Y6 Teacher at Somerlea Park Juniors and SENCo
Somerlea Park Junior School, Alfreton, Derbyshire, DE55 4JE14 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2026
Closing date
27 November 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
12 November 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
Full-time equivalent salary
- £32,916.00 - £45,352.00 Annually (Actual) The salary quoted is MPS pay range. This role would also attract 2 x TLR2 @ £3527 each TLR - The role is also SENCo at Somerlea Park Juniors and Somercotes Infant and Nursery School
Y6 Teacher at Somerlea Park Juniors and SENCo job summary
Somercotes Infant School and Somerlea Park Junior School are looking to appoint a dedicated, compassionate and pro-active SENCo to join our team. This is a key role supporting pupils and families across both schools, helping to ensure every child receives the education they deserve through SEND Adaptations and quality first teaching. (SPJTE4)
The post is primarily based at Somerlea Park Juniors with 0.8 teaching commitment in a Key Stage 2 class.
There is a minimum full day release to fulfil the SENCo role as described in the job description and person specification.
Somerlea Park Junior School is an average sized, inclusive and happy school situated in Somercotes, Alfreton. The school prides itself on their ethos of, Be Ready, Be Kind, Work Hard.
Aspiration, Communication and Diversity drive the curriculum to ensure all children receive the quality of education they need to be prepared for a life in Modern Britain.
We are looking for a SENCo that can maintain and build upon the successes of the here and now, whilst having the vision, enthusiasm and talent to seek out new opportunities for continuing to drive school improvement forward at Somerlea Park into the future.
Somerlea Park currently has around 140 children, from Year Three through to Year Six, with varying levels of need and attainment. When leaving the school, the majority of pupils transfer to Swanwick Hall School. Somerlea Park was rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted in the last inspection in 2022. The school provides a broad and varied curriculum, offering all children rich opportunities to enjoy learning and achieve to the very best of their abilities. The school is about to begin a transformation, with the commencement of a new school building. The school works closely with its feeder school, Somercotes Infants’ which is located a short distance away, sharing subject leadership and SENCo roles.
The school is part of the Learners’ Trust, which is a medium-sized MAT comprising of seventeen primary schools, one special school, over three-thousand five-hundred children and spanning the three Local Authority regions of Rotherham, Derbyshire and Derby City. The successful candidate will benefit from peer-to-peer support, access to the SENCo network and support structures that the Trust facilitates within schools, across schools and through the strong links it has with external partners, most notably through the Learners First School’s Partnership.
Context
The descriptions below of our ‘why’, ‘how’ and ‘what’ define the work we are developing as a Trust. They are an aspiration, and we are always striving to achieve them.
We ensure our ‘why’, ‘how’ and ‘what’ hold us to account for the work we do.
Why do we exist?
Our purpose is to ensure every LEARNER has choices about their future
- Our first job is to support and extend learning for pupils to provide them with the skills and knowledge to make those choices.
- Our second job is to make sure no child is ignored, no family is unsupported and no life is wasted, by providing intervention at the earliest opportunity.
- Our responsibility to education is to provide an environment where practitioners can collaborate, learn from each other, take risks and reflect
How will we act?
We will use our purpose as a driver for our culture, ensuring we are;
Connected (sharing information openly, broadly and deliberately)
Helpful (embracing servant leadership and use initiative to solve the problem)
Organised (employing efficient strategies and trust colleagues to deliver)
Informed (asking coaching questions to understand what is happening)
Candid (disagreeing openly and compassionately)
Effective (only retaining our best elements and looking for continuous improvement)
Simple (avoiding complexity and increasing clarity)
What is our strategy?
We will use our culture to ensure the work of the Trust;
Focuses on creating capacity (time and resources) for schools
Ensures support is agile, providing intervention at the earliest opportunity
Supports schools to employ and invest in the best educators for children
Seeks continuous improvement and disruptive innovation
This is a fantastic opportunity for the right person.
Due to this post having access to children and/or vulnerable adults, the successful candidate will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Somerlea Park Junior School
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 129 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Somerlea Park Junior School website
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