Assistant Principal – SENDCo (with other responsibilities)

Please note: This role commences in September 2026

About The Role

Avanti Meadows is seeking a committed and experienced Assistant Principal – SENDCo to join our senior leadership team. This is a significant leadership role with responsibility for shaping and driving inclusive practice across the school, ensuring that all students, particularly those with SEND, receive a high-quality and well-coordinated education.

You will lead on strategy, systems and provision, while maintaining a strong operational presence to ensure that support is effective, consistent and impactful.

Working closely with the Head of School and senior colleagues, you will have the opportunity to influence whole-school priorities, develop staff expertise and embed strong practice in classrooms. You will oversee identification, intervention and progress, ensuring that provision is both ambitious and responsive to students’ needs. This role offers real scope to refine and strengthen existing systems, build capacity within the team and drive measurable improvements in outcomes.

What will you do?

• Provide strategic leadership as Assistant Principal and SENDCo, leading inclusive practice and ensuring high-quality provision and outcomes for students with SEND.
• Oversee identification, assessment, intervention and progress tracking for students with additional needs, working closely with staff, families and external agencies.
• Lead, develop and manage the SEND team, ensuring effective use of resources, strong staff practice and compliance with statutory requirements.
• Promote a culture of high expectations, inclusion and achievement, ensuring all students are supported to succeed academically and personally.

Why should you apply?

Avanti exists to help each person become a well‑rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.

Benefits

• Great opportunities for professional development
• Teacher pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
• O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
• Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
• Well‑being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
• Cycle‑to‑work Scheme

Qualifications and experience

• The ability to lead and manage the school team effectively and efficiently and work with other professionals and agencies
• Communication skills, oral, written and presentational
• Qualified Teacher Status
• How to plan, deliver, monitor and evaluate lessons and learning as part of the school curriculum
• Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students

Pre‑employment checks

Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re‑checks.

Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre‑employment checks.

Diversity and Inclusion

We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.

Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.