SENDCO
Outwood Academy Danum, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN2 5QD6 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
18 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
9 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- SENDCo (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator)
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership 5-9
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint a suitably qualified SENDCo or an aspiring professional willing to achieve the National SENCO Award. This is a key leadership role where you will play a pivotal part in shaping the future of our students, enhancing their life chances, and ensuring they thrive both inside and outside the classroom.
You will need the knowledge and drive to support our SEND pupils by ensuring needs are identified; that staff are equipped to support those needs and barriers are removed.
As the SENDCo, you will lead an inclusion team at the centre of school. At Outwood Academy Danum we pride ourselves in ensuring barriers to learning are overcome and offer opportunities for our students to experience success and improve life chances. In this role you will be a senior member of staff delivering quality adaptive teaching to a mixed cohort of students.
What We Offer:
- The opportunity to be part of a vibrant academy at a pivotal stage in its development that values pride, kindness and resilience.
- A supportive and ambitious team committed to continuous improvement.
- A chance to transform the life chances of young people in our care.
What We're Looking For:
- A qualified SENDCo or someone eager to achieve the National SENCO Award
- A dedicated and ambitious professional with a passion for inclusion and student success
- Someone ready to add value both academically and through enriching the wider school community
- An inspirational leader who cares deeply about students' success and wellbeing
- If you're ready to make a real impact and help shape the future of our academy, we would love to hear from you.
Your team will consist of teaching assistants, admin and additional Inclusion staff. Our structures work under a 'Deeps' model in which Deep Support works with Deep Learning, and Deep Experience to support the learning and progress of all students. This role will lend itself to enable you to feel part of the Outwood family and work with the amazing young people in our setting. Needless to say you will be someone who is driven, proactive, and strategic. If this describes you, then you are just what we are looking for. As a member of the Outwood family you will experience a number of opportunities to work with stakeholders across the education industry and develop your SEND knowledge through our Trust networking opportunities. Your work environment will be welcoming and you will have access to all the appropriate resources needed for the role.
Outwood Academy Danum places students at the centre of everything it does, with a focus on creating a culture of success, in this role you will support the strategic delivery of provisions and deployment of staff. Staff and students alike experience a sense of belonging and we would welcome you to apply if this aligns with your own core principals. We would welcome you to come and visit our academy so you can see how we 'Raise standards and transform lives', please contact Holly Benson on h.benson@outwood.com for an informal discussion, or to arrange a visit.
What the school offers its staff
Chief Executive Officer: Lee Wilson
Principal: Mandy Crane
We are an Ofsted Good rated, 11-18 academy, with a thriving sixth form and a campus undergoing a transformation, based in the friendly, South Yorkshire town of Doncaster.
We are proud to say that our recent OFSTED inspection in 2024 cited that the school is a 'Good' school, identifying how the school is an 'inclusive school' where 'pupils of every background are provided with the opportunities they need to be successful.' We value our staff highly, and have established a truly supportive environment where staff training and well-being is at the heart of all we do. We are focused on creating a culture of success, a positive climate for learning, and increased attainment, achievement and social and emotional development of our pupils is key so that they can navigate an ever-changing world with confidence and resilience.
We are proud to have been awarded Silver Status by the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health Award and to have received the IQM Award recommended as Centre of Excellence for Inclusion, which highlights our commitment to inclusion. We have also recently achieved our Eco Schools award along with our Leading the Way award for meeting all eight Gatsby Benchmarks to support employability for our students.
We work hard to ensure we reduce workload on staff, allowing more time in the classroom to put our vision of students first, raising standards and transforming lives into practice.
All academies within the Outwood Family have gained the IQM Inclusive Schools Award with 18 having Centre of Excellence status and one holding Flagship status.
If you share our vision, join our family.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Outwood Academy Danum
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1167 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Outwood Academy Danum website
- Email address
- j.birkinshaw@danum.outwood.com
We are a large 11-18 comprehensive school with a thriving sixth form. Outwood Academy Danum became part of the Outwood family of schools in September 2016, in a recent Ofsted inspection we were graded good and we are still improving to become outstanding. This is an opportunity for you to join us on this journey.
As the highest performing Family of Schools in the North of England, Outwood Grange Academies Trust is transforming the futures of countless young people.
Arranging a visit to Outwood Academy Danum
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email j.birkinshaw@danum.outwood.com.
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