Lead SENDCo

Job Description

Lead SENDCo

Salary: L8 - L12 (£59,167 - £65,286 per annum)

Job type:
Full-time, Permanent

Start date:

September 2026

This is an exciting opportunity for a dedicated professional to lead and coordinate SEND provision across multiple settings, ensuring outstanding support for students with additional needs. We are seeking a passionate and experienced Lead SENDCo across our community of 3 schools which will allow you to carry out the duties as the designated SENDCo in Outwood Academy Ripon alongside supporting the other 2 academies in our community.

As the Lead SENDCo across three academies, you will play a strategic role in shaping and implementing a unified approach to SEND provision, ensuring consistency and excellence across all schools. You will work closely with academy principals, SENCOs and support staff to develop and deliver high-quality inclusive practices, while also providing expert guidance on interventions, funding applications, and compliance with statutory requirements.

By fostering collaboration among the academies, you will create an integrated support network, enhancing the educational experience and outcomes for all students with additional needs.

• Lead and coordinate SEND provision across multiple settings, ensuring outstanding support for students with additional needs.
• Satisfy the duties as the designated SENDCo in Outwood Academy Ripon while supporting the other 2 academies in the community.
• Shape and implement a unified approach to SEND provision, ensuring consistency and excellence across all schools.
• Work closely with academy principals, SENCOs and support staff to develop and deliver high-quality inclusive practices.
• Provide expert guidance on interventions, funding applications and compliance with statutory requirements.
• Foster collaboration among academies to create an integrated support network.

Are you ready to lead with impact? You will join a dynamic and inspiring Senior Leadership Team and together will empower a talented staff community to drive our vision:
Students First. Our leadership is rooted in the belief that every child deserves a world-class education. We maintain a relentless focus on excellence and we pride ourselves on a culture of deep inclusion and unwavering ambition.

We are a unique collective of three distinct academies—
Outwood Academy Ripon, Outwood Academy Easingwold, and Outwood Academy Normanby
—functioning as a unified network where collaboration and innovation are our daily practice.

By joining our North Yorkshire and Normanby community, you gain exposure to three remarkably different educational landscapes, offering a breadth of experience rarely found in one role:

• Outwood Academy Ripon:
  Set in a historic market town, navigating a competitive local landscape alongside a traditional grammar school.
• Outwood Academy Easingwold: A school at the heart of a beautiful, rural setting with its own unique community needs.
• Outwood Academy Normanby: A true neighbourhood school where the majority of students live within a mile, fostering deep local roots.

• Unrivaled
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Work across a network that shares resources, ideas, and support.
• Career Versatility:
  Develop your skills in rural, urban, and competitive town settings without leaving the trust.
• Student-Centric Mission:
  Help students thrive by tailoring excellence to their specific environments.

The Trust embraces the opportunity to ensure that all children, irrespective of their starting point, receive an excellent education. It relishes the opportunity to be part of the much needed regeneration of the areas it works in. It is one of the largest MAT’s in the country and with that, our academies can draw on a range of expertise. The Trust also works across geographical communities with Outwood Academy Ripon being part of a community of 3 secondary schools in North Yorkshire and Redcar & Cleveland.

Senior leaders from the schools work closely together, sharing best practice and supporting one another to ensure continuous and never-ending improvement for…