Job title and organisation: Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENDCo) - Pudsey - Pudsey Lowtown Primary School
Salary: MPS/UPS (plus SEN allowance)
Hours: 0.60 FTE / 3 Days per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Pudsey Lowtown Primary School, Kent Road, Pudsey, LS28 9BB
Closing Date and Time: Friday 17 April at 12 Noon
Start Date: September 2026
Our Vision
At Pudsey Lowtown Primary School, we are committed to creating a safe, inclusive, and stimulating learning environment where every member of our community is valued and respected.
Our core values of respect, empathy, responsibility, honesty, resilience, and tolerance - are embedded in all aspects of school life. We are committed to providing an exciting, relevant, challenging and engaging curriculum tailored to meet the needs of every child.
We are a school that is fully inclusive, ambitious, and aspirational. We believe in making a tangible difference in the lives of our learners, and we want a SENDCo who shares that "professional curiosity" to drive new initiatives forward.
Why Join Our Team?
Our school is a calm, well-ordered environment and we have high expectations for all our pupils and staff. We can offer the successful candidate:
- A supportive environment:a Headteacher and welcoming staff team who have a genuine passion for SEND and are accustomed to implementing new approaches and initiatives to meet diverse needs.
- Motivated pupils and supportive families with strong community links.
- A positive and collaborative working environment.
- A commitment to professional development and career progression.
- A vibrant school with high aspirations for all
- Collaborative networks - benefit from strong links within the Pudsey Cluster, providing a built-in support network of fellow SENDCos.
- Established systems - a well-established, rigorous record-keeping system is already in place.
- Flexibilityaround worked days to accommodate essential external training and local authority meetings.
The Role
As a key member of our team, you will oversee targeted provision for children with additional needs, vulnerabilities, or barriers to learning.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Leading on SEND policy and practice in conjunction with all stakeholders.
- Preparing statutory paperwork and making appropriate external referrals.
- Working closely with professionals and supporting our highly engaged parent community.
- Supporting staff with Quality First Teaching, ensuring classroom adaptations are both effective and inclusive.
Note: This role includes a small teaching commitment in EYFS or KS1 to support the early identification of pupil needs.
About You
We are looking for an inspirational champion of inclusion who understands how SEND pupils can thrive within a mainstream classroom.
Essential Criteria:
- Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
- The National Professional Qualification (NPQ) for SENDCos (or the NASENCo if completed/started before Sept 2024). We also welcome applications from those willing to complete the NPQ within three years of appointment.
- Evidence of experience in team leadership and the implementation of SEND policies.
- Proven inspirational and skilled classroom teacher and teacher of students with SEND
- A champion of inclusion and demonstratable passion for supporting children with identified SEND
- A clear understanding of how young people with identified SEND can be supported to achieve in the mainstream classroom
- A sound knowledge of Child Safeguarding and the SEND Code of Practice.
- The ability to use data analysis to review EHCPs and inform future provision.
- Flexible approach and the ability to adapt to change
Prospective candidates are welcome to visit our school, please email recruitment@pudseylowtown.org.uk or call 0113 2567303 to arrange a visit.
To apply:
Please visit the Teaching Vacancies website and complete your online application - Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENDCo) - Lowtown Primary School - Teaching Vacancies - GOV.UK
Completed application forms should be submitted by 12pm on Friday 17th April 2026.
Interviews are scheduled to be held on Thursday 30th April 2026.
A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check against the Children’s barred list will be carried out on preferred candidates. Read our recruitment of ex-offenders policy.
We welcome applications from everyone and actively seek a diverse range of applicants from all backgrounds and cultures. We particularly encourage applications from, but not limited to, women, carers, veterans as well as LGBT+, ethnically diverse, disabled and care experienced people.
This role is based in the UK. Home Office guidance states that candidates must evidence their right to work in the UK prior to commencing employment, either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa.
If you do not have the right to work in the UK, you must consider your own eligibility for sponsorship for a particular role through the Skilled Worker visa route before applying. To be eligible for sponsorship you'll usually need to be paid the standard salary rate of at least £41,700 per year or meet one of the other eligibility criteria. Please ensure you are eligible before applying.
The above post is not a Leeds City Council vacancy and has been advertised on behalf of the relevant organisation. To apply please follow their application instructions.
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