SENDCo - Lead Practitioner
Westborough High School
Kirklees
- £56,593 - £60,943 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership L6-L9
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 1st September 2025
- Apply by:
- 14 March 2025
Job overview
SENDCo – Lead Practitioner
Lead Practitioner Scale L6 - L9 (£56,593 - £60,943)
Start: 1st September 2025
Westborough High School is a caring, vibrant and happy learning community. We value all our staff and work together to make a difference to children’s lives.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an inspirational leader of SEND in our school and continue to shape the future of SEND provision at Westborough. This vacancy will suit an expert teacher, or existing SENDCo or SENCo who is ready to continue to shape the future of SEND provision at Westborough.
Westborough has a strong and stable staffing platform and a reputation for strong, inclusive practice. We can develop staff whatever their career stage. You are warmly welcome to a visit with senior leaders or the headteacher.
Following the Section 8 Ofsted inspection in June 2022, Westborough continues to be a good school and ‘leaders are ambitious’ for the pupils. There is a real team approach at Westborough, where everyone, no matter what their role in school is, wants the ‘best’ for pupils. Ofsted were very complimentary about the culture of the school, describing it as, ‘welcoming and inclusive.’
Applications are welcomed from candidates who:
- Consistently deliver highly effective lessons
- Have experience of planning a broad, structured and coherent curriculum
- Have experience of developing effective teaching resources and strategies
- Have the skills and energy to inspire, lead and motivate others
As a valued member of our school we can offer:
- Clear and shared values and expectations
- A commitment to tailored professional development
- A stimulating work environment
- An experienced, highly committed and support leadership team
If you want to work with us on our journey to excellence, then we would like to hear from you.
The closing date for applications to be returned is 9.00 a.m. on Friday 14 March 2025 and completed applications should be returned to Fiona Sharp, PA to the Headteacher at the school or via email fsharp@w-h-s.org.uk (CVs will not be accepted.) Interviews are likely to be w/c 17 March 2025.
How to apply:
Please find and download our application form via the apply now button.
Based on the quality and quantity of applications received, Westborough High School reserves the right to interview sooner than the specified dates above. Applicants will be notified of this where possible. Therefore, early applications are encouraged.
We look forward to welcoming your application and if you require any further information about the role, please contact the school on telephone: 01924 469549 or you can visit the school website at www.w-h-s.org.uk
Westborough is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its young people and expects all workers, volunteers and employees to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be appointed subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks including references and satisfactory Enhanced Criminal Records with Children’s Barred List Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS.)
Where a role involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children, it is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. This is a position working in regulated activity and therefore exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
All shortlisted candidates will be subject to online searches as part of due diligence checks and in accordance with KCSIE 2024 and are required to complete a self-declaration form prior to interview.
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About Westborough High School
- Westborough High School
- Stockhill Street, Dewsbury
- West Yorkshire
- WF13 2JE
- United Kingdom
Westborough High School is an 11-16 school with 950 pupils and around 140 staff. We are a caring, lively and vibrant learning community. Staff enjoy working at Westborough and are passionate about improving the educational experience of pupils. Respect, kindness and honesty are at the heart of the school. We work together to succeed and collaboration is central to our success.
Headteacher
Jennifer Cass
Our Location:
We are situated close to the M1 and M62 motorway networks providing easy access to the towns and cities of Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Wakefield and Halifax, yet close enough to be able to take advantage of the beautiful Yorkshire countryside. There is a train station a 20 minute walk away with regular services to Leeds, Huddersfield and Manchester.
Our Partnership:
Westborough High School has a Trust status bringing together Westborough with our partners The University of Huddersfield, Kirklees College and Kirklees Council to form a ‘Partnership of Strengths’.
What are the benefits?
- Our trust partners all have an interest in the development and education of the wider community which mirrors Westborough’s vision and aims.
- Westborough enjoys more flexibility – We are able to set our own admissions criteria (in accordance with the admissions code), employ our own staff and have responsibility for our school land and buildings.
- We are better able to support children and young people’s all-round development, helping to tackle issues of deprivation and social exclusion
- We are better placed to develop new and existing long-term partnerships.
- We gain access to the experience and expertise of our partners.
- We benefit from strengthened governance and leadership skills.
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