Specialist SEND Teacher and Provision Lead
Southfields Primary School, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE2 8PU15 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2027
Closing date
14 October 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
29 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- Head of year or phase
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time, part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L01 - L04
What skills and experience we're looking for
A rare opportunity to be part of something new
Southfields Primary School is looking for an exceptional Specialist SEND Teacher & Provision Lead to join our team and play a key role in the development of our new specialist SEND provision.
This is a rare and exciting opportunity for an experienced teacher with a genuine passion for SEND to join us at the beginning of an important new chapter for our school.
The successful candidate will be a class-based teacher, with responsibility for their own class within our specialist provision. Alongside providing high-quality, highly individualised teaching and learning, they will take on additional leadership responsibilities within the provision and work closely with our Headteacher and Deputy Headteacher/SENDCo to ensure that our vision is translated into exceptional everyday practice for children.
We are looking for someone who loves teaching, wants to remain close to children and classroom practice, and is excited by the opportunity to combine excellent specialist teaching with leadership responsibility.
How often do you get the opportunity to be there from the beginning?
Joining our new provision that is due to open in September 2027 offers something very different from stepping into an established role.
You will have the opportunity to contribute to the development of the provision from its earliest stages – helping to establish its culture, routines, learning environment and approaches to teaching and learning. Working alongside colleagues to create a provision where children feel safe, understood, valued and able to succeed.
We want our specialist provision to be ambitious for every child. We believe that SEND should never mean lowering expectations. Instead, we want to understand each child's individual starting point and provide the communication, relationships, regulation, adaptations and carefully structured learning they need to make meaningful progress.
About the role
As our Specialist SEND Teacher and Provision Lead, you will have responsibility for your own class and will plan, deliver and evaluate high-quality learning that is responsive to children's individual needs and EHCP outcomes.
Alongside your teaching responsibilities, you will provide day-to-day leadership within the specialist provision, modelling excellent practice, supporting colleagues and helping to develop consistent approaches which enable children to flourish.
You will work collaboratively with the Deputy Headteacher/SENDCo, other teachers, support staff, families and external professionals. You will understand that successful specialist provision depends upon excellent teamwork and strong relationships with the children and families we serve.
We are looking for someone who:
- is an excellent and reflective classroom practitioner with high expectations for children with SEND;
- has strong knowledge and experience of working with children with significant and/or complex special educational needs;
- has particular expertise or experience in areas such as autism, communication and interaction needs and complex learning needs;
- understands how communication, sensory processing, emotional regulation and relationships can influence children's access to learning;
- can plan and deliver a highly differentiated and individualised curriculum while maintaining ambitious expectations;
- understands and can contribute effectively to the implementation and review of EHCP provision and outcomes;
- can lead by example, model excellent specialist practice and support the development of other adults;
- understands that behaviour is communication and approaches children with curiosity, consistency and compassion;
- values positive relationships with parents and carers and recognises their expertise in understanding their children;
- is enthusiastic about contributing to a new provision and is comfortable working collaboratively as it develops; and
- shares our commitment to creating an inclusive school in which every child experiences belonging, achievement and success.
What the school offers its staff
What we can offer you
This really is an opportunity to help create something special.
You will join a school with a strong commitment to inclusion and a well-established inclusion team, where SEND is understood as a whole-school responsibility.
You will have the opportunity to develop your specialist knowledge and leadership experience while remaining an active classroom practitioner, working alongside experienced SEND and inclusion colleagues and contributing to the development of a provision from its earliest stages.
We can offer you supportive senior and inclusion leadership, opportunities for relevant professional development and the chance to make a significant and lasting difference to children and families.
Most importantly, you will join a team that is ambitious and passionate about what children with SEND can achieve and committed to creating a provision in which children are known, understood and celebrated as individuals.
Come and meet us
Choosing the right school is important, and we warmly encourage prospective candidates to visit Southfields Primary School before applying.
Come and meet our team, see our school, and hear more about our plans and vision for the new specialist provision.
For further information or to arrange a visit, please contact Mrs Dale – 01733 562873. Application packs will be available after your visit.
Closing date: Wednesday 14th October 2026 12 noon
Interviews: Tuesday 20th October 2026
Start date: January 2027
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)About Southfields Primary School
- Organisation type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- Size
- 540 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- vacancies@southfields.peterborough.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01733 562 873
The aim at Southfields Primary School is to provide a first class education and exceptional care for children.
We work hard to involve families in all aspects of life within the school and are proud of our community work. We are a forward thinking school with traditional family values.
Our facilities are excellent and we are proud of our work on the curriculum which underpins English, Mathematics and the Sciences. We celebrate creativity and value the contribution that the Arts, Multi Media, Computing, Music, Eco, Sports and Languages add to broaden education for our pupils.
Arranging a visit to Southfields Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email vacancies@southfields.peterborough.sch.uk.
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