START DATE: APRIL 2026

Simply Education is working very closely with our client to recruit a Full-time SENDCo for their School in the Royston area. The school is an IQM awarded, independent, specialist day school dedicated to providing a highly personalised learning environment for students aged 6 to 19 with a range of complex needs, including Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD), Moderate Learning Disabilities (MLD), Severe Learning Disabilities (SLD), autism spectrum disorders, ADHD, and other associated difficulties.

The school boasts exceptional, fully inclusive facilities, including a Hydrotherapy pool and expansive outdoor learning spaces. We are lucky to have our own full therapeutic team who work closely with class leaders to create a child-centred curriculum that meets the needs of all learners.

Key Duties

• Champion high standards across the setting by contributing to whole-school development activities and professional learning opportunities for staff.
• Work closely with senior leadership to ensure pupils access a stimulating, well-structured, inclusive curriculum that is appropriately adapted and resourced to meet individual needs.
• Support the coordination of assessment and accreditation processes on site, working alongside senior staff and teaching teams to ensure all requirements and regulations are met.
• Oversee the identification of purposeful progression routes for learners beyond compulsory education.
• Coordinate transition planning to future placements, maintaining strong links with external providers and ensuring individual needs are fully considered and supported.
• Lead transition planning at key stages, ensuring pupil perspectives are central and outcomes reflect preparation for adult life.
• Identify and facilitate appropriate adjustments for assessments and formal qualifications where required.
• Ensure learners receive high-quality guidance and preparation for future pathways, working with colleagues to deliver a structured programme that supports progression and independence.
• Ensure statutory duties are met in line with each learner's agreed plans and assessed needs.
• Coordinate and deploy targeted support across the setting, aligning staffing, resources, and approaches with agreed plans and policies.
• Maintain clear and effective communication with families, colleagues, external professionals, and local authorities regarding pupil progress and the impact of support strategies.
• Promote a joined-up approach to additional needs provision, ensuring staff, specialist input, resources, and interventions are effectively aligned.
• Advise and support senior leadership in the ongoing development and review of inclusive practice, policies, and provision.
• Prepare documentation and contribute to formal review meetings and individual planning discussions.
• Build and sustain positive working relationships within the setting, across partner schools, and with external organisations to support continuous improvement.

Essential Qualification

• PGCE with QTS (or equivalent)

Essential Experience

• Proven track record of excellent creative and structured teaching within relevant key stages and/or special needs environment
• Experience of holding responsibility for and turning policy into effective and successful practice
• Leadership of significant area of phase or inclusion, including responsibility for raising standards across the whole school
• Effective team management and working collaboratively and effectively with others.
• Communicating effectively to a wide range of different audiences through a range of different mediums.
• Successful management of complex scenarios and conflict resolution
• Effective relationships working successfully with a range of external agencies

Desirable Qualifications

• Any accredited training in specific areas of special education (Autism, Dyslexia and so forth)
• Management / leadership qualification
• NPQSL/H/SENDCo or willingness to achieve within 2 years

This is no ordinary SENCO role; it is a long-term opportunity that offers the chance to develop valuable, life-long skills.

If you are interested in this role - please feel free to reach out by emailing Ioan on or call 01245 208194.

Alternatively, please apply with an up-to-date CV.

I look forward to hearing from you!