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SENDCo
Lift Hazelwood, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN5 8DR7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2026
Closing date
26 May 2026 at 7:55am
Date listed
19 May 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
Full-time equivalent salary
- £32916 - £51048 per annum
SENDCo job summary
Salary: M1 (£32,916)- UPS3 (£51,048) + SEND TLR + well-being cash plan + pension scheme + additional Lift Schools
School: Lift Hazelwood, Stokesay Drive, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN5 8DR
Hours: Full time
Contract type: Permanent
Start date: September 2026
Please note we will interview candidates as soon as we have suitable applications.
Your new school
Lift Hazelwood is part of Lift Schools, a MAT of 59 schools which allows you access to the best training programmes available as well as more internal opportunities. Lift Hazelwood is a popular one-form entry primary school with an attached nursery, situated in West Swindon, located just off J16 of the M4. Pupils, and staff, benefit from a modern, purpose built school building with extensive grounds. This welcoming school is over subscribed and is characterised by an ambitious, caring and inclusive environment where pupils feel a genuine sense of belonging. We are excited to be recruiting for a SENDCo, a perfect mix of teaching and SEND focus, ideal for an existing SENDCo or somebody with a passion and commitment to SEND.
Your new role
This role will be half teaching and half SENDCo, the SENDCo responsibilities are;
- Establishing a strategic overview and work collaboratively with stakeholders to coordinate the provision for Children and Young People(CYP) with SEND across the school.
- Ensuring SEND provision is fully integrated with the whole school approach to both teaching and curriculum, and monitor the effectiveness of this.
- Providing professional guidance to colleagues and work with staff, parents, and other agencies to ensure pupils with SEND receive effective support and high quality teaching.
- Identifying, plan for and review the needs of CYP with SEND and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve agreed outcomes.
- Ensuring the school keeps the records of all pupils with SEND fully maintained and up to date.
- Gathering, collating, critically analysing, interpreting and evaluating qualitative and quantitative data. Use this to inform SEND practice and processes to ensure best outcomes for CYP with SEND.
- Managing systems to implement and maintain the school's adherence to SEND statutory regulations e.g. production of SEND Information Report, co-production of Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) for CYPs with SEND and annual reviews.
- Ensuring that all SEND funding streams and resources are appropriately identified, maximised and utilised effectively in order to meet the needs of CYP with SEND.
- Maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of national and local legislation, guidance, and initiatives which may affect the schools practice relating to SEND.
Who is Lift Schools?
Lift Schools is made up of 59 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 33,000 pupils across the country. We believe education can transform lives - and we want every child in our schools to achieve their full potential.
How we support you
At Lift Schools, we believe talent drives performance. We offer you:
Career development and training: Access a wide range of statutory and developmental training to boost your career.
Generous benefits: From your pension plan to healthcare and financial support, we've got you covered.
Lifestyle perks: Enjoy discounted gym memberships and travel deals.
Please don't wait until the closing date to apply as we will review applications as we receive them.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.
Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
Lift Schools embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and there is a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Lift Hazelwood
- School type
- Academies, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 261 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Lift Hazelwood website
We are a Primary School with an attached Nursery, situated in West Swindon, Wiltshire located just off J16 of the M4. There are currently approximately 261 pupils on roll and pupils benefit from a modern, purpose built school building with extensive grounds. The School, rated ‘good’ in its recent (2023) Ofsted inspection, is at an exciting stage in its journey and is committed to securing the future of Lift Hazelwood as a centre of excellence and innovation, where talent is nurtured. We serve a fantastically rich and varied catchment area.
We are extremely proud of all that goes on here. The children at Hazelwood are supported by enthusiastic and dedicated staff, governors and parents; and we strive to maintain high standards and excitement about learning.
Ofsted commented that the “good quality of teaching leads to pupils” increasingly good progress. High expectations have helped to raise pupils’ achievement. Teachers and assistants skilfully foster good working relationships with pupils
Our Curriculum
Here at Lift Hazelwood we provide a creative curriculum based around the Cornerstones Curriculum, a nationally recognised approach for delivering outstanding learning opportunities for children.
The Cornerstones Curriculum is a creative and thematic approach to learning that is mapped to the 2014 Primary National Curriculum to ensure comprehensive coverage of national expectations. Our new curriculum will be delivered through Imaginative Learning Projects (ILPs) which will provide a rich menu of exciting and motivating learning activities that make creative links between all aspects of our children’s learning.
We believe children learn better when they are encouraged to use their imagination and apply their learning to engaging contexts. Our new curriculum will provide lots of learning challenges throughout the academic year that will require children to solve problems, apply themselves creatively and express their knowledge and understanding effectively across the curriculum.
Cornerstones also provide a rigorous essential skills framework that outlines the end of year expectations in all subjects. These essential skills are tied to activities and are age related so that staff can track children’s progress and identify their individual learning needs.
Our Specialism and Awards
To view our achievements please click here
Ofsted
We are judged to be a 'good' school and we were last inspected in 2023. To view all our Ofsted reports please click here
Who is Lift Schools?
Lift Schools is made up of 57 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 33,000 pupils across the country. We believe education can transform lives – and we want every child in our schools to achieve their full potential.
Our mission:
We will provide an excellent education to every child, in every classroom, every day.
With excellent leadership and teaching in every school, we will help children go on to lead successful and happy lives.
We will work with others beyond our network to benefit more children and communities.
Development:
We are committed to developing all staff at all levels through high quality development opportunities, resources, and experiences that will support you on your professional learning journey with Lift Schools.
Lifestyle:
We champion agile/flexible working across the Trust to help our people achieve an optimal work/life balance.
Money:
All staff have access to our pension schemes (Local Government Pension Scheme and Teachers’ Pension Scheme). Everyone has free access to financial advice & support and can access a wide range of retail discounts through our Lift Schools Benefits scheme. We also offer Technology Loans to help with any big digital purchases.
Wellbeing:
We recognise that mental wellbeing is just as important as physical and have set up employee assistance programmes which offer free and confidential counselling 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our employees can access our health cash place scheme from BHSF.
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