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SENDCO Vacancy – The Place Independent School
Our mission is clear: every young person deserves to thrive. At The Place Independent School, we’re seeking an exceptional, passionate, and leadership-focused SENDCO to transform the futures of students with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs, and complex vulnerabilities.
This isn’t just a role—it’s an opportunity to lead inclusion, champion safeguarding, drive whole-school practice, and ensure every student reaches their potential. At our nurturing, trauma-informed community (serving both primary and secondary sites), you’ll shape a culture where young people feel seen, heard, and fully supported.
About the Role
As our head of SEND provision, you’ll provide strategic leadership to deliver: ✔Dynamic, evidence-based SEND support ✔A safe, accountable environment aligning with SEND Code of Practice, Independent School Standards, and KCSIE guidance ✔Tailored interventions fostering academic, social, and emotional progress
We need a child advocate who can deliver high standards while collaborating across school leadership teams, families, and external agencies to transform lives. If you thrive in an ambitious, nurturing environment, and love the art of personalising provision for diverse learners, we want to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities
SEND Leadership & Strategy
• Lead, coordinate and quality-assure SEND provision across Primary and Secondary sites. • Drive a strategic inclusion vision, aligning with Ofsted standards and code of practice regulations. • Develop personalised provisions, ensure EHCP implementation, and monitor progress via data-informed reviews. • Ensure compliance with safeguarding standards, KCSIE, and independent school requirements.
Safeguarding & School Standards
• Act as safeguarding leader, ensuring prompt, effective response to concerns (including Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) oversight). • Foster a culture of shared accountability for safeguarding, ensuring uniform visibility and proactive learning. • Collaborate with authoritative services (local authorities, MCA & SEN teams) to optimise support for vulnerable learners.
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Inclusion & Trauma-Infused Practice
• Champion trauma-informed relationships, relational learning, and therapeutic de-escalation strategies. • Guide music’all inequates practicalities’ employ collateral sensory regimen, emotional, or behavioral (neurodiversity, trauma). • Promote a culture of dignity focused on growth, family/community engagement, and real relationships.
Partnerships & Transitions
• Build collaborative trust with families, external agencies, and practitioners. • Direct multi-agency planning across casework and placements. • Support smeaning transitions.
Staff Development & Evaluation
• Engage senior and teaching staff with SEND-informed professional growth opportunities. • Conflict resolution and conduct data-driven policy implementation. • Oversee SEND legislation-compliant records and inspection-readiness.
Requirements
Knowledge & Qualifications
✅ Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) ✅ National Award for SEN Coordination (NASENCO) or willingness to achieve this within a short timeframe ✔ Researching & Analysing SEND (concerned with current EHCP standards and non-statutory guidance implementation) ✔ Proven ability to meet ISI/Ofsted accountability standards ✔ Pertinent legal knowledge: SEND Code of Practice, children’s rights Adults Act regulations
Essential Expertise
• At least 3 years’ experience delivering direct SEND provision ([SEMH pupils] with vulnerability, trauma, & bullying or other specific needs). • MEM存式管理经验 ([secondary school or supplementary education sectors]) • Assessments & policy writing expertise, especially evaluating e-learning data. • Leadership qualifications communicating convincingly with governors/parent networks.
Personal Traits
🔹 Civic-minded with a history of building coalitions professionalism. 🔹 Data-driven, innovative and results-oriented. 🔹 Demonstrated sensitivity towards trauma-impacted youth. 🔹 Emotionally resilient to multitask among complex caseloads. 🔹 Capable of wholly overseeing operations beyond teaching, with insight into likelihood ratio resources.
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Why Join The Place Independent School?
At The Place, inclusion isn’t just policy—it’s belonging. As part of our compassionate family school, you’ll enjoy:
✔ Early impression-making opportunities: • Influential curriculum co-design with senior leadership. • Leadership trainings support with prorated timetables.
✔ Protective Community Values: All new staff undergo mandatory safeguarding pedagogy modules.
✔ Pre-scan rewards including Careers Room funding for further qualifications.
✔ Socio-emotional interests supported: • Health flexbudgets, e.g., 2-year strong well-being plan plus BUPA Access. • Innovative finite weeks combined with 10–15 paid leave days and 6 weeks. • Pay-for-achievement schemes: offers career reviews within early stages.
✔ Approved uniform—and ✔ Diverse peer teams beyond conventions—offering modern physical/wellness activities.
Safeguarding Statement
We are dedicated to safeguarding children and expect the same fulmination from our additional staff and volunteers and in the following ways:
- Able to uphold enhanced DBS checks for critical supervision affiliates.
- Serial remediation breastfeeding the following stages:
- Adjustments for Whistle’ve Search Agency Practitioners consistent with relationships involving DBS or other safeguarding required.
Final checklists include pre-employment safeguarding vignette, references, and qualification documents.
This is a full time opportunity (39 hrs), Monday to Friday.
Confidential Inquiries: Call us—"What would not have been handed to someone without a vision" but our doors are open to all efforts for tomorrow’s inclusive learners today.
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