13 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    September 2026

  • Closing date

    10 May 2026 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    27 April 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

£32,916.00 - £51,048.00 + TLR

SENDCO job summary

The role in a nutshell

The SENDCo at Willowfield Academy provides strategic leadership and expert oversight of special educational needs and disabilities provision within a specialist SEND setting. Working as a key member of the school’s wider leadership team and in close partnership with the Principal, the postholder will drive high‑quality inclusive practice, robust graduated support and effective implementation of Education, Health and Care Plans.

 

You will ensure that all pupils access an ambitious, coherent and responsive educational offer that enables strong academic, social and emotional progress and supports positive transitions beyond school. To achieve this, you will work collaboratively with staff, families and external agencies, supporting and challenging practice to secure consistently high standards. A central part of the role is ensuring rigorous monitoring, evaluation and quality assurance of SEND provision, safeguarding practice and statutory compliance, so that provision remains effective, inclusive and aligned to pupil needs.

 

The candidate

The ideal candidate will, in collaboration with the Senior Leadership Team, play a key role in determining the strategic development of the SEND policy and provision in the school in order to raise the achievement of pupils with SEND.

 

The SENDCO will also take day-to-day responsibility for the operation of the SEND policy and coordination of the provision made for individual pupils with SEND, working closely with the Senior Leadership Team, staff, parents and carers and other schools/academies in the Trust as well as external agencies.

We welcome applications from everyone who believes they meet the expectations of the role regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith, or disability. To ensure that our staff composition is representative of the communities we serve, applications from groups who are currently under-represented in education including people with disabilities and people from minority ethnic backgrounds are particularly encouraged.  


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.

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