SENDCo Maternity Cover

Southend High School for Girls, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS2 4UZ

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  February 2026

• Closing date

  5 December 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  24 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £32,916.00 - £51,048.00 Annually (FTE)

SENDCo Maternity Cover job summary

One-year fixed-term contract

Required for February 2026

Start date, hours, and salary are negotiable and dependent on experience.

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated SENDCo to join the SHSG Team for a one-year fixed term maternity cover.

As SENDCo, you will play a key role in shaping a provision where inclusion is central to our ethos and pursuit of excellence. You will work closely with experienced colleagues to ensure that students with SEND are not only supported but encouraged to thrive. You will help ensure that all students, regardless of need or background, can access our ambitious curriculum and vibrant co-curricular programme. With guidance and support, you’ll contribute to a culture where personalised support and high expectations go hand in hand, and where every student is empowered to reach their potential.

We are looking for an excellent candidate who will:

• Lead the school’s SEND strategy, ensuring high-quality, inclusive support that enables all pupils to thrive and make strong progress.

• Ensure statutory compliance with the SEND Code of Practice and Equality Act, maintaining robust policies, EHCP processes, and accurate reporting.

• Champion inclusive teaching and learning by working with staff to embed adaptive, ambitious classroom practice across the curriculum.

• Develop staff expertise through effective professional development and managing the SEND Support Team to build whole-school capacity.

• Monitor outcomes and inclusion, using data to drive improvement, support smooth transitions, and ensure all SEND pupils access the full life of the school.

Requirements:

• Qualified Teacher Status

• SENDCo qualification

We can offer you:

• Highly motivated, curious, and industrious students

• A strong, highly qualified staff team with a family community spirit

• A commitment to ongoing professional development and staff wellbeing

• An environment which promotes innovation

Southend High School for Girls is a highly successful and oversubscribed girl’s grammar school, rated

‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted

We reserve the right to call applicants to interview, and appoint, prior to the closing date

All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check. This is a customer-facing role needing fluent spoken English.

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

All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS 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.

About Southend High School for Girls

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1253 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Southend High School for Girls website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/southend-high-school-for-girls

Southend High School for Girls is a grammar school with academy status with approximately 1260 students including a sixth form of 360 students.
The school is situated on Southchurch Boulevard in the east of the City of Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
Southend High School for Girls is built on strong traditions and values and has a long and illustrious history of over 100 years of educating the brightest minds in the country. At the core of our philosophy, we believe that students should be safe, happy and successful.
Our team of staff are all experts in their fields and are passionate about the education and well-being of our young people. We are unashamedly ambitious for them and aspire to create a pervasive ethos of high expectations and promote discipline and good behaviour in school life.
Our moral purpose is to ensure that our students experience a rigorous and stretching academic education on the one hand, and outstanding wider personal development on the other. We believe that our students should develop high self-efficacy and self-belief and be confident and fearless – demonstrating resilience in the face of challenges.
Being a member of a high-performing grammar school demands hard work, fortitude and a can-do attitude; participation, energy and commitment are our non-negotiables – but the results are well worth it.
If Southend High School for Girls sounds like the sort of place where you would like to work – and where you feel you could make a major contribution to its continuing success – then we would love to hear from you.

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