forms of entry (150 places) in Year 7. This state-of-the-art school and community resource is at the new, Milby Meadows neighbourhood on Upper Farm Drive, Nuneaton Warwickshire, CV11 6YN. It will grow in line with the local need for additional secondary school places until reaching full capacity as a 920-pupil school. The school will include a Specialist Resource Provision (SRP) with up to 20 places available by 2030.
How to Apply:
Please complete the Application Form, as well as the Equality Details Form, that you will find on the school’s website (www.hlna.co.uk)and email them tojobs@hlna.co.uk, indicating in the message title the post you are applying for.
If you would like to have a chat about this post, please contact Kirstie Robinson, Headteacher Designate, on 024 7638 8123. The closing date for applications ismidday, Monday 27th January 2025, with a proposed interview date of Monday 3rd February 2025.
Please address the following points when completing the ‘Additional Information’ section of the application form:
- why you feel your personal qualities and experience make you an excellent candidate for this position;
- your specific ideas about what you can do as SENDCO to ensure that SEND pupils at Higham Lane North Academy are safe, happy and make excellent progress.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and will be taken through the Trust's vetting procedure.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks:
Childcare disqualification
DBS
Medical
Online and social media
Prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must let us know about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Higham Lane School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1477 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Higham Lane School website
- Email address
- jobs@hlna.co.uk
- Phone number
- 02476388123
Higham Lane School and Sixth Form College is a heavily over-subscribed, 11-18, comprehensive academy with just under 1500 students, set on an attractive site on the Warwickshire-Leicestershire border, easily accessible due to excellent road, train and bus connections. The school and sixth form college forms part of the Central England Academy Trust and schools within our trust work closely together, bringing many benefits to both students and staff.
We are delighted that our most recent Ofsted inspection in May 2025 confirmed that Higham Lane School has taken effective action to maintain the high standards identified in our previous Outstanding inspection. Inspectors praised our warm, respectful and aspirational school culture, where pupils thrive both academically and personally. They highlighted our ambitious, knowledge-rich curriculum, exceptional sixth-form provision, and the strong outcomes achieved by our students. The report commended our students’ excellent behaviour, attendance, and engagement, as well as the inclusive support we provide for disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND. Our commitment to personal development was also recognised, with a wide range of enrichment opportunities helping to shape confident, compassionate young people. With an Achievement 8 score of 52.05 in 2025, this is significantly above the national average of 45.9 from 2024. Higham Lane remains one of the highest-achieving non-selective comprehensive schools in Warwickshire. We are also proud to hold World Class Schools status, awarded in July 2021, reflecting our continued drive for excellence in all areas of school life.
We are also delighted to have achieved equally as impressive A level results in our Sixth Form with 30.7% A*-A and 61.5% A*-B, an average grade of B- and a Value Added score of +0.27 (2024), making Higham Lane one of the top performing Sixth Forms in Warwickshire. We are excited by the opportunities which our recent merger with the Central England Academy Trust will bring us and are also delighted that the Department for Education has given the Trust permission to open a new secondary Free School, Higham Lane North Academy, opening in 2025 and this is already providing exciting opportunities for staff development, recruitment and retention.
Our school has a strong ethos based on mutual respect between students and staff and very clear expectations regarding students’ effort and behaviour. We enjoy an excellent reputation with parents/carers and are always over-subscribed. You will find a happy, caring and purposeful environment at Higham Lane. Students get on exceptionally well, both with each other and with our staff, who take pride in working here. Our students are encouraged to do their very best in every aspect of their lives and to reach the highest standards, irrespective of their ability. We encourage them to “Be the best you can be”, by working hard, being kind and taking responsibility.
At Higham Lane, our staff are our most precious resource. We are committed to offering you:
excellent continuous professional development,
reduced workload,
behaviour for learning that empowers teachers to teach and students to learn,
a range of imaginative approaches to ensure staff wellbeing,
opportunities to work across the MAT in a successful and growing trust.
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