SENDCo

What skills and experience we're looking for

Nicholas Chamberlaine School is seeking a committed and highly effective SENDCo to play a key role in strengthening our inclusive practice and ensuring that every student, regardless of need, can thrive.

This is an exciting opportunity for a practitioner who combines strong SEND expertise with the drive to make a tangible difference to students’ outcomes. You will be a visible and credible presence across the school, supporting colleagues, students, and families with clarity, care, and high expectations.

The Role

Working closely with the Senior Leadership Team, the SENDCo will support the strategic and operational delivery of SEND provision across the school.

You will play a central role in ensuring that systems are robust, provision is high quality, and that all students with SEND are supported to achieve their full potential.

The successful candidate will

Provide Confident Support and Leadership Support the day-to-day organisation of SEND provision, ensuring that systems are implemented consistently and effectively across departments.

Strengthen Teaching and Learning Work with teachers to ensure high-quality adaptive teaching, translating SEND strategies into impactful classroom practice.

Develop and Support Staff Contribute to the development and deployment of Teaching Assistants, supporting high expectations and effective practice.

Collaborate with Purpose Work closely with pastoral teams, subject leaders, families, and external agencies to ensure coordinated and effective support for students.

Champion Inclusion Promote a culture where every student is known, supported, and challenged, modelling an unwavering belief in their potential.

Our Context

Nicholas Chamberlaine School is part of the Griffin Schools Trust and is committed to providing an inclusive education rooted in strong relationships and high expectations.

We are focused on ensuring that all students, particularly those who are disadvantaged or have additional needs, are supported to succeed through high-quality teaching, clear systems, and targeted intervention. The SENDCo will play a vital role in driving this work forward.

What we are looking for

• Experience of working with students with SEND is essential
• A strong understanding of inclusive classroom practice
• The ability to work collaboratively with staff, families, and external agencies
• A commitment to high expectations and improving outcomes for vulnerable students

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The SENDCo qualification, although desirable, is not essential; however, experience of working with students with SEND is essential. Full support will be provided to achieve the National Award for SEN Coordination.

In Return,

We Offer

• A strong and supportive school community with a clear moral purpose
• A leadership team committed to professional growth and continuous improvement
• The opportunity to shape and strengthen SEND provision across the school
• Full support to achieve the SENDCo qualification

We are looking for someone who notices the students who need us most, who is relentless in improving provision, and who ensures that no student is overlooked.

This role would suit a practitioner who combines ambition with compassion and is ready to contribute meaningfully to whole-school improvement.

What the school offers its staff

Nicholas Chamberlaine School is committed to challenging educational and social disadvantage and aims to instil in students the ability to think critically and creatively.

The experience of working for Nicholas Chamberlaine School, and The Griffin Schools Trust, is unique. You will receive challenge and support to become expert in your field, develop the highest-level leadership skills and benefit from the wisdom of an extended family of supportive colleagues. There are excellent opportunities to work with peers and senior Trust staff on elements of our secondary strategy, to engage in leadership training as well as join a research-based Masters Programme.

We engage in a wide variety of Proud Traditions and experiences, including The Griffin Sports Festival, Arts Festival and Science Symposium, which give our community an exceptional breadth of experience.

. . . . . .Wellbeing. . . . . .

• We never use all of 1265
• We have reduced data drops to allow for more teaching and learning.
• We do not roll over the timetable in the summer term, instead we give staff time to work on core priorities and provide staff with essential CPD.
• We have disaggregated 2 teacher training days so that staff can take part in the Effective Formative Assessment programme twilight sessions.
• Curriculum planning is centralised within departments, allowing teachers to focus on adapting from base lessons, rather than having to create from scratch.
• We offer excellent professional development opportunities including NPQs and Trust funded Masters programmes, providing time in school to support.
• We encourage and support teachers to become exam markers.
• Departments are given at least 3 meeting per half term to share practice and subject knowledge.
• We minimise emails by having one Staff Comms per week and one MLT comms per week.
• All detentions are centralised to allow teachers more time to prep.
• We support staff to balance the needs of family life with part time and flexible contracts and paid/unpaid time off.
• All colleagues have free access to a modern gym on site.
• All colleagues can take advantage of the bike to work scheme.
• Weekly staff breakfasts on a Friday.
• Sharing good practice work with other departments.

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.