SEND Pupil Pathways Coordinator
Wade Deacon High School
Widnes
- £28,990 - £30,472 per year
- New
- Salary:
- NJC Grade 6, SCP 19-22: £32,061 - £33,699 FTE | Actual salary: £28,990 - £30,472 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 18 March 2026
Job overview
We are looking for a compassionate, organised and proactive individual to join our SEND team as a SEND Pupil Pathways Coordinator. This vital role supports some of our most vulnerable learners by ensuring they receive the tailored guidance, interventions and opportunities they need to thrive.
Working closely with the SENDCo, you will help coordinate Education Health Care Plans (EHCPs), contribute to high-quality support plans, and build strong, positive relationships with pupils, families and external professionals. You’ll play a key role in monitoring progress, supporting transitions, and ensuring every learner has access to the resources, strategies and pathways required to achieve their full potential.
We’re seeking someone who is empathetic, highly organised, and confident in managing a varied and meaningful workload. Strong communication, relationship building and administrative skills are essential, alongside a commitment to safeguarding, equality and pupil-centred practice. If you’re motivated to make a real difference for SEND learners and want to contribute to a supportive, inclusive school culture, we would love to hear from you.
We can offer the successful candidates an opportunity to work with highly trained and supportive staff, as well as a whole school commitment to professional development, since we believe that staff development is a fundamental aspect in raising standards further for our students. Our school community is also a highly rewarding place to work. A comprehensive programme of CPD and a commitment to wellbeing support colleagues at all career stages; through the School and the Trust, we provide excellent career opportunities for our staff. Colleagues seeking a varied, challenging and rewarding career can find this in the Wade Deacon family.
Contract: Permanent, full-time, term-time + 3 weeks.
For further information and to apply, please visit our website via the Apply button.
Closing date: 9.00am on Wednesday, 18 March 2026.
Start date: ASAP
The Wade Deacon Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and is subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory medical clearance.
About Wade Deacon High School
Wade Deacon are an Outstanding 11-16 comprehensive school with over 1600 students on roll. The school is heavily oversubscribed year on year and enjoys an enviable reputation, both locally and nationally. This reputation, and the respect that the local community holds for the school is symptomatic of the fact that they get the basics right: mutual respect and courtesy, exemplary standards across all strands of students’ work and impeccable uniform.
Wade Deacon’s latest 'Outstanding' Ofsted report from November 2022 celebrated the wonderful students, staff and the exceptional school that serves the local community. Inspectors said that students behaved ‘impeccably well’ and that they ‘respect the uniqueness of individual people.’
Wade Deacon pride themselves on the quality and diversity of the curriculum, including personal development and extracurricular provision which not only enable students to enjoy their learning but also allows them to be able to meet the many challenges that they will face in the future, understanding the wider world and their place within it.
Above all else, Wade Deacon believes that every student, regardless of their context or starting point, can and should achieve their full potential.
Wade Deacon is located in Widnes and forms part of the Wade Deacon Trust.
Executive Principal
Mr Brendan Hesketh, BA (Hons), MA
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