SENDCo
Nicholas Chamberlaine School
Warwickshire
- £32,916 - £51,048 per year
- New
- Salary:
- MPS/UPS + TLR2d
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January/April 2027
- Apply by:
- 20 November 2026
Job overview
Nicholas Chamberlaine School is a welcoming and inclusive secondary school located in the heart of the United Kingdom. We are committed to providing an excellent education for all our students, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). We are currently seeking a passionate and dedicated Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Coordinator (SENDCo) to join our team.
Position: Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Coordinator (SENDCo)
Location: Nicholas Chamberlaine School, UK
About the Role:
As SENDCo at Nicholas Chamberlaine School, you will play a key role in supporting students with additional needs to achieve their full potential. You will work closely with teachers, parents, and external agencies to ensure that appropriate support is in place for every student requiring it. This is an exciting opportunity for someone looking to start or develop their career in special educational needs coordination within a supportive environment.
Skills and Qualifications:
- A strong commitment to supporting children with special educational needs.
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team.
- Organisational skills with attention to detail.
- Willingness to learn about SEND legislation, assessment processes, and intervention strategies.
- Basic IT skills for record keeping and reporting purposes.
- Ideally working towards or willing to undertake National Award for SEN Coordination qualification (not essential on application).
Values and Attitudes:
- Empathy towards students facing challenges in learning or development.
- Patience, resilience, and adaptability when working with diverse learners.
- A positive attitude towards inclusion ensuring all pupils feel valued members of the school community.
- Commitment to ongoing professional development related to SEND provision.
- Respectful approach when liaising with families from different backgrounds.
Having researched sufficiently to decide to apply, please tell us in no more than two sides of A4 in 11 point font (1) why you want to join Nicholas Chamberlaine School as a SENDCo and what you see as our challenges (2) why your personal track record matches or exceeds our requirements.
Please include a full CV with the names and direct contact details of two referees (one being your most recent employer) and the completed Safer Recruitment Form. We will contact your referees before shortlisting and may also have a phone call with you.
Applications should be received no later than Friday 20 November 2026 by 9.00am. Completed applications to include a full CV and covering letter should be addressed to Natalie Minty (Head of School) and sent to recruitment@nicholaschamberlaine.co.uk
Interviews may take place before the deadline on receipt of successful application’s. Therefore, we reserve the right to withdraw the advert before the deadline.
If you would like a confidential exploratory call once you have done initial research into Nicholas Chamberlaine School and the Griffin Schools Trust, please email h.yeomans@nicholaschamberlaine.co.uk who will make an appointment.
Attached documents
About Nicholas Chamberlaine School
- Nicholas Chamberlaine School
- Bulkington Road, Bedworth
- Warwickshire
- CV12 9EA
- United Kingdom
Nicholas Chamberlaine School (NCS), named after a local benefactor (1632-1715), opened in 1953 to serve the population of Bedworth. It has always been a comprehensive school in the truest sense which is fully rooted in its community.
NCS is the first choice of secondary school in the town and the largest. Former students include well-known sportspeople and at least one pop star!
We pride ourselves on our arts and sports provision. All KS3 students are provided with an orchestral instrument and peripatetic music lessons. Our orchestra and choir have performed on the most prestigious London stages. Our sports teams enjoy huge success with both boys and girls competing at a high level and we enjoy hosting the annual GST sports festival which brings teams from all schools into fierce competition every September. We take part in several projects such as the Griffin Arts Festival (which takes place over 2 weeks and involves the students); The Shakespeare Schools Festival; National Theatre projects and our own annual school production.
We are a true community of staff who support each other and care deeply for our students and colleagues. We are proud of our school and our Trust and feel privileged to serve such a wonderful community.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Michelle Scott
Executive Head
About the Griffin Schools Trust
The Griffin Schools Trust (GST) is a family of primary and secondary schools in the Midlands, London and South East. We have a strong track record in making schools much better for children and their families and for the staff who work with us. Our single most important mission is to provide the conditions in which children discover who they are and then go on confidently to take their places in society, making a contribution to the world through the use of their talents. We will never prepare children to know their places.
When schools decide to join us they bring their histories to us and together we turn them into traditions reflecting the Trust’s mission and values whilst preserving and extending the each school’s individuality. We offer a rich curriculum and an unusual range of enrichment and extension clubs and activities. We also have shared traditions so that children form every school feel part of the same family. Every summer term we hold the Griffin Arts Festival. In the spring we have Founders Day and the Science Symposium and in the autumn students compete in the Griffin Sports Festival. All these festivals are linked in an annual theme.
Great GST schools have nothing institutional about them and great GST staff are thoughtfully recruited for their excellent knowledge and their broad interests. They are developed by Heads as well as the research and training opportunities offered across the Trust to add their individual magic to the mix. All our schools practice open and distributed leadership and place a high value on creativity as well as growing great talent pipelines to ensure that there are plenty of opportunities for promotion within and beyond the school.
Look at our website and click through to some of the schools as well as the one to which you are applying. We are frequently told that colleagues have found their professional home at GST. Is it yours? We look forward to hearing from you.
Anne Powell
Chief Executive Officer
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