Specialist Intervention Team (SIT) Coordinator - Brunel School
Brunel School, Paignton, Devon, TQ3 2AL16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
17 May 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
27 March 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £32,203.00 Annually (FTE) £26,553 Actual (Term Time 39 weeks)
Specialist Intervention Team (SIT) Coordinator - Brunel School job summary
We’re looking for a skilled, motivated practitioner to help drive forward our therapeutic offer at Brunel School. If you’re ready to make a real impact on pupils’ communication, regulation and access to learning, this is your opportunity to step into a role where your expertise truly matters. Apply now and join a team committed to delivering high‑quality, child‑centred support every day.
About us:
Special Partnership Trust is dedicated to championing high‑quality SEND education across the Southwest. We are an ambitious, values‑driven organisation that believes in creating inclusive, supportive and empowering environments for both pupils and staff.
Brunel School is developing its therapeutic offer through the new Specialist Intervention Therapy (SIT) Team, and this role is central to embedding that model.
The Role:
As a Specialist Intervention Team Coordinator, you will play a key role in delivering and developing high‑quality therapeutic practice within Brunel School. Working closely with the Specialist Intervention Team Manager, in‑house therapists (SALT/OT) and the Senior Leadership Team, you will help implement a therapeutically informed model that supports pupils’ regulation, communication, sensory and physical needs.
Your work will directly support pupils’ access to learning, contribute to EHCP outcomes and strengthen the therapeutic culture across the school.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver individual and group therapeutic sessions under the direction of therapists
- Support pupils’ regulation, communication and sensory needs using evidence‑based approaches
- Develop learner profiles and help class teams implement therapy recommendations
- Contribute to screening processes, assessments and the development of therapy plans
- Provide modelling, advice and in‑class support to staff teams
- Maintain accurate records, evidence of progress and contribute to Annual Reviews
- Support the development of a total communication environment across the school
- Help maintain specialist spaces such as sensory rooms and therapeutic areas
- Prepare therapy and communication resources
- Attend multi‑agency meetings and work collaboratively with external professionals
- Deliver and attend specialist training, including manual handling
- Line manage and support teaching assistants where required
- Promote a positive, proactive and therapeutically informed culture across the school
About you
We are looking for someone who brings:
- Experience working with children with SEND in an educational setting
- Strong communication skills and confidence using communication aids
- Effective record‑keeping and good IT skills
- A proactive, reflective and resilient approach
- A genuine enthusiasm for learning and developing specialist skills
- The ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team
- Excellent organisational skills and high professional standards
Desirable experience includes: delivering therapies, leading teams, or using specialist approaches such as PECS, AAC, Intensive Interaction or sensory integration.
Ongoing CPD and training will be provided.
Our Total Reward Offer:
The Special Partnership Trust recognises the importance of developing a properly implemented People Strategy to underpin the overall strategic aims of the Trust.
Our People Strategy is designed to help us attract prospective high calibre candidates, as well as drive engagement, productivity and retention of our high performing and high potential employees. It reflects our belief in putting our people first. This does not mean putting our learners second. It is based on the philosophy that if we create a positive and rewarding work environment, if our staff feel motivated, well managed and well supported, they in turn will provide the best possible outcome for our learners.
We recognise that our total reward offer, has got to consist of more than just money. We seek to provide our staff with a diverse range of benefits that support their day to day needs both at work and outside of work. These include generous leave entitlements and pension scheme as well as access to health/wellbeing tools, training & development, career pathways and opportunities to ensure they feel valued.
Please visit the Special Partnership website, www.specialpartnership.org for further information about our Trust, or to learn more about our People Strategy and Benefits click here.
If you need the application form or any part of the recruitment process in a different format, please contact us directly at recruitment@specialpartnership.org and we will make the necessary adjustments.
Are you ready to make a lasting impact? Join us today.
Safeguarding:
The Special Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to the satisfactory completion of checks and references, including an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. In accordance with guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education; the Trust will undertake an online search of all shortlisted candidates.
Further information about the job
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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- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- School size
- 48 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
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