SENDCo
St James Senior Girls' School
London
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive package dependent on experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01 September 2026
- Apply by:
- 18 June 2026
Job overview
St James Senior Girls’ School is seeking a dedicated SENDCo to join our team to play a vital role in promoting the welfare, safety, and success of our pupils.
Rooted in the school’s ethos of care, respect, high expectations, and inclusion, this role is central to ensuring every young person feels safe, supported, and able to thrive both academically and personally. The postholder will deliver targeted, tiered, and coordinated interventions for pupils with a range of needs, including those experiencing mental health, social, emotional, or behavioural challenges that impact engagement with learning.
Working closely with pupils, families, teaching staff, and external agencies and professionals, the role focuses on cultivating a positive environment, improving our SEND provision, and ensuring the right support is in place for pupils to access education and achieve their potential. Listening to and amplifying the pupil voice is a key part of shaping positive experiences and outcomes at St James Senior Girls’.
As SENDCo, the postholder will lead SEND across the school. Responsibilities include responding to safeguarding concerns, maintaining accurate and confidential records, liaising with external agencies, and ensuring statutory safeguarding duties are met in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).
This role combines hands-on pastoral support with strategic and statutory safeguarding responsibilities, requiring a proactive, resilient professional who shares the school’s commitment to putting young people’s wellbeing, safety, and dignity at the heart of everything we do.
St James is a thriving and happy school where there is a strong emphasis on the education of the whole person, which includes the development of moral and spiritual values. Commitment to the ethos of the school and the ability to work within a team are essential.
St James is on an attractive site in Central London, by Kensington Olympia, with its own salary scale.
To apply for this role, please click Apply to complete our online application form.
Your completed application form must be sent to: recruitment@stjamesschools.co.uk
We will not accept any applications without a completed application form.
Closing date: Midday on Thursday, 18 June 2026.
Interviews will be held week commencing Monday, 22 June 2026.
The School reserves the right to offer the post at any stage in the recruitment process.
St James Schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure & Barring Service.
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About St James Senior Girls' School
St James Senior Girls’ School is a two-form entry school, welcoming girls into Year 7 from our own Prep School alongside those who transfer from other schools following the 11+ process.
We offer an enlightened education that nurtures mind, body and spirit, all within a happy environment where learning and personal development go hand-in-hand. Our broad curriculum and wide range of additional learning opportunities are designed to challenge the bright young minds in our care and to provide them with the means and encouragement to pursue their individual passions.
Our teachers are, first and foremost, specialists in their subjects, but they are also dedicated to supporting the wellbeing and development of our pupils. Positive relationships permeate our school, and we are proud of the camaraderie that exists amongst the pupil body and between students and staff. Pupils grow to become well-rounded, self-confident individuals during their time with us, emerging with a strong sense of their own unique strengths and talents, and equipped with a blend of academic, spiritual and emotional intelligence. They say that they value the sense of community in school and credit the clarity of teaching, encouragement and support for their success.
We support our pupils’ emotional wellbeing through a focus on mindfulness and by fostering a positive school atmosphere built on mutual respect and trust. It is an approach that results in young women who balance academic achievement with emotional resilience, who are self-disciplined and self-aware but also socially confident and blessed with generosity of spirit, secure in themselves and ready to take their place in the world.
Mindfulness, drawing on the traditions of meditative practice, is deeply integrated into our school life as a valuable and effective way to instil calm, bring focus to studies, and help with an understanding of the great questions of human existence. Before and after every lesson, pupils observe a brief period of silence during which they can prepare themselves to be receptive to the next event or activity. We also allocate five-to-ten minutes at the beginning of the day and after lunch to ‘Quiet Time’, providing the school with an opportunity to pause amidst the business of everyday life.
St James has its own salary scale and we are members of the TPS. Teachers enjoy free refreshments and lunches as well as access to confidential well-being/life-coaching.
The St James Schools were founded in 1975. The Prep School and Senior Girls’ School share the same site at Olympia and the Senior Boys’ School is located in Ashford, Surrey.
We were inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate in February 2024 and you can view the report on the school website by following this link: https://www.stjamesschools.co.uk/seniorgirls/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/03/St-James-Senior-Girls-School-ISI-Report-March-2024.pdf
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