Outwood Grange Academies Trust
Lead SENDCO
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Role: Lead SENDCo
Salary: L8 - L12 (£63,687 - £70,275 per annum)
Job type: Full-time, Permanent
Start date: ASAP
A Community Role with Real Influence
This is not a traditional SENDCo post.
We are seeking an experienced and values-driven Lead SENDCo to take on a community-led role across three Outwood academies: Ripon, Easingwold, Bydales, and Normanby (Middlesbrough). With Ripon as your base, your time will be strategically split across all three schools, enabling you to shape SEND provision at both academy and community level.
This role is for someone who wants to make a wider impact, developing people, practice, and provision.
The Purpose of the Role
At its heart, this role is about strengthening inclusive practice across a community of schools while maintaining operational SEND leadership in Outwood Academy Ripon.
Your work will focus on three core priorities:
A Community Led SEND Role
You will operate as the community SEND leader across Ripon, Easingwold, Bydales, and Normanby, ensuring strong collaboration, shared standards, and a coherent SEND offer across very different contexts.
These schools are intentionally different — rural, market town, coastal village, and neighbourhood — and this role exists to connect them, not standardise them. You will help each academy deliver inclusive excellence that meets its unique community needs while benefiting from shared expertise and support.
Developing SSPs and SEND Practice Across the Schools
A central focus of the role is the development and consistent implementation of SSP’s (Student Support Plans) across the three academies.
You will:
- Lead the strategic development of SSP practice
- Ensure high quality, meaningful, and impactful plans that support teachers to deliver Quality First Teaching
- Evaluate impact and refine provision to ensure students with SEND thrive academically, socially, and emotionally
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Growing People Through Supportive Leadership
This role places people development at its core. You will provide supportive line management, coaching, and CPD for:
- Assistant SENDCos
- SENDCos within the school community
- Inclusion and SEND teams
You will be a visible leader who builds confidence, capability, and consistency, modelling best practice, and creating space for others to grow into strong SEND leadership roles.
Your Base: Outwood Academy Ripon
Based at Outwood Academy Ripon, you will also fulfil the role of the designated SENDCo for the academy and be a member of the Senior Leadership Team. You will be timetabled for five teaching lessons, ensuring your leadership remains rooted in classroom practice.
At Ripon, you will join a driven and collaborative leadership team united by our vision of Students First. Inclusion is not an add-on here — it is fundamental to how we raise standards and transform lives.
Our Community: North Yorkshire & Redcar and Cleveland
Outwood Academy Ripon, Outwood Academy Easingwold, Outwood Academy Bydales, and Outwood Academy Normanby form a connected community of secondary schools across North Yorkshire and Redcar & Cleveland.
This role offers a breadth of experience rarely found in one post:
- Ripon – a historic market town, competing alongside a selective grammar school
- Easingwold – a rural academy serving a close-knit community
- Bydales – friendly, coastal village school.
- Normanby – a neighbourhood school with deep local roots in Middlesbrough
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Because these schools are at different points in their journey, the opportunity to make a meaningful impact is significant.
Why Join Outwood?
Outwood Grange Academies Trust is one of the largest and most established MATs in the country. Our scale allows us to invest heavily in:
- SEND leadership development
- Trust-wide CPD and networking
- Specialist support for vulnerable learners
You will also work closely with:
- Community Executive leadership
- Trust Strategic Leads for Inclusion and SEND
- SEND School Improvement Partners
Above all, you will be part of a Trust that is unapologetically focused on Students First, Raising Standards, and Transforming Lives.
Is This Role for You?
This role would suit an experienced SENDCo or Lead SENDCo who:
- Wants to work beyond a single school
- Is passionate about developing people as well as provision
- Values collaboration, coaching, and influence over compliance alone
- Believes inclusion leadership should be visible, practical, and human
To organise a walk-around or confidential conversation, please get in touch with Laura Eddery, Executive Principal via email l.eddery@outwood.com.
This role is subject to being closed early subject to suitable applications being received.
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