SENCO (Senior Management Team) Maternity CoverEDV/2026/GC/25461

About This Role: Maternity Cover, Term Time Plus 10 Additional Days, Monday - Friday, 37.5 Hours Per Week, 12 month fixed term. Grace College has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our Senior Management Team to help us deliver an even better service to the staff and students. We aim to enhance support for SEND students by adopting an innovative and effective approach, ensuring all students reach their fullest potential through the very best adaptive and quality‑first teaching and, where appropriate, tailored individual provisions.

Responsibilities:

• Support staff can provide excellent classroom support for students.
• Ensure teaching staff are leaders of learning for all students and plan learning so that students can engage fully.
• The SEND team develops and evaluates effective interventions.

This role demands a deep understanding of students on the SEND register and a commitment to being or becoming highly qualified on pedagogical training for various specialist needs. The successful candidate will be a people person capable of ensuring all staff feel able to support students with a wide range of needs. They must be able to communicate competently and sensitively with parents, and be intuitive to the needs of students and able to find solutions to support students with complex needs. They will be firm yet understanding with students who are struggling to regulate, providing a calm and safe environment to enable all students to thrive through the delivery of high‑quality provision which aims to ensure all students can remain in the classroom with their teacher.

The role will demand excellent classroom management skills which seek to support and encourage students, whatever their ability or stage of learning, so that the successful candidate can role‑model these to other staff. They will also need to be a strong team player and work collaboratively with a variety of members of staff. Whilst relevant experience and qualifications are valuable, we place significant value and importance upon personal qualities and convictions that align with this demanding role. There is no requirement that individual members of staff should be Christians, but it is essential that all staff understand and enthusiastically support our mission, ethos and values.

Benefits:

• Defined benefit pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Free parking
• Access to our exclusive Benefits Hub
• Employee‑centred and family‑friendly policies and practices that support you in and beyond the workplace
• Enhanced sick pay, maternity leave and paternity leave (dependent on length of service)
• Competitive holiday entitlement for support staff (minimum 25 days, plus bank 8 holidays per annum, pro‑rated for part‑time post‑holders)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Funded eye tests and glasses for DSE users (subject to Terms & Conditions)

Grace College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Where the post is engaged in regulated activity, and/or an opportunity for contact with children, the position will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. In addition, as part of the shortlisting process, and in accordance with statutory guidance, we may carry out an online search (for publicly available material) to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened which we may want to explore with shortlisted applicants at interview.