SENDCo

Orchard Park Community Primary School, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB4 2GR

55 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  26 April 2026 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  2 March 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Main Professional Grade plus SEN allowance
• Additional allowances:

  Main Professional Grade plus SEN allowance

SENDCo job summary

Our Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENDCo) is a valuable and key member of our team, playing a complex and specialist role within our learning community. This role will give the successful candidate the privilege of working with our small, dedicated inclusion team and supporting our children with additional needs. Passion, drive, and determination are required to make a difference to our pupils. As well as an ability to lead on policy and practice, in conjunction with key stakeholders.

This important role will include overseeing targeted provision for children with additional needs, vulnerabilities, or barriers to learning. It will include the preparation of statutory paperwork, making appropriate referrals, working alongside professionals, supporting parents and families, as well as supporting school staff with quality first teaching and ensuring appropriate adaptations within the classroom are made.

We are a school that is:

• Fully inclusive
• Passionate about meeting the needs of all learners
• Ambitious and aspirational
• Able to make a difference

We are looking for someone who:

• Is an inspirational and skilled classroom teacher and teacher of students with SEND
• Champions inclusion and is passionate about supporting young people with identified SEND
• Has a clear understanding of how young people with identified SEND can be supported to achieve in the mainstream classroom
• Will embrace our highly supportive, professional approach within our brilliant community where staff, parents, and pupils work in close conjunction

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. We want you to see our school in action and we want to share our ambitions for the future and how you can help us with these. Please contact the school office to organise a visit. We welcome all questions, no matter how big or small.

Orchard Park Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The appointment is subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS check. Online checks will be made for all candidates.

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 Orchard Park Community Primary School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 192 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Orchard Park Community Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/orchard-park-community-primary-school

Orchard Park Community Primary School is a small school situated on the northern boundary of the City of Cambridge in the growing Orchard Park development. We are fortunate to have a new beautifully designed school which is well equipped and surrounded by open play space. Our school was recently reaffirmed as 'Good' by Ofsted (March 2017) and is a unique and special place to work.

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